Starring: Claude Pérès, Marcel Schlutt
Director: Claude Pérès
Running Time: 98 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: March 25th 2013

And the award for French-est film of the year goes to…

With a decidedly arty attitude, nudity, real gay sex and people talking in the type of introspective philosophical way that only French people can master (I used to think this slightly existentialist way of speaking was a French film affectation that didn’t reflect how anybody actually spoke – but then I met some middle-class Parisians and realised it’s how many of them actually are). The only thing Unfaithful is lacking is croissant and berets to make it even French-er. I don’t mean this as a criticism, but the film is undoubtedly impressively French. [Read more…]