In a touching and graceful tale of modern motherhood and romance, Virginie Efira plays a woman of boundless compassion—and is as radiant as ever. Embracing love in various heart-stealing guises, Rebecca Zlotowski’s fifth feature also has a delightful cameo from adoptive Parisian, Frederick Wiseman!
Before he won acclaim for Of Gods and Men, French actor-turned-director Xavier Beauvois scored with this excellent, layered police drama, featuring an award-winning performance from Nathalie Baye.
Between the hit wartime epics Days of Glory (about North Africans fighting for France during WW2) and Outside the Law (Algerians fighting for independence), Rachid Bouchareb made this intimate drama about the 2005 London terror attacks, which won the Silver Bear in competition at the Berlinale.