“I was very struck by a quote by Fritz Lang, who said that ‘every film should criticize something,’ ” Axelle Ropert says. For the French filmmaker’s latest work “Petite Solange,” a world premiere at ...

The doctors of Axelle Ropert‘s “Miss and the Doctors” are a pair of bachelor physicians who immerse themselves in their family practice at the expense of just about anything else. But that all changes ...

French cinema, no matter how bad, will often find its way to these shores; last year, 75 movies from l’Hexagone were released theatrically — in other words, were given week-long runs — in the U.S.

Axelle Ropert’s carefully calibrated film from France follows a girl experiencing the pain of having to accept her parents as people with faults. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Melanie Bernier and Bastien Bouillon play a blind woman and her neighbor who pretends to be blind in this 21st-century screwball comedy from French director Axelle Ropert. By Boyd van Hoeij A young ...

First-time French director Axelle Ropert has done a marvelous job in creating the central figure of this modest film, Simon Wolberg (powerfully brought to life by actor Francois Damiens), the Jewish ...

“I was very struck by a quote by Fritz Lang, who said that ‘every film should criticize something,’ ” Axelle Ropert says. For the French filmmaker’s latest work “Petite Solange,” a world premiere at ...

“I was very struck by a quote by Fritz Lang, who said that ‘every film should criticize something,’ ” Axelle Ropert says. For the French filmmaker’s latest work “Petite Solange,” which world premiered ...