Azur and Asmar (2006)
Jul 1, 2024Animation/Arabian Fairytale
Next to Hayao Miyazaki, Michel Ocelot is the greatest animators of all time but one of the least widely recognised. Here he conducts a beautifully made Arabian fairytale
Artemis Productions
The Incident (2011)
Mar 20, 2018Trapped in an Asylum for the Criminally Insane During a Powercut
From an early script by S. Craig Zahler, later the director of Bone Tomahawk and Riot in Cell Block 99, this is an incredibly brutal and harrowing work about a group of cooks trapped inside an asylum for the criminally insane during a power cut. A greatly overlooked film
How I Became a Super-Hero (2020)
Jul 20, 2023Superpowers Film
The title suggests either a comedic take on the superhero film or a teen film about a kid discovering superpowers. The least thing you expect this to be is a French police thriller about a unit investigating super-powered crimes
The Animal Kingdom (2023)
Feb 24, 2024Human-Animal Mutations
An award-winning and highly acclaimed French film set in a world that is affected by a series of mutations where people are transforming into animal hybrids