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The 100 best French films
Musique et cinéma
Jesper Just
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Le Monde enchanté de Jacques Demy

The 100 best French films

Time Out's definitive countdown of the finest French films – as chosen by industry experts
Musique et cinéma

The marriage of the century?
Rated as: 4/5
Jesper Just

Short films by the daring Dane at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Musiquepointdoc

An eclectic selection of music documentaries screened annually at the Gaîté Lyrique
Le Monde enchanté de Jacques Demy

A summer homage to the filmmaker at La Cinémathèque

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Episode six in this overcooked cars ’n’ girls franchise offers no surprises, though Londoners might feel a frisson of excitement when watching their city being trashed and raced around in by V8 saloons and souped-up ‘Mad Max’-style single seaters. It opens with brawny diplomatic security service agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) handing Vin Diesel’s retired con Dom Toretto a dossier. The folder relates to a ruthlessly efficient gang of military equipment hijackers fronted by an

Only God Forgives

Rated as: 1/5

A dread-filled electronic score, neon, zombie-like performances and violent scenes of amputation – all fail to distract from the emptiness and sheer silliness of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bangkok-set, bloody and hilariously pompous revenge yarn ‘Only God Forgives’. It marks the second collaboration (after 2011’s ‘Drive’), between the Danish director and Ryan Gosling. He plays Julian, an American drug dealer in the Thai capital who is drawn into a cycle of blood-letting when his

The Great Gatsby

Rated as: 3/5

‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ showed us that Australian director Baz Luhrmann can throw a hell of a party. Now, after the epic drabness of ‘Australia’ he pulls the stereo out of storage and does it again. The best scene in this fast and furious stab at F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 state-of-the-nation novel comes early, as we gatecrash a wild shindig at the Long Island home of filthy rich Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s wide-eyed poorer neighbour Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) cuts

Trance

Rated as: 3/5

That Danny Boyle directed a film amid preparations for last year’s mammoth Olympic opening ceremony is impressive enough; that it’s his sleekest outing yet is at least as brain-boggling as ‘Trance’ imagines itself to be. If Christopher Nolan had much feeling below the waist he could have cooked up this circuitous, psycho-sexy heist thriller, the engagingly silly plot mechanics of which are tricky to describe without giving the game away.This much you can know: sharp-suited London

Pitch Perfect (The Hit Girls)

Rated as: 3/5

If you want a no-brainer prediction for 2013: stand-up comic and actress Rebel Wilson will be everywhere. She was the weirdo flatmate in ‘Bridesmaids’ and is a writers’s dream: she makes funny funnier. And this college comedy is already pretty funny. It follows the naffest tribe on campus: acappella singers. An all-girl group, The Bellas, are recruiting. What they want are super-hot girls with bikini-ready bodies and perfect pitch. What they get is Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) and

Stoker

Rated as: 2/5

From John Woo (‘Hard Target’) and Wong Kar-Wai (‘My Blueberry Nights’) to Kim Jee-Woon (2013’s ‘The Last Stand’), it seems that every Asian filmmaker (bar Ang Lee) falls flat on their face in Hollywood. But few have fallen quite as far as ‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-Wook, whose English language debut is a clichéd mishmash of gothic fairytale and coming-of-age tale, sporting some cringeworthy performances. Mia Wasikowska is India Stoker, the flighty, cosseted daughter of a wealthy

Evil Dead

Rated as: 3/5

Last year, ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ took to pieces the whole idea of the ‘video nasty’, exposing its glistening innards. Now this reboot of Sam Raimi’s landmark 1981 horror exhumes its disembowelled corpse. Yet despite much old-school splatter, it’s seldom frightening and oddly unfunny. The only hint of the original’s cartoonish sado-slapstick lies in sly glimpses of the implements (nail-gun, chainsaw) that will later pierce, puncture and tear flesh and bone. Of the friends who

Iron Man 3

Rated as: 3/5

Calling ‘Iron Man 3’ a mixed bag doesn’t really do justice to the heady peaks and interminable troughs in this scrappy but overwhelmingly likeable superhero sequel. In the minus column, there’s the tedious, talky first act, the script’s uneasy attempts at psychological realism, Gwyneth Paltrow’s increasingly shrill and redundant Pepper Potts and Robert Downey Jr’s disastrously smarmy, David Gest-like facial furniture. But they’re balanced out by a handful of punchy one-liners

Promised Land

Rated as: 2/5

‘Promised Land’ might have American director Gus Van Sant’s name next to the title, but in the execution it feels like less of a director’s project than films such as ‘Last Days’ or ‘Elephant’. It’s a good-natured but fatally underpowered drama written by actors Matt Damon and John Krasinski, both of whom appear in this story of a global corporation trying to persuade a small Pennsylvania community that what they really need in their lives is a spot of fracking. That’s the

Mud

Rated as: 3/5

The Beach Boys’ feelgood jukebox standard, ‘Help Me, Rhonda’ is played twice in ‘Take Shelter’ director Jeff Nichols’s third feature, amplifying the sense of sunkissed nostalgia present throughout this amiable but over-familiar coming-of-age story – it’s not set in the 1960s, but save a stray mobile phone or two, you could be forgiven for thinking it is. Drawing on a rich tradition of classical American storytelling that runs from Mark Twain to ‘Shane’ to ‘Stand By Me,’ Nichols

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