France

By Alexa Dalby ★★★, Alexa Dalby, Curzon Home Cinema, France, Germany, On Demand, out now, Reviews, romanceMarch 31, 2021

Undine (2020) – on demand
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By Alexa Dalby ★★★★, documentary, France, Germany, Italy, Mubi, out nowMarch 5, 2021

Notturno (2020) – on demand
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By Alexa Dalby ★★★★, BFI Player, Female Filmmakers, France, Germany, out now, Reviews, sci-fiNovember 19, 2020

Proxima (2019) – On demand
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By Olivia Neilson ★★★★★, France, Olivia Neilson, out now, ReviewsSeptember 11, 2020

La Haine (1995) – new 4K restoration
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By Alexa Dalby ★★★★, Black filmmakers, Cannes Film Festival 2019, France, out now, ReviewsAugust 31, 2020

Les Misérables (2019)
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By Alexa Dalby ★★★, Curzon Home Cinema, France, out now, romanceAugust 21, 2020

Perfumes (2019) (Les parfums)
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By Alexa Dalby ★★★★, France, Italy, out now, Reviews, UKAugust 13, 2020

Pinocchio (2020)
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By Alexa Dalby ★★★★, Algeria, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2019, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Qatar, ReviewsAugust 7, 2020

Papicha (2019) ON DEMAND
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By Alexa Dalby ★★★★, Female Filmmakers, France, Germany, out now, Reviews, sci-fiJuly 26, 2020

Proxima (2019)
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By Alexa Dalby ★★★★★, Cannes, features, France, out now, Palme d'Or, Reviews, UKMay 22, 2020

Cannes Film Festival: Palm Dog of Palm Dogs Award 2020
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★★★, Alexa Dalby, Curzon Home Cinema, France, Germany, On Demand, out now, Reviews, romanceMarch 31, 2021

Undine (2020) – on demand

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Undine by Christian Petzold is a strange, otherworldly, watery romance with unsettling depths.

★★★★, documentary, France, Germany, Italy, Mubi, out nowMarch 5, 2021

Notturno (2020) – on demand

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Filmed over three years in war zones in Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, Notturno (Nocturne) by Gianfranco Rosi is a documentary oddity.

★★★★, BFI Player, Female Filmmakers, France, Germany, out now, Reviews, sci-fiNovember 19, 2020

★★★★☆
The French female astronaut in woman-centred Proxima, directed by Anna Winocour, is torn apart by the conflict between needing the freedom to achieve and the pain of separation from her daughter.

★★★★★, France, Olivia Neilson, out now, ReviewsSeptember 11, 2020

La Haine (1995) – new 4K restoration

By Olivia Neilson

★★★★★
Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine remastered remains a ticking bomb, full of seething energy ready to explode.

★★★★, Black filmmakers, Cannes Film Festival 2019, France, out now, ReviewsAugust 31, 2020

Les Misérables (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Les Misérables is an explosive first feature about simmering racial tensions in a Paris banlieu from Malian-French actor and director Ladj Ly.

★★★, Curzon Home Cinema, France, out now, romanceAugust 21, 2020

Perfumes (2019) (Les parfums)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Charmingly fragrant, very French not-exactly romcom Perfumes by Grégory Magne stars Emmanuelle Devos and Grégory Montel as the autumnal odd-couple.

★★★★, France, Italy, out now, Reviews, UKAugust 13, 2020

Pinocchio (2020)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Matteo Garrone’s surreal live-action fantasy takes the Italian classic Pinocchio disturbingly back to its original dark roots.

★★★★, Algeria, Belgium, Cannes Film Festival 2019, Female Filmmakers, France, out now, Qatar, ReviewsAugust 7, 2020

Papicha (2019) ON DEMAND

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Papicha is a stunning female-centred drama freely inspired, its director Mounia Meddour says, by real events in Algeria in the 1990s.

★★★★, Female Filmmakers, France, Germany, out now, Reviews, sci-fiJuly 26, 2020

Proxima (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The superbly focused French female astronaut in woman-centred Proxima directed by Anna Winocour is torn apart by the conflict between needing freedom to achieve and the pain of separation from her daughter.