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A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest is A Very Long Engagement. Jeunet will be most familiar here as the director of Alien 4, but has had bigger non-genre hits with Delicatessen and Amelie. This tells the story of a girl played by Amelie’s Audrey Tautou who refuses to believe that her boyfriend has died in the WWI trenches,... »
Haute Tension (2003)
Alexandre Aja’s Haute Tension (released in the UK as Switchblade Romance for some reason) is an intense and striking horror thriller, reminding me of the old Robert Fuest movie And Soon The Darkness, as two young girls wander about the French countryside, but it soon becomes painfully clear that what he’s doing is relocating... »