A tour through French noir

What makes French film noir French? Dive down to the lowest depths with our video abstract, charting six key characteristics of cinema’s most alluringly brooding genre. A video essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin for Sight & Sound’s Deep Focus: French film noir season, running October-November 2016 at the BFI Southbank, London, and until 4 December at the Ciné Lumière, London. Read Cristina and Adrian’s introduction: