The festival opens tonight at both the Academy and the Victoria cinemas with L’âge de Raison, a rom-com starring Sophie Marceau and directed by Yann Samuell (Jeux d’enfants). Continue reading French Film Festival 2011

This is, gloriously, that rare thing in documentary: a film as much about the great work of a genius as it is an intimate profile of his life, with his tangled emotions unpicked and his passions dissembled through the art he collected as well as the art he created. Continue reading French FF 2011: L’amour Fou: Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé

The film is essentially a mess, albeit a mildly appealing one—and its strange pacing and incessantly documentary-like camerawork don’t do it any favours. Were it tucked and trimmed a bit around the middle—thereby allowing for a well-rounded dénouement—it would be far a more pleasurable show. Continue reading French FF 2011: Tournée