French Film Festival 2025 Begins this Week
Some of the highlights of the 33rd edition of the French Film Festival
New Releases
Hedda
Rather like Hedda herself, this is a garish and attention-seeking, yet ultimately soulless creature
Anemone
Daniel Day-Lewis returns in a rough-hewn, gloomy psychodrama directed by first-timer son, Ronan
Marco, the Invented Truth
Brilliant performance anchors this true story but ananswered questions cast a pall over the whole.
The Portuguese House
Stately but thoroughly rewarding film about new beginnings and the healing power of reinvention
Through Rocks and Clouds
Beautiful but overly muted drama sees a familiar battle between tradition and modernity
The Good Manners
Austere Spanish literary adaptation has formal beauty but a certain dramatic lifelessness
Queens
Hugely impressive drama plays out an estranged family’s reconnection against real-world stakes
DVDs
Eureka
A film that plays so apathetically with the concept of abstract art even Kandinsky would be left begging for cogency
