18 great French films you can't miss

1. Open arms (À Bras Ouverts) (2017)

A comedy by Philippe de Chauveron may seem slight at first glance, but it hides quite deep social questions such as o preconception against immigrants and minorities.

Com muito humor, o film introduces us to Jean-Etienne Fougerole (Christian Clavier), a French intellectual, from esquerda, branco, who is challenged by his political opponent to join his own home, a cigana family. Caused on a national network during a television program, the not seen another saida to not be oiled or challenged.

More than the confrontation of two very different cultures, we attend in Open arms an important debate on racism and xenophobia.

Deeply atual, or film responds to contemporary drama of social exclusion in France - and, generally, in Europe - in a humorous and efficient way.

From open arms is an intelligent production that allows multiple litters of reading.

2. To the Bélier family (La Famille Bélier) (2014)

A family composed of hearing impaired, Paula (Louane Emera), a filha, is the only person capable of hearing. Paula becomes a little chave for the family function: he who serves as a translator of the country (François Damiens), gives me (Karin Viard) and the only irmão (Luca Gelberg).

A family lives on a farm and thanks to Paula who, with family dynamics, becomes possible. A menina, who is born with a special context, faces problems like any other adolescent: tem discussedões na escola, wishes to find love and, from time to time, becomes rebellious within home.

The life of the Belier family changes water for or wine when Paula discovers her musical vocation to sing and is invited to change her city. Divided between leaving her family, which depends so much on her, and following or her dream of her, Paula has a difficult decision for me to make.

O film received six nomeações para os Césares e é a brilliant work, that faults with a lot of delicacy on o process of physical maturity.

Despite dealing with a very specific context, To the Bélier family how do you see and provoke deep identification in all of us that, at some moment of life, we felt that it was necessary to abdicate what we have to continue a new independent path.

3. Intocáveis (Untouchable) (2011)

Intocáveis ​​could be defined as um film about amizade, but that would be a very helpful way to classify a work-debut that plays in so many sensitive points.

Philippe (François Cluzet) is a millionaire who is a tetraplegic and requires help to practically do not work every day, from taking a bath to fazer as refeições.

Driss (Omar Sy), for his time, is a troublesome young man, black, who lives on the outskirts of Paris and is on a conditional regime.

Or two-dozen walks come across when Driss is a candidate to be Philippe's caretaker. It is from the daily conviviality that a relationship of deep partilha is born.

Despite the differences between the two of you - Philippe is a cultured aristocrat, white and rich, Driss is a Senegalese immigrant who is always living and marginalized - an unexpected friendship springs up.

Driss manages to try to Philippe sem carregar or ar of sorrow that his predecessors carers carregavam and win the trust of the aristocrat by becoming a true confidant.

Embora or film had dramatic moments, Intocave and conducted with a huge sensitivity and guarantor attached some moments of gargalhadas - em muitas passagens esse enredo ganha mesmo contours of comedy.

A history foi inspired numa amizade real between o French millionaire Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo and o Algerian Abdel Yasmin Sellou.

Além from prize (Received for production or Goya award from Melhor Filme Europeu), or long-term film was a succession of public having been first placed in French bilheterias not when it was launched.

As well as moving, Intocáveis ​​invites us to reflect on the relationships of affection that can be built between People with very different origins.

4. Or fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) (2001)

A story of Amélie Poulain é um colírio para os olhos e, not by chance, or film became a kind of classic French cult do cinema.

The protagonist of this story is a rather special young man, who was raised in a very different way because he was diagnosed with a heart problem at a young age. Amélie cresceu numa a species of glass vial, deeply lonely. This is not the beginning of the adult life that she discovers her true vocation, that she performs or bees for those people who are year old through small gestures.

With a great sensitivity, Amélie has founded for the people who are part of their daily life and managed to diagnose what they are missing. In a genius and anonymous way, she has a way of playing in their lives: she leaves an unexpected present, she shows that two people are conheçam to come to love each other.

Apart from being aesthetically impeccable - or film with a visual beauty fora da curva - Or fabulous destiny of Amélie Poulain She also told me about a deep entanglement about the need for we pay more attention to the people we love.

Check out our detailed analysis of the film O Fabulous Destiny by Amélie Poulain.

5. How wrong is it to Deus? (Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?) (2014)

In a comedy by Christian Clavier, I had as protagonists Claude (Christian Clavier) and Marie Verneuil (Chantal Lauby), a traditional French Catholic house that had four films.

Conservatives, they want to share ideas for their men and begin to see the future indo by water below when they are husbands from conventional sources.

As three filhas most velhas married with homens of a different origin: a chosen Rachid, an Algerian advocate, another David, a Jew, and a third Chao, a Japanese. Last hope fell on filha mais nova, Laure, who is still single.

