Movies

Elle L'Adore

Do you like your comedy black? Really black? If you mean really, really black, this is the film for you; in fact, the first half of the film is essentially a noir-ish thriller

Courted/L'Hermine

See what you've done, political correctness? I can't take a simple plot point like "man reacts to woman doing her job well by becoming romatically obsessesed" at

Macadam Stories/Asphalte

Asphalte (Macadam Stories) begins as an orthodox comedy: opening in the lounge of a decaying apartment block, the residents have squeezed in to vote on replacing the dysfunctional lift out of their own

La Dune

I was a little mislead by the synopsis for La Dune; it sounded like a slightly unorthodox police proceedural. Which, in the narrowest possible sense it is, but that's like handing

Aberdeen

Named not for the Scottish city, but rather the region of Hong Kong; this story of a Hong Kong family: a Taoist priest, long-widowed now with his nightclub-owning girlfriend; their sad, lonely daughter