2014 films

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

Claus Drexel – Au bord du monde
Nicole Garcia – Un beau dimanche
Pawel Pawlikowski – Ida

Un Beau Dimanche

Tizza Covi + Rainer Frimmel – Der Glanz des Tages
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Julie Bertuccelli – La cour de Babel

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Quentin Dupieux – Wrong cops
Spike Jonze – Her
Danis Tanović – An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker

Her

Alain Resnais – Aimer, boire et chanter
Alexander Payne – Nebraska
Michel Gondry – Is the man who is tall happy?

Aimer, boire et chanter

Mizuho Nishikubo – Giovanni’s island
Pascale Ferran – Bird people
Anurag Kashyap – Ugly

Bird People

Yi’nan Diao – Black coal
Shlomi & Roni Elkabetz – Gett, Le procès de Viviane Amsalem
Jonathan Glazer – Under the skin

Black Coal

Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Winter sleep
Olivier Assayas – Sils Maria
Yves Jeuland – Les gens du Monde

Sils Maria

Denis Gheerbrant – On a grèvé
Andreï Zviaguintsev – Leviathan
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy – The tribe

On a grèvé

Nadège Trebal – Casse
Frederick Wiseman – National gallery
Dietrich Brüggemann – Kreuzweg

Kreuzweg

Laurent Bécue-Renard – Of men and war
Ira Sachs – Love is strange
Virgil Vernier – Mercuriales

Mercuriales

Werner Herzog – Les ascensions de Werner Herzog
Abderrahmane Sissako – Timbuktu

Timbuktu