TROUBLE EVERY DAY
From France , a sexy, gruesome, wildly unconventional vampire movie
THEY CAME BACK
THEY CAME BACK, the directorial debut of Robin Campillo, eschews the flesh eating and intestine pulling of traditional living dead flicks in favor of a more surreal, even satirical approach
DON’T DELIVER US FROM EVIL
This film was banned in France for eight months, and wasn’t distributed in the U.S. until 35 years later. Now that this notorious work has finally been unveiled, the furor is revealed as much ado about very little
PSYCHEDELIC SEX VAMPIRES: JEAN ROLLIN CINEMA
In the absence of a comprehensive English language book (as of 2012, at least) on the French filmmaker Jean Rollin, this lavishly illustrated trifle will have to do
THE DEMON IS ON THE ISAND
Medium-strength French horror from the eighties that’s rather trashy and overwrought, but not entirely unaffecting
DEADLY RUN
A lackluster French thriller notable for its intriguing premise, bequeathed by Marc Behm’s stunning source novel, and an unforgettable performance by Isabelle Adjani
IRREVERSIBLE
An extraordinary piece of “shock art.” It seems curiously appropriate that, in the midst of the rabidly anti-French sentiment that saturated the US in the early 00s, this is the major French movie we got
IN MY SKIN
The year 2003 saw more than its share of nasty films, but I feel confident in naming the French import IN MY SKIN as the year’s all-around nastiest film
A “Lost” Film Found
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE,a French made adaptation of three stories by Ambrose Bierce, is quite simply one of the great unknown masterpieces of world cinema
LA MOUSTACHE
A man loses touch with reality after shaving off his mustache in this French-made excursion in surreal paranoia that’s ominous, unsettling and extremely well acted