Brought to the screen before in Chabrol’s La cérémonie, devilishly adept genre filmmaker Ozon adapts crime novelist Ruth Rendell in this stylish erotic thriller. Starring Romain Duris, The New Girlfriend is a complex melodrama with a pulp double-plot, elegantly interrogating gender roles.
Wander through Paris’s mesmerizing museums with Bertrand Bonello in this never-before-seen version of Antoine Barraud’s Le dos rouge. There, the French filmmaker roams in search of monstrosity, and shares the screen with some of France’s finest actors, including Jeanne Balibar and Alex Descas.
The third of a very fruitful on-going collaboration between French director Benoît Jacquot and young actress (and great director in her own right) Isild Le Besco, this gorgeous black and white paean to a post-New Wave era is an excited and poetic exploration of a youthful, searching free spirit.