Arnaud Desplechin

1960-

Filmography

Key: d = director; w = writer; a = actor; c = cinematographer

I fotografia (1987) [c]

Un monde sans pitié (1989) [w]

La Vie des morts (1991) [d,w]

La Sentinelle (1992) [d,w]

Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996) [d,w]

Esther Kahn (2000) [d,w]

En jouant Dans la compagnie des hommes (2003) [a,d,w]

Rois et reine (2004) [d,w]

Choisir d'aimer (2008) [a]

Un conte de Noël (2008) [d,w]

Jimmy P. (2013) [d,w]

Les Jours venus (2015) [a]

Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (2015) [d]

Les Fantômes d'Ismaël (2017) [d,w]

The very best of French film comedy

Thanks to comedy giants such as Louis de Funès, Fernandel, Bourvil and Pierre Richard, French cinema abounds with comedy classics of the first rank.

The very best period film dramas

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The very best of German cinema

German cinema was at its most inspired in the 1920s, strongly influenced by the expressionist movement, but it enjoyed a renaissance in the 1970s.

Kafka's tortuous trial of love

Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.

The greatest French Films of all time

With so many great films to choose from, it's nigh on impossible to compile a short-list of the best 15 French films of all time - but here's our feeble attempt to do just that.

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Review of The Ghoul

Review of Jeunes filles en detresse

Review of Die Feuerzangenbowle

Biography of Gerard Oury

Review of La Fille au fouet