French Film First
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Film critic Wendy Ide finds Bertrand Tavernier’s documentary on the movies and directors that influenced him – punctuated with insights into how his mentors went about their work – inspiring
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If you know your Godards from your Renos and can reel off all the actors to have played the Maid of Orleans, you’re ready for these 10 teasers
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France has a long history of producing peerless films about education, steering clear of the schmaltz and saintly portrayals often found in Hollywood counterparts. Hélène Angel’s Elementary is an engrossing addition
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A rich cinematic history has grown around the intriguing vineyards of France, but has Cédric Klapisch produced a vintage in his engaging family drama Back to Burgundy?
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Enter this competition for your chance to win a fantastic collection of recent and classic French films from French Film First
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In Nicole Garcia’s new film, Cotillard stars as a postwar Emma Bovary in this tale of doomed romance and self-destruction
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To know cinema, you must know Jean-Luc Godard. With his debut, Breathless, he invented modern film-making; then he joyously took it apart again. “A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end,” he said, long before Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, “but not necessarily in that order.” As BFI Southbank launches a 10-week Godard retrospective, we pick out five of his greatest masterpieces, available in a stunning Blu-ray box set from StudioCanal