French Revolutions

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
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
Rosetta star Emilie Dequenne is the lead in André Téchiné's rich, provocative drama about surviving the tensions of contemporary French life.
French Revolutions
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
How one of France's great directors nearly made a visionary masterpiece: a revealing documentary about a legendary catastrophe of French cinema.
French Revolutions
A passionate tale of a bourgeois wife and mother's flight from her respectable life.
French Revolutions
The fascinating life of Michel Vajour, perpetrator of France's most audacious prison escapes, told in his own words.
French Revolutions
Romain Duris is magnetic as an angst-ridden outsider in Patrice Chéreau's taut psychological drama, also starring Charlotte Gainsbourg.
French Revolutions
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.
French Revolutions
An affectionate but revealing portrait of filmmaker Michel Gondry's aunt.
French Revolutions
French Revolutions
Director Claire Denis is on mesmerising form, directing Isabelle Huppert in a drama about a woman struggling to survive in an African revolution.

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