One of the key French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movies of the early Sixties, writer-director Agnés Varda’s essential 1962 film drama Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 [Cléo de 5 à 7] – or portrait […]
Agnès Varda’s 1965 French film Le Bonheur [Happiness] tells the story of a happy carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot) with a wife (Claire Drouot) and a mistress (Marie-France Boyer), both of whom he loves. Writer-director Agnès Varda’s […]
Director Roger Vadim’s starry and atmospheric 1964 film adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play, now re-set in Paris during the summer of 1914, tells the same ten circular thematically interlinked tales of love and seduction. […]
Co-writer/ director Max Ophüls’s 1950 film masterwork is a brilliantly plush, atmospheric and marvellously performed adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play. It is set in a hauntingly atmospheric Vienna in 1900, and is told […]
The 31-year-old writer-director Jacques Demy’s excellent 1962 French New Wave movie is his second feature after his hit debut with Lola (1961). Bay of Angels boasts a spellbinding performance by a startlingly blonde Jeanne Moreau as Jackie […]
Anouk Aimée gives an extraordinary performance as an alluring cabaret singer in debut director Jacques Demy’s 1961 French film delight Lola. The then inspired young French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) director Jacques Demy’s 1961 debut is […]
French director Jacques Demy’s first film made in America and in English is hypnotically compelling and shamefully underrated. Demy reunites with Anouk Aimée, who also plays a character named Lola in his debut film Lola […]
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