French Revolutions

French maestro Jacques Rivette directs Jane Birkin in a gentle, witty comedy-drama about a woman who returns to a small provincial circus.

French Revolutions

The French Kissers

High-school comedy, French style: comics creator turned director Riad Sattouf scores with a pithy, outrageous saga of acne, snogging and teenage angst.

French Revolutions

The Girl on the Train

Rosetta star Emilie Dequenne is the lead in André Téchiné's rich, provocative drama about surviving the tensions of contemporary French life.

French Revolutions

Hadewijch

Bruno Dumont returns with his most provocative film yet, and arguably his masterpiece: a novice nun tries to reconcile her fanaticism with the outside world.

French Revolutions

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

How one of France's great directors nearly made a visionary masterpiece: a revealing documentary about a legendary catastrophe of French cinema.

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Leaving

A passionate tale of a bourgeois wife and mother's flight from her respectable life.

French Revolutions

My Greatest Escape

The fascinating life of Michel Vajour, perpetrator of France's most audacious prison escapes, told in his own words.

French Revolutions

Persecution

Romain Duris is magnetic as an angst-ridden outsider in Patrice Chéreau's taut psychological drama, also starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.

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Regrets

Cedric Kahn's suspenseful, psychological twist on that staple, the French adultery drama, with Yvan Attal and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi as ex-lovers dangerously reunited.