Com clever chirps and refined humor, How wrong is it to Deus? It is a funny film, rather than, at the same time, it addresses a serious issue: or preconceit.

O longa-metragem fails on the social expectations, on the two countries of escolherem hairs and on the difficulties faced by multicultural families.

6. Or little Nicolau (Le petit Nicolas) (2009)

Or little Nicolau é uma pérola do cinema francês that achieves sem bem happened na ardua tarefa of resgatar or olhar das crianças.

Nicolau is a little boy who listens to a conversation between the countries and where he will go after an irmãozinho. Commenced by being abandoned by the family as a new member, he panics and tries to find a solution to his problem with the help of two friends from the school.

Or a family film, despite having been initially ugly to please the little ones, I also love adults as intelligent dialogues and bem humorous.

Or longa-metragem, based on the books of René Goscinny, he is able to re-sign us or us olhar innocent and creative that we have when we were minors, but that we end up losing about two years.

7. Bem-vindo to Marly-Gomont (Welcome to Marly-Gomont) (2016)

A premise do belo Bem-vindo to Marly-Gomont It's simple: a newly-formed doctor from Congo, black, moves to a small French village.

Or a film based on the real history of the Zantoko family, which leaves the Congo in search of a life melhor na França.

Despite the doctor being trained, it is a huge rejeição da local população for being black and foreign. The other members of the family - women and two children - also quickly perceive hostility as native hairs are treated.

Or racism is experienced not day by day in more varied ways: or a doctor sees himself as patient, his parents are treated differently at school and sometimes they do not get numb.

Or dramatic film, rather than touches of humor, we face Reflect on or racial preconception e about as limitations that immigrants sentence na pele.

Deeply human and sensitive, Bem-vindo to Marly-Gomont It is a film that tells a story dated two years 70, more than could perfectly exist in the days of the leaf.

8. Minhas afternoon with Margueritte (La Tête in Friche) (2010)

Se você é fã de um bom film about amizade, Minhas afternoon with Margueritte é uma produção not to lose.

To work delicate and cheia of tenderness Fala da relação that is established between two strangers: Germain (Gérard Depardieu), a quarentão, and Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus), a velhinha who is beginning to ficar blind. You two know a public square where Germain used to launch and Margueritte usually sat down to read.

So the differences between them are huge - Germain is a brutemontes and Margueritte is a fragile lady, she does not give me life as soon as the path ends. Despite the differences, you discover something greater that unites you: paixão pelas palavras e pela literature.

Germain was always stereotyped as a donkey both at school and at home. You see Margueritte a friendly and patient figure as he learns daily through readings. Margueritte, for her time, aged 95, found in Germain more fôlego to live.

Based on Marie-Sabine, or film, honest and compelling, he invites us to reflect on a series of philosophical questions about the purpose of life.

9. Love (Amour) (2012)

Love is a film that fails about o Affection and love that resistem ao tempo. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are music teachers settled for about eighty years who share a life for two.

Or casal has a unique filha that lives in another country, because of that, in practice, I end up barely having a company one year or another day by day.

Or drama shows how two members of the house are growing up and learning to cope with the limitations that the body especially depois Anne ter sofrido um avc.

Extremely realistic, we see in the fabric how both adapt more to new circumstances and how or love is transforming like passing decades.

10. Piaf: um hino ao amor (The môme) (2007)

OR biographical filmPiaf: um hino ao amor Fala about the costume of Edith Piaf, a singer who has an impressive life story marked by a huge sophistication and an incredible capacity for improvement.

We have been assisting since a long childhood, who has been abandoned by my mother and a maid, who has gone to the border, attached the greatest events that, as a singer, she manages to place as La vie en rose.

Same quem não é fã da singer will go find nesse film uma singular history, of perseverance and reinvention. Piaf is a personagem fora do comum that deserves to be recognized by those who do not assimilate music.

11. Harassed (À bout de souffle) (1960)

Harassed It is one of the two most celebrated films by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard for ter broken with a series of conventions that we reign in the world of French cinema até então. In technical terms, Godard innovates, for example, in the montage of the film, making breaks at dinners and many times filming with natural light, finding his own language.

The film was inspired by a real history and was Godard's first longa-metragem. The main character in the police narrative is Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a car thief, who ends up killing a policeman during his escape.

Já em Paris, the reunion of a long-standing American friend (Jean Seberg), and you two become lovers. The objective of Michel becomes, then, to escape with her to Italy.

Harassed é um iconic film of the French movement Nouvelle vague e tem enormous importance for the history of cinema.

12. Eu não sou um homem easy (Je ne suis pas un Homme Facile) (2018)

Eu não sou um homem easy it is a comedy that jumps like there are two gender stereotypes.

