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Nerve-wracking twists, remarkable stardom and jet-black comedy: the 5 best films of the 2025 French Film Festival

Nerve-wracking twists, remarkable stardom and jet-black comedy: the 5 best films of the 2025 French Film Festival

These five captivating films offer a snapshot of the very best of contemporary French cinema

25.03.2025 10

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Ben Mccann

Children of Paradise is the greatest film to come out of France, even 80 years on

Filmed as war raged across Europe, Children of Paradise is a masterpiece: a nostalgic love letter to Paris, the theatre and the spirit of resistance.

09.03.2025 10

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30 years ago, Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction shook Hollywood and redefined ‘cool’ cinema

What might be the most seismic moment in American cinema? Film “speaking” for the first time in The Jazz Singer? Dorothy entering the Land of Oz?...

13.10.2024 5

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Happy Father’s Day, Daddy Pig – despite your faults, you’re TV’s greatest dad

The children’s show Peppa Pig, first screened in the United Kingdom in 2004, is now broadcast in more than 170 countries and has become a billion-...

29.08.2024 1

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Alain Delon was an enigmatic anti-hero , and France’s most beautiful male movie star

Alain Delon’s death at the age of 88 brings down the curtain of one of postwar European cinema’s most important film stars. Known for his striking...

19.08.2024 20

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Farewell Gena Rowlands, the formidable actress whose characters always seemed to be tipping into madness

Gena Rowlands, who has died at the age of 94, was a highly respected actor, with a fierce, edgy, often emotionally unstable on screen presence. She...

15.08.2024 10

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Ben Mccann