Lea Seydoux

Based on the play of the same name by French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce, Cannes 2016 Grand Prix winner It’s Only the End of the World focuses on 34-year old gay playwright Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), who is visiting his family after a 12-year…

It might not be the end of the world, but for fans of Xavier Dolan, there are moments during his new film where he appears to be close to the end of the road. This marks the Québécois’ sixth film as director, which is no small feat for a…

If you could turn into any animal, what would you choose? An academic question where we come from, in Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ universe it’s a practical matter requiring careful consideration. In his surreal dystopian romantic…

Many would fear to tread where the greats have gone before. Not French director Benoît Jacquot who follows behind Jean Renoir and Luis Buñuel in adapting Octave Mirbeau’s novel The Diary of a Chambermaid. He’ll say his version is very…

Known to some as the winner of the 2013 Palme d'Or at Cannes, known to some as an extraordinary work of art, and known to some as, well, that French film about two young lesbians having lots of sexy times, Blue Is The Warmest Colour is most…

Graphic first love story With the French title, La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2, this film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes after receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from the festival audience and jury. Likewise on its French…

Adele (magnificently portrayed by Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a teenage literature student coming to terms with her sexual identity, as well as who she wants to be in life, when a brief exchange of a glance with striking tomboy Emma (Léa…

The French Connection

High and low: life as a hustle Ursula Meier is a new Swiss director who rejects the glamorous picture of her country as a place of heroic mountain climbers and perfectly functioning watches and rock solid banks. In her world, nothing is…

The Mission: Impossible movie franchise has been a consistently great source of fun for action fans. The first film had a couple of classic set-pieces, the second film may be the weakest of the lot but still had lots of fun moments and the…