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Cannes film festival 2019: an intriguing lineup, with big-name clout

Asian auteurs bring exciting new work, Céline Sciamma and Mati Diop bring verve to the festival, seasoned directors from Almodóvar to Elia Suleiman add class, and it could all kick off with Maradona

Published: 18 Apr 2019

Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer

The director and star of a drama about the latter years of the cult singer talk about her unusual life and how she battled against her beauty

Published: 25 Apr 2018

Film blog Jean-Pierre Melville: cinematic poet of the lowlife and criminal

The French resistance fighter turned film-maker had an instinctive sympathy for the outsider, and remodelled the crime thriller into something studied, cool and subversive

Published: 8 Aug 2017

5 out of 5 stars.

The Death of Louis XIV review – a quietly amazing portrait of the end of life
5 out of 5 stars.

Jean-Pierre Léaud gives the performance of his career in this powerful, intimate and moving account of the French king’s final days

Published: 12 Jul 2017

Top UK films 2016 The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 4 A Bigger Splash

As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver admires Luca Guadagnino’s unnerving drama of desire and betrayal that boasts remarkable performances

Published: 13 Dec 2016

French cinematographer Raoul Coutard – a life in pictures

The renowned cinematographer who was a key figure in the French New Wave, has died. We look back at his most celebrated collaborations with Truffaut, Godard, and more

Gallery

Published: 9 Nov 2016

A Bigger Splash director: ‘Italian cinema is mostly a bureau for tourism’

Luca Guadagnino’s latest film sees the writer-director reunited with Tilda Swinton, this time playing a recuperating rocker. And while he has fond words for the Rolling Stones, who supply some of the tunes, he’s less forgiving about actors, scriptwriters and the Italian film industry

Published: 4 Feb 2016

Claudia Cardinale: 'I don't want to stop'

Sixties screen siren Claudia Cardinale talks to Steve Rose about entrancing Fellini, spurning Brando – and why appearing in 135 films still isn't enough

Published: 11 Sep 2013

Philip French's film of the week Bonjour Tristesse; Plein Soleil – review

In his final column for the Observer, Philip French welcomes the re-release of two influential classics from the late 1950s

Published: 31 Aug 2013
4 out of 5 stars.

Plein Soleil – review
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 29 Aug 2013
The artwork of the Smiths – in pictures

Gallery

Published: 12 Aug 2013

30 minutes with … Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent'

The star of pop and film talks to Dave Simpson about being cast as a sex kitten of the 60s, drugs, homelessness, and why she will never sell Mick Jagger's love letters

Published: 10 Jan 2013

From hlcarpenter.com archive From the archive, 25 January 1969: French actor Alain Delon held

Originally published in Guardian on 25 January 1969: Alain Delon is to be held for questioning by police who are investigating the murder of his former secretary and bodyguard

Published: 25 Jan 2012

4 out of 5 stars.

La Piscine – review
4 out of 5 stars.

Jacques Deray's languid thriller from 1969 is a tour de force of sexual longing and controlled suspense, writes Peter Bradshaw

Published: 29 Sep 2011

5 out of 5 stars.

The Leopard
5 out of 5 stars.

Luchino Visconti's masterly historical epic, with stars Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale competing with magnificent period set designs, is restored in all its sumptuous glory, says Peter Bradshaw

Published: 26 Aug 2010
Biographical dictionary of film Alain Delon

David Thomson

David Thomson: Tom Ripley has become one of our great modern characters, just as Highsmith seems to be a writer who knew our ambivalence before we'd noticed it. But no one has done Ripley better than Alain Delon.

Published: 19 Aug 2010

Published: 19 Aug 2010

Interview: Jacques Audiard

Jason Solomons talks to one of the greats of French cinema, a director who wants his audience to fly with him

Published: 5 Dec 2009

Pretty crime: French gangster movies

Pyjamas, delightful dinners, some cod philosophy and plenty of ennui . . . there's nothing like a French gangster movie, writes Joe Queenan, as an engrossing new one heads this way

Published: 16 Aug 2009

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