by Kathryn Hall My flatmate and I set a house rule to only watch French films while living in Paris, to better ‘immerse’ ourselves in our adoptive land’s language and culture and so on. Though we push it at times, (’Jean Reno’s French, so I guess we can justifiably watch Léon again…’) this has led us to stumble upon a couple of less widely remembered French films. The first was Les Amants du Pont Neuf, directed by Leos Carax – a very late-’80s/early-�...

Eyebrows were raised when the Cinémathèque Française announced its October – January exhibition ‘Brune/Blonde’, so Jen Wallace decided to pay a visit to see if hair in Cinema really was the cultural-talking point that the exhibition claimed it to be. Throughout cultural history, hair is something that has always defined an era and played an important role in more richly developing the physical appearance of any female character. Greek tragedies, Pre-Raphaelite ...

by Jennifer Wallace Parisian landscapes are frequently manipulated by directors to create a self-contained world for the protagonists. In Michael Haneke’s ‘Hidden’, clues to unravelling the mystery of the film are deeply embedded in its location. Jen Wallace visits the Cité florale to unearth some answers. If you were to ask people what films they know that are set in Paris, you’d be sure to come up with popular answers such as ‘Amélie’, ‘Paris Je t’aime�...