Film

Listings and reviews of English-language films showing in Paris

Star Wars Episode 1: the Phantom Menace

Can 3D save Lucas's much maligned prequel?
Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman smokes out a double agent in this terrific Cold War spy thriller
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

David Fincher's take on Stieg Larsson’s much-read novel delivers
Shame

Courageous and probing investigation into the extremes of human behaviour from artist Steve McQueen
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The Black Power Mixtape

The front line struggles of the US civil rights movement between 1967 and 1975 are depicted in this fascinating documentary collage. The turbulent era is presented through the eyes of Swedish television journalists, whose mandate was to discover ‘the real America’. The footage is vivid and sensational, especially scenes of rousing speeches by the likes of Stokely Carmichael, Huey P Newton and Louis Farrakhan. Even the news broadcast inserts – clamorous street scenes and...

Tue Feb 14

Take Shelter

Cinema’s response to the recent economic slowdown has ranged from the obvious – worthwhile fingerpointing docs like ‘Inside Job’ and ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ – to the oblique, with films as diverse as ‘The Social Network’ and ‘Arthur’ exploring ideas of money, power and privilege. But it’s hard to recall a film which presses its finger quite so firmly on the pulse of middle-class, middle-American desperation as this striking second feature from Jeff Nichols, whose solid indie...

Tue Feb 14

Attenberg

This eccentric and, in turn, annoying and captivating Greek meditation on the weirdness of human behaviour comes from the same experimental camp as 2009’s ‘Dogtooth’ – a funny and disturbing film about two parents who shelter their kids from the outside world. That film’s director, Yorgos Lanthimos, pops up here as an actor, and its producer, Athina Rachel Tsangari, is the writer-director of ‘Attenberg’, whose title comes from the pleasure Marina (Ariane Labed), a permanently...

Mon Feb 13

L'Exercice de l'Etat

Political drama following Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, as he struggles to cope with personal problems and the darker side of being in a position of power.

Sun Feb 12

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

Many questioned director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson’s decision to render Hergé’s classic series of comic-book Boy’s Own-style adventures in performance-capture animation. But it’s hard to imagine that either live action or traditional animation would have been capable of producing the thrilling blend of high drama, physical authenticity and visual invention found here. Ending a three-year hiatus following his disappointing ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the...