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
Rhone-Alpes Cinema
Anna M. (2007)
Mar 8, 2008Female Stalker
A standout French-made stalker film that leaves Fatal Attraction in its dust. Isabelle Carré giving a frightening performance as a woman who becomes obsessed with a doctor
Low Life (2011)
Dec 31, 2011French Immigration Nightmare/Cursed Documents
Long-winded French film largely about criticising the country's problematic immigration and asylum seeking system. This also has a B plot about a series of cursed documents
The Swarm (2020)
Jan 2, 2022Woman’s Obsession with Raising Killer Locusts
Not the classic Irwin Allen bad movie but a work of disturbed psychology about a woman who develops an unhealthy obsession with feeding locusts blood and turning them into a killer swarm