Bruno Dumont’s Ma Loute, in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is an irritating mix of slap-stick comedy, outrageous overacting and surreal imagery underpinned with a dash of social realism. Described as one of France’s most important contemporary film makers, Dumont’s art-house, radical style is certainly not to everyone’s taste. Ma Loute bombards the…
Jean Dujardin is one of France’s most bankable and popular comic actors. From his Oscar-winning performance in The Artist, which gained him entry to Hollywood’s George Clooney-led A-list, to the recent crowd-pleasing Un Plus Une, he often chooses films which play up his cheeky, boyish charm. Un Homme à la Hauteur is no exception and…
French director Arnaud Desplechin, American actress Kirsten Dunst and veteran actor Donald Sutherland have been chosen as members ot this year’s Cannes Film Festival jury under the watchful eye of its president, Australian Mad Max director George Miller. With just days to go before the high-profile festival opens on the French Riviera, other members of…
Director François Desagnat tries to surf the current trend of flat-sharing – a relatively new concept in France, but one that is gaining ground among the younger generation – for his pedestrian comedy which relies on tried and tested formula for laughs. The title is a riff on the name of the popular French dating…