With the 2023 Alliance Française French Film Festival right around the corner, we are helping you curate the ultimate Festival watchlist! We’ve handpicked standout films that are absolute must-sees and destined to be crowd favourites. This year’s exciting line-up boasts another star-studded selection of festival favourites and award nominees including Louis Garrel, Marion Cotillard, Virginie Efira and Jean Dujardin. Read on for unmissable highlights, or visit the Festival homepage and browse dates here.
Premiering at Opening Night of the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2023, Masquerade is sexy and oh-so French – bringing a deadly combination of love, lust and manipulation to the big screen, from the backdrop of the unassuming shores of the dreamy Côte d’Azur.
Emotional, action packed and incredibly moving – November takes a cinematic deep dive into the largest manhunt in European history, following the 2015 terrorist attacks that ravaged Paris. Bear witness to Frances’s top-performing film, from the mind of Cédric Jimenez.
Take the ultimate girls’ trip to the dazzling shorelines of the Greek islands with an all-star cast including Laure Calamy (Full Time), Olivia Côte (Antoinette in the Cévennes) and Kristin Scott Thomas (Final Set). Watch old friendships rekindle as the women learn to move past tragedy and enjoy life again.
Léa Seydoux (Farewell My Queen) stars in Cannes Film Festival Best European Film, One Fine Morning – Mia Hansen-Løve’s beautiful, semi-autobiographical tale of a mother grappling with the needs of her terminally ill father, her daughter and her pull to a great love.
A semi-autobiographical directorial feat from Louis Garrel (A Faithful Man) is The Innocent. Starring as Abel, Garrel delivers an outstanding performance alongside the dazzling Noémie Merlant as Clémence as they navigate love, loss and criminal purists as a family.
From acclaimed documentarian Alice Diop comes the gripping, Prix Louis Delluc 2022 prize-winning film Saint Omer. On a mission to source inspiration for her latest work, journalist Rama (Kayije Kagame) finds herself engulfed in a murder trial – forcing her to evaluate her own upbringing and threatening to turn her world upside down.
