Gripping, tense and dark the whole duration through, Angel of Mine concludes with an excellent ending, as desperation to be a mother results in a very surprising conclusion. It is astonishing that the film has been based on real life events.Read More »
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A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.Read More »
Ten years after they went their separate ways following the breakdown of their marriage, Jacques makes a sudden reappearance in Mado’s life. Whilst Jacques has been unable to move on and build a new life for himself, Mado has married another man, Stéphane, with whom she has had a son, Paul, now seven years old. It was the tragic death of their child which led to Jacques and Mado’s separation, and it is something which Jacques has been unable to put behind him. When she sees how Jacques and Paul warm to one another, Mado becomes concerned and insists that her ex-partner he should never see her son again. Unwilling or unable to let go of the tragedy that still haunts him Jacques holds a private vigil in the basement of the apartment block where Mado and her family live, just so that he can be near to the little boy who has come to replace the one he has lost…Read More »
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In the 1990s, a South American city is rocked by the imminent outbreak of a plague. While many attempt to flee the city, Dr Bernard Rieux sends his sick wife away and does his best to care for the plague’s victims. The plague means different things to different people: to the doctor, it’s a disease to be cured. To a pair of French journalists, it’s a breaking news story. To religious leaders, it’s punishment for sins. As the sense of isolation and hopelessness grow, Dr Rieux and his associates begin to question their previously-accepted feelings of justice, loneliness, and love. Based upon the novel by Albert Camus.Read More »
Plot: This brooding, enigmatic story won the 1989 Prix George Sadoul at the Cannes Film Festival, in the category “Un Certain Regard,” which focuses on “smaller” films. In the story, Gerard (Jacques Spiesser) and his wife Annie (Sandrine Bonnaire) have made a nice life for themselves on their farm. That life is disturbed by the arrival of Gerard’s older brother Roland (Jean-François Stévenin) – a brother Annie never knew existed. It gradually becomes clear that both brothers had once negligently set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. Roland took all the blame for causing the death, and spent ten years in prison for it. Now he wants Gerard to make those years up to him. Gerard, who up until then had succeeded in putting the incident out of his mind, is now consumed by guilt, and, since he loves both his brother and his wife, doesn’t know what to do about those demands. Not only that, but he is a little bit afraid of Roland. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie GuideRead More »
Marc is in love with Lucien, who’s in love with Suzanne, who’s in love with someone else.
L’amour à l’état brut, avec ses perles et ses cailloux, ses imperfections et ses éclats de vie. Sandrine Bonnaire superbe d’émotion et de vérité.Read More »
After a ten-year-old girl is raped and murdered in a small Brittany town suspicion soon falls on René Sterne, an art teacher who was the last person to see the girl alive. Sterne was once a celebrated artist but he has fallen on hard times and lives with his wife, a nurse whose outgoing personality is the opposite to his own. The only person who is convinced that Sterne is not the killer is Vivianne, the local doctor. Frédérique Lesage, the police officer leading the murder investigation, thinks otherwise. The sudden arrival of a self-loving television journalist, Germain-Roland Desmot, stirs things up even more. It isn’t long before Sterne begins to doubt his own sanity…Read More »
A newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers.Read More »
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In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian who embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father (played with astonishing magnetism by Pialat himself), ineffectual mother, and brutish brother. A tender character study that can erupt in startling violence, À nos amours is one of the high-water marks of eighties French cinema.Read More »