Placing Robbe-Grillet's filmic oeuvre in the related contexts of both his novelistic work and the different historical and cultural periods in which his films were made, from the early 1960s to the pr
This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and most recently, The Last Mistress.T
Jacques Rivette is perhaps the best-kept secret of French cinema. A founding figure in the New Wave, and at the centre of the *Cahiers du cinema* team, he developed into one of the most unusual and ad
Laurent Cantet is of one France's leading contemporary directors. He probes the evolution and fault-lines of contemporary society, from the home to the workplace and from the Republican school to glob