Movies
The last time Andre Techine cast his countrywoman Juliette Binoche, she was a 20-year-old unknown. Thirteen years and one Oscar later, she’s back with the director on ‘Alice and Martin.’
Jan. 11, 1998
A new work from French filmmaker Andre Techine is always a source of pleasure, if not necessarily excitement.
Aug. 4, 2006
The considerable pleasure in watching “Scene of the Crime” (at the Fine Arts) derives from the skill and subtlety that its cast and its director, Andre Techine, bring to this convoluted, highly atmospheric tale of fate and passion--for Techine does no special pleading for his spiky, frequently off-putting characters.
March 18, 1987
Behind the opening credits for Andre Techine’s swift and somber “Rendez-vous” (Beverly Center Cineplex), we watch a train rapidly approaching Paris.
May 16, 1987
With his terse, intricately structured “Thieves,” France’s formidable Andre Techine reunites his “Ma Saison Preferee” stars Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil and continues his exploration of thorny family relationships--and this time, an even thornier menage a trois as well.
Dec. 27, 1996
Made before his award-winning “Wild Reeds,” Andre Techine’s “Ma Saison Preferee” (My Favorite Season) is a superb companion film to the subsequent picture, which dealt with the coming of age of a group of young people, one of them gay, in the embittered, divisive France at the time of the Algerian War.
May 31, 1996
A mother and children fleeing war-torn Paris find a safe haven, an unlikely guide and a chance to transform their lives in Techine’s film.
May 21, 2004
This superb 1993 French film reveals Andre Techine, always a director of wit and style, as a mature auteur capable of expressing the intricate interplay of the most complex characters and relationships with an elegant, self-effacing discretion.
Aug. 9, 1998
‘The Girl on the Train’
Feb. 19, 2010
Though we are undeniably youth-obsessed as a culture, adolescence is an area not dealt with well on film, which is one of several reasons “Wild Reeds” is such an unexpectedly satisfying experience.
May 10, 1995