Like pickled eggs and breakfast schooners, the ethos of hard-core drinking tends to be an acquired taste.
Director Alice Winocour’s intimate testimony to courage in the wake of the 2015 Paris Bataclan bloodbath is as unyielding as it needs to be.
For the painter Caravaggio, art is a fiery way of life in these creatively licensed 1600s.
The loopy reveals are progressively anarchic, held together by a cool ensemble cast.
Moving on is an act of will for an Iranian woman breaking free from domestic abuse.
Murder is a fizzy dish for director François Ozon and his chicly energised cast.
How awesome it is to be swept away by cinema, with the totality of which only children and fanatics are capable.
A depressed French woman plays duelling banjos with her batty yet strikingly stylised thoughts.
The bittersweet reconnecting of childhood soulmates wraps an unrealised love story in unanswerable questions.