Um beautiful day, or macho Damien beats with his head in his post when he walks on the street, when he turns to himself, sees the world turned to the opposite.

No new Cenário, you are the women you are parents sociais exchanged and the happens to be surprendered with situations that he has never observed as or remembered assédio sofrido pelas mulheres.

Damien sees himself lost in the privileges he holds as a heterossexual homem and he sat many times objectified nessa nova sociedade.

Year inverter you parents by homens e mulheres, we observe a series of daily situations that we live in a new way.

Or film, which is deeply ironic, guarantors gargalhadas and comic sem to be superficial.

In an original way, the filmmaker Éléonore Pourriat invites us to face or face each other day by day with other olhos.

13. Eu, mamãe e os meninos (Les garçons et Guillaume, à table!) (2013)

To comedy Eu, mamãe e os meninos A curious mess: Guillaume (Guillaume Gallienne), because two irmãos were different, was raised pela mãe as fosse uma menina.

Essa incomum criação within the house or colocou a series of situations of constraints and or rapacious ended up growing victim of bullying feito pelos colleagues na school.

Guillaume ficou no meio do caminho: he did not identify himself as a male, despite the child, nem as a male, despite the physical characteristics.

A history of Guillaume, which recounts autobiographical traces, enchants because it presents you pessoais traumas The artist in a surprising and humorous way.

Guillaume is able to laugh at himself and as a spectator, who is confronted with a series of social stereotypes like effeminate garotos and sexist adults and crosses

14. Ele tem os seus olhos (Il a déjà tes yeux) (2016)

A French house, black, composed by Paul e Sali, decides to adopt a baby because it doesn't get any filhos. After some time there is no adoration process and a very high expectation raised, they finally received or re-born, which is white.

In so far as you are able to have a very natural age with a new baby, as people who are around the world, or because of a white child, they will be raised with a black number.

Ele tem os seus olhos surpreende for showing or I preconceived to the birds e to reveal o social unrest When parents are broken - or frequent in society of black babies will be adored by white countries and Paul and Sali deconstruct this narrative.

Despite it being a deep theme, the film presents a theme in a mild way and with a lot of humor.

15. Blue é a cor mais quente (La Vie D'adèle) (2013)

Or celebrated film Blue é a cor mais quente Tem as background to a love story between two teenagers: Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Emma (Léa Seydoux).

Adèle, 15 years old, meets Emma, ​​a mais velha arts student, her first neighbor. A young person needs to learn to deal with this unpublished feeling at the same time that she struggles as a preconceived by people who are in love with her and are going to discover the case of love between the duas.

O roteiro, that is a free adaptation of the work Le bleu est une couleur chaude (2010), and intense and fez as the film welcomes the Palma de Ouro at the Cannes Festival.

Blue é a cor mais quente It deserves to be seen not only for counting one beautiful love story, more especially for drawing a realistic portrait of a society that still does not live with naturality with a love relationship between two women.

16. I lost my body (J’ai Perdu Mon Corps) (2019)

The only animation from the list is an award-winning breeding and what item very singular entanglement. In I lost my body, we see a more deceased who was a laboratory where she was imprisoned to go procure or what body to belong to in order to return to be internal another time.

Wandering around the streets of Paris in hiding, I am witnessing a series of situations in which he seeks to rediscover himself with other parts of his own body.

Or that it would be at the beginning a mystery narrative ends up symbolizing a search that is much deeper and touches on the questão of memory of two affections.

A history of director Jérémy Clapin, extremely creative, human incompleteness.

17. Between the walls gives school (Between les murs) (2008)

Or a film that received Palma de Ouro, but it was not thrown on or transforming power of education. François Marin (François Bégaudeau) is a professor of French, of the middle class, who is on the outskirts of Paris.

He needs to learn to deal with complicated young people, questioners, who test their limits, are confusing and aggressive. Working with these teenagers, it is revealed a true challenge and François has been rigorously discovered as a teacher and, at the same time, a confidant of two students. This is how to conquer and trust them that the ensino process begins to unfold.

Despite fazer a portrait of a French periphery, or film ends up trying to universal dramas faced hair professors Numa series of communities lacking around the world.

Between the walls gives school It is the last point of departure for those who want to reflect on or role two educators.

18. Nothing to hide (Jeu) (2018)

I know, by uma noite, let's lose our privacy and we are obliged to share all the emails, messages and girls that we receive? This is the purpose of a meeting of long-standing friends, who meet to celebrate at the house of one of them, in the French capital.

Halfway through the night, two members of the group rise to promote this unusual challenge: now all the conversations become public.

A brincadeira, who at first seems harmless, at the end reveals a true regret. Or film Nothing to hide fala das social masks that we use and give our human necessity of camouflaging ourselves and looking like others to please us publicly.

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