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The Richest Woman in the World | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Biggest Camel: Klifa Recruits Huppert to Spoof the Bettencourt Affair Thierry Klifa, who continues to work some of the most notable grand dames of...

Export the Import: Sandrine Kiberlain & Laurent Lafitte Join Julie Delpy’s “Les barbares”

Sandrine Kiberlain and Laurent Lafitte will re-team once again this time as the faces of surprise and dismay representing a small (minded) folk of...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #100. Céline Devaux’s Tout le monde aime Jeanne

Tout le monde aime Jeanne In the rare case we're delighted, engaged and even surprised by French comedies (Bruno Dumont's France is a rare example...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #79. Patricia Mazuy’s Paul Sanchez est revenu!

Paul Sanchez est revenu! A noted but infrequently appearing cinematic presence, director Patricia Mazuy returns with her fifth feature, Paul Sanchez est revenu! (aka Paul...

Elle | Blu-ray Review

Isabelle Huppert scored some of the best notices of her prolific career with Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. The Dutch auteur’s French language debut, which premiered...

Elle | Review

Losing Her Religion: Verhoeven Directs a Fearless Huppert in Provocative Psychological Thriller Arriving with a knotty snarl of perverse commentary, Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven proves...

2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Paul Verhoeven Brings Loaded “Elle” to the Table

Elle not only sees Paul Verhoeven's long awaited return to the Croisette (his only ever Cannes showing being 1992's Basic Instinct) but it also counts as...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #3. Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Elle Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: David Birke, Harold Manning Words cannot describe how excited we are to see the pairing of Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert in...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #2. Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Elle Director: Paul Verhoeven // Writer: David Birke One cannot overlook the plentiful cinematic contributions of Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven, who made waves back in 1973...

The Future is Now: Top 20 New Faces from TIFF 2013

Now that the dust has settled and the behemoth TIFF is in our rear-view mirror, the IONCINEMA.com team are comparing notes, grading films and...

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