2012 movies

Here are my favourite films released in French theatres this year:

Cyril Mennegun – Louise Wimmer
Philippe Lefebvre – Une nuit
Gilles Balbastre + Yannick Kergoat – Les nouveaux chiens de garde
Safinez Bousbia – El Gusto
David Fincher – The girl with the dragon tattoo

Rooney Mara - The girl with the dragon tattoo

Guillaume Brac – Un monde sans femmes
Guy Maddin – Keyhole
Michaël R. Roskam – Bullhead
Joachim Trier – Oslo, August 31st

Un monde sans femmes

Stéphane Lafleur – En terrains connus
Andrey Zvyagintsev – Elena
Paul Lacoste – Entre les Bras
Virginie Despentes – Bye Bye Blondie

En terrains connus

Julie Delpy – 2 days in New York
Fernand Melgar – Vol spécial
Benoît Forgeard – Réussir sa vie
Emmanuel Finkiel – Je suis
Özcan Alper – Future lasts forever

Future lasts forever

Sebastián Silva + Pedro Peirano – Gatos viejos
J. C. Chandor – Margin call
Konstantin Bojanov – Avé
Jonathan Caouette – Walk away Renee

Avé

Tim Burton – Dark shadows
Wes Anderson – Moonrise kingdom
Mohamed Diab – 678
Claudine Nougaret + Raymond Depardon – Journal de France
Leos Carax – Holy motors

Holy motors

Asghar Farhadi – The beautiful city
Xavier Dolan – Laurence anyways
Pascal Bonitzer – Cherchez Hortense
Mamoru Hosoda – Wolf children

Cherchez Hortense

William Friedkin – Killer Joe
Quentin Dupieux – Wrong
John Hillcoat – Lawless

Jessica Chastain - Lawless

Craig Zobel – Compliance
Whit Stillman – Damsels in Distress
Matteo Garrone – Reality
François Ozon – Dans la maison

Greta Gerwig - Damsels in distress

Jaime Rosales – Sueño y silencio
Hong Sang-soo – In another country
Katsuya Tomita – Saudade
Régis Sauder – Être là

In another country

Thomas Vinterberg – The hunt
Rachid Djaïdani – Rengaine
Cristian Mungiu – Beyond the hills
Claude Miller – Thérèse Desqueyroux

Beyond the hills

Sébastien Lifshitz – Les invisibles
Kim Nguyen – Rebelle
Andrea Arnold – Wuthering heights

Kaya Scodelario - Wuthering heights

Miguel Gomes – Tabu
Michel Leclerc – Télé Gaucho

Tabu