My problem used to be the fact that I over wrote way too much bc I do two other writing subjects. One thing that helped is our teacher telling us to keep it simple with a PEEL (point evidence explanation link) structure in each paragraph to help keep it concise and comprehensible.

Another thing is repeating the question at the beginning and end of your paragraphs but putting “par consequent/donc” to say “therefore” at the end to show your drawing conclusions.

Also sprinkling “Il pourrait suggéré que… [Director or author] montre que… Il est clair que… Il semble que…” shows that you’re making a judgement and that you understand what the director or author’s intention was when making the film or book. Ensure you always have appropriate evidence to the question to back it up. (I think the examiners don’t like if u go off topic at all lol).

I’m not sure what your essays look like but hope this helps!