Opening over the Christmas period, comes one of the crowd favourites at this year’s French Film Festival - Two Tickets to Greece. Imagine a French version of Mamma Mia, exploring the trials and tribulations of friendship instead of a paternal mystery. Three childhood friends – Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte, and Kristin Scott Thomas – take a hilarious trip down memory lane in … [Read more...] about Two Tickets to Greece – Film review
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Silver Rockers – Film review
Based on the real-life story of the Salt and Pepper band, Silver Rockers is a feel-good film, celebrating life at every age. Aspiring rock singer Alex (played by Mathilde Seigner) is at a low point. Caught between her stagnant singing career, family issues and growing debt, she finds herself in desperate need of work and a fresh start. When offered a job teaching retired … [Read more...] about Silver Rockers – Film review
The Godmother – Film Review
The sublime Isabelle Huppert stars in The Godmother, another headliner from this year’s French Film Festival. Huppert plays Patience Portefeux, an underpaid and overworked police interpreter who seizes an opportunity when life throws her a curve-ball. Assigned to a narcotics investigation, Patience listens to bugged phone calls between the Arabic suspects and translates … [Read more...] about The Godmother – Film Review
The Man in the Hat – Film review
There is a good deal of similarity in The Man in the Hat with the comedic turns of Jacques Tait’s Mon Oncle and Mr Hulot silent films of the 1950s and more recently, The Artist. Tait’s films centred usually on an awkward character unwittingly raising havoc wherever he went, resulting in hilarious outcomes. In The Man in the Hat, Ciaran Hinds (of Game of Thrones fame) plays … [Read more...] about The Man in the Hat – Film review
Black Box – Film review
Not to be confused with Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr’s sci-fi horror Black Box also released last year, the slick and tight French thriller, Boite Noire (Black Box), is a must see. Mathieu (Pierre Niney) is a black box analyst with the French civil aviation authority. His superhuman hearing sensitivity enables him to hone in on indiscernible sounds in black box recordings from … [Read more...] about Black Box – Film review