Duration: 04/11 - 04/17 Venue: DGA, 7920 Sunset Country: USA Edition: 9th Web: COL COA 2005

Once again, The City of Lights City of Angels was being held at the Directors Guild on Sunset and Plume Noire was attending the festival to bring you reviews of some the featured films.

Even more so than in previous years, the festival was trying to reflect the "variety" of French cinema, mixing the usual depressing dramas with romantic comedies, French-style blockbusters and a few edgy pieces.

The Light The Light belongs to the sub-genre of "regional" French dramas, with its unwelcoming inhabitants, little secrets and remote locations.

Men & Women After seeing Claude Lelouch's Men & Women, a postmodern pudding blending parts 1 and 2 of an unfinished trilogy, I'm not sure that the French filmmaker still has a place in this new cinematic century.

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