French Cinema

François Ozon is an unusually prolific and generally reliable filmmaker, but “Frantz” represents one of his most assured works.

This “Beauty and the Beast” is a majestic triumph of vision and art direction; the sets, trappings, and costumes are wonderfully lush and detailed.

The World War II drama “Come What May” helps humanize and contextualize the French wartime experience.

“Phantom Boy” just might be able to sneak away with an Oscar next year.

How would the world look if the Industrial Revolution never happened? This is exactly what animated “April and the Extraordinary World,” explores.

Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert come together again in an odd film. They go to Death Valley per the request in their son’s suicide note.

The strangely immortal life and art of Florence Foster Jenkins, such as it was, has now inspired a Gallic doppelganger, the title character of Xavier Giannoli’s “Marguerite.”

Screenwriter-director David Oelhoffen thoughtfully but not entirely faithfully adapts Camus’s story as “Far From Men.”

François Ozon is an unusually prolific and generally reliable filmmaker, but “Frantz” represents one of his most assured works.

This “Beauty and the Beast” is a majestic triumph of vision and art direction; the sets, trappings, and costumes are wonderfully lush and detailed.

The World War II drama “Come What May” helps humanize and contextualize the French wartime experience.

“Phantom Boy” just might be able to sneak away with an Oscar next year.

How would the world look if the Industrial Revolution never happened? This is exactly what animated “April and the Extraordinary World,” explores.

Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert come together again in an odd film. They go to Death Valley per the request in their son’s suicide note.

The strangely immortal life and art of Florence Foster Jenkins, such as it was, has now inspired a Gallic doppelganger, the title character of Xavier Giannoli’s “Marguerite.”

Screenwriter-director David Oelhoffen thoughtfully but not entirely faithfully adapts Camus’s story as “Far From Men.”