Jacques Audiard’s luminous tale of friendship, sex, and romance reunites co-screenwriter Céline Sciamma with her Portrait of a Lady on Fire star Noémie Merlant. Shot in silky black-and-white and set in a diverse area of Paris, this is a tender and hyper-contemporary ode to the city of love.

In this hilarious satire, social contracts are broken and hackneyed forms of entertainment are upended. Corralling a brilliant cast into a boisterous deconstruction of actors’ egos and audience expectations, Quentin Dupieux revels in the insights of an outsider in his latest meta-provocation.

From French king of cool Bertrand Bonello, this endlessly mysterious chiller subverts horror tropes in unexpected ways, fearlessly unleashing suppressed demons. Boasting a sharp political edge, lavish visuals, and an ace synth score by Bonello himself, Zombi Child is a sublime slice of sinuous pulp.