It’s not often that the main character of a movie is so annoying that I just want to slap her legs hard in the hope that she will stop being so irritating, but this is one such case. And in fact now I think about the rest of the cast, I would probably want to slap … Continue reading
I have always loved how French movie makers stretch their imaginations when it comes to dealing with ‘amour’, but using an obsession with chess to help a repressed housewife rekindle her sexuality was just a tad too far fetched for me. Helene is a chambermaid in a luxury hotel in Corsica and after a putting … Continue reading
One of the things I really liked about this quirky Gallic love story was that it was not about a flawlessly perfect beautiful young couple but rather about a painfully shy somewhat ordinary pair in their early/mid forties. It’s the sweet (literally) tale of Angelique a talented chocolatier who is so introvert that any small … Continue reading
Jacques Audiard has followed his 2009 masterpiece, the multi-award winning ‘A Prophet’ with an intense exhilarating emotional roller coaster of a movie that has you sitting right on the edge of your seat throughout the entire 2 hours. Just as you think that life cannot get any worse for the two protagonists, it does … … Continue reading
After the unprecedented success of ‘The Intouchables’ in 2011 which went on to become France’s second biggest grossing movie of all time, filmmaking duo Oliver Nakache and Eric Toledano reunite with their Cesar Winning actor Omar Sy for a new drama/rom-com about un-documented immigration which is a very thorny topic especially in France. Sy plays Samba Cissé a migrant … Continue reading