La Vie en Rose
Rental and retail: Marion Cotillard gets right under the skin of the French singer in a remarkable performance
Not Here to Be Loved
Retail: A slight but effective piece by the little-known Stéphane Brizé, this is a French film that seems all too British
4:30
Peter Bradshaw: An intriguing Singaporean film about the twilight hours
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
Philip French: Clearly there's a talent here that's worthy of anyone's attention
The Jane Austen Book Club
Philip French: A self-congratulatory elitist work that echoes, refers to and is inspired by Austen
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
Peter Bradshaw: The Taiwanese (through Malaysian-born) director Tsai Ming-liang is a figure invoked with reverence and with passion by his admirers
Brick Lane
Peter Bradshaw: Sarah Gavron's feature version of Monica Ali's novel represents a modest slimming down of the original's dimensions
Edvard Munch
Retail: Peter Watkins brings his distinctive, documentary-oriented talents to bear on Norway's most famous painter in this 1973 film.
Molière
Rental and retail: A smart and lively romcom which takes the sensible idea of imagining that the French playwright used his own life in his work
In Memory of Me
Peter Bradshaw: After promising much, this leads nowhere, either emotionally or spiritually.
I Do
Philip French: Vaguely misogynistic, vaguely amusing, and wholly uninventive
Water
Retail: Deepa Mehta's well-played tale is full of simmering anger and completes a memorable and impassioned cinematic triptych.
Film fans will always have Paris
We've all been to the French capital, even if we've never travelled there. Movies have implanted it in our minds.
Once
Philip French: Resembling a 90-minute music video, this film has won audience awards at several film festivals with its warm-hearted Celtic charm.
The Witnesses
Philip French: This subtly observed, positive and unsentimental film relates how a tightknit group of French friends reacts to the onset of Aids in 1984-85.