Couscous

Philip French's film of the week: In a beautifully filmed movie with exactly the right ingredients, an old man realises his dream of opening a restaurant

Memories of Matsuko

Philip French: It's like a garish collaboration between Robert Bresson and a Japanese protege of Andy Warhol

Memories of Matsuko

Cath Clarke: Tetsuya Nakashima's whimsical tale of a prostitute told in flashback

How was work today, darling? Murder

Philip French: His name is a byword for cruelty, but a biopic of Genghis Khan depicts him as a god-fearing family man with politics akin to Tony Blair's

Sarkar Raj

Phelim O'Neill: There are no good guys to cheer on in this Indian sequel

Mongol

Peter Bradshaw: A huge epic, weighed down with its own ostentatious importance, about Genghis Khan

Jules and Jim – and me

Peter Preston: Truffaut's masterpiece of cinema still seems as fresh and magical as when it first screened

Jules et Jim

Philip French: It's a majestic film, beautifully photographed in black-and-white widescreen by Raoul Coutard

Three’s a crowd

When Germaine Greer first saw Truffaut's Jules et Jim in the early 60s, Jeanne Moreau's Catherine seemed a woman after her own heart, following her desires rather than the rules. Is she still such a role model?

DVD releases

I'm A Cyborg | Before The Devil Knows You're Dead/The Savages

Heartbeat Detector

Steve Rose:Mathieu Amalric stars in this cerebral corporate thriller with a steadily accumulating sense of dread