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Frédéric Bonnaud

Radical Kindness

By Frédéric Bonnaud, translated by Jonathan Robbins
March 12, 2012
The Kid with a Bike leads Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s cinema of gestures and actions out of the shadows

The Amélie Effect

By Frédéric Bonnaud
June 6, 2011
To hear the French tell it, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film hasn't only saved French cinema as we know it, it's saved France. Frédéric Bonnaud rains on the parade

First Look: The Lady and the Duke

By Frédéric Bonnaud
June 6, 2011
Frédéric Bonnaud on Eric Rohmer’s First Digital Feature

First Look: Liberty and Homeland

By Frédéric Bonnaud
June 1, 2011
In his new video essay, Jean-Luc Godard rediscovers the joy of being Swiss

Anti-Social Realism: Jean-Claude Brisseau

By Frédéric Bonnaud
June 1, 2011
Like his other films, Secret Things combines elements of melodrama, fantasy, and social realism, investigates questions of power, class, and sexual politics, and evades clear-cut classification. Welcome to the twisted universe of Jean-Claude Brisseau, one of French cinema’s best-kept secrets.

Review: Battle in Heaven

By Frédéric Bonnaud
June 1, 2011
(Carlos Reygadas, Spain, 2005)

Review: Summer Hours

By Frédéric Bonnaud
May 26, 2011
(Olivier Assayas, France, 2008)
Translated by Paul Fileri