Here are my favourite films released in French theatres this year:
Abel Ferrara – 4:44 Last day on Earth
Laurent Cantet – Foxfire, confessions d’un gang de filles
Malik Bendjelloul – Sugar Man
Ulrich Seidl – Paradies: Liebe
Adam Leon – Gimme the loot
Gérard Mordillat – Le grand retournement
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero dark thirty
Hans-Christian Schmid – Was bleibt
Haifaa Al Mansour – Wadjda
Cate Shortland – Lore
Emad Burnat + Guy Davidi – 5 broken cameras
Markus Imhoof – More than honey
Victor Kossakovski – ¡Vivan las Antipodas!
Harmony Korine – Spring breakers
Samir Benchikh – Sababou
Agnès Jaoui – Au bout du conte
Sólveig Anspach – Queen of Montreuil
Jill Coulon – Tu seras sumo
Nicolas Philibert – La maison de la radio
Jérôme Bonnell – Le temps de l’aventure
Joshua Oppenheimer – The act of killing
Jeff Nichols – Mud
Joana Hadjithomas + Khalil Joreige – The Lebanese rocket society
Manuela Fresil – Entrée du personnel
Carlos Reygadas – Post tenebras lux
Patrick Rotman – Le pouvoir
Paolo Sorrentino – La grande bellezza
Chris Marker – Le joli mai + Lettre de Sibérie
Nouri Bouzid – Millefeuille
Alain Guiraudie – L’inconnu du lac
Marion Vernoux – Les beaux jours
Richard Linklater – Before midnight
Noah Baumbach – Frances Ha
Arnaud des Pallières – Michael Kohlhaas
Anthony Chen – Ilo Ilo
Isabelle Czajka – La vie domestique
Abdellatif Kechiche – La vie d’Adèle
Denis Villeneuve – Prisoners
Edgar Reitz – Heimat
Roman Polanski – La Vénus à la fourrure
Alex Van Warmerdam – Borgman
Edward S. Curtis – In the land of the head hunters
Kaveh Bakhtiari – L’escale
Jia Zhang Ke – A touch of sin
