Tag: Adèle Haenel
Returning to Reims (Fragments) | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review
Blue is the Warmest Collar: Periot’s Projects a Sublime Visualization of Potent Memoir
For his third feature length documentary, Jean-Gabriel Périot tackles the celebrated 2009...
Criterion Collection: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) | Blu-ray Review
In a world concerned with rigid dichotomies, there remains a roughhewn juxtaposition of the male gaze and the female gaze. Taking into consideration the...
Deerskin | Review
Full Leather Jacket: Dupieux’s Cinema Bizarre Continues with Killer Style
Quentin Dupieux, France’s purveyor or loopy absurdism, returns with Deerskin, headlined by high-profilers Jean...
Interview: Céline Sciamma – Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Cannes 2019 marked an important step in the career of Céline Sciamma, who took home a Best Screenplay Award from her impressive premiere in...
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Review
Paint it Bright: Sciamma Dazzles with Career-Best, Ardent Period Drama
You only need a few seconds to fall in line with Céline Sciamma’s commanding directorial...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6 – Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Shining bright like a diamond, Céline Sciamma makes her way into the comp for a first time with her fourth feature film. Portrait of a...
Heroes Don’t Die | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Crimes of the Heart: Rapin Explores Mediums as Remembrance with Inquisitive Debut
The idea of reincarnation was once a virulent staple of American genre films,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #33. Portrait of the Girl on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) – Céline...
Portrait of the Girl on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)
French director Céline Sciamma ends her five year hiatus from directing with...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #76. Le daim – Quentin Dupieux
Le daim
For his seventh feature, French director Quentin Dupieux continues his particular brand of black comedy with Le daim, starring Oscar winner Jean Dujardin,...
BPM (Beats Per Minute) | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Beat Goes On: Campillo Mounts Generous Homage to ACT UP Paris
While there are several noted cinematic renderings of the early days of the...
Orphan | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review
Woman Thou Art Loosed: Des Pallieres Disorientates with Fractured Character Portrait
Between constantly shifting time periods and abrupt transitions from one clutch of characters to...
The Unknown Girl | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Guilt Trip: The Dardennes’ Add a Touch of Genre to Collective Guilt
For better or worse, we already know what kind of quiet poignancy...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8: Dardennes Get Clean Bill of Health for “The Unknown Girl”
Padding their already impressive filmography as filmmakers, the Dardennes are becoming a force in auteur-driven films as producers. Landing a little everywhere in Cannes...
Confession of a Child of the Century | Blu-Ray Review
In 2012, French director Sylvie Verheyde mounted an ambitious, English language adaptation of Alfred de Musset’s controversial 1836 autobiographical novel Confession of a Child...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #1. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s La Fille inconnue
La Fille inconnue
Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Writers: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
The two-time Palme d'Or winning Belgian duo Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Rosetta; L'Enfant) take...
In the Name of My Daughter | Blu-ray Review
French auteur Andre Techine's In the Name of My Daughter received a decent theatrical run nearly a year after it premiered out of competition...
Love at First Fight | Review
Once Bitten: Cailley’s Unique Exploration of Summer Lovin’
Since premiering at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it picked up the FIPRESCI Prize in the...
In the Name of My Daughter | 2015 COLCOA French Film Festival Review
Scene of the Crime: Techine's Overly Involved True Crime Saga
Too often, In the Name of the Daughter, the latest from auteur André Téchiné (and...
Love At First Sight: The Dardennes ID Adèle Haenel as “La fille inconnue”
Potentially adding to their list of strong, infatigable and memorable film heroines in the line of Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne), Lorna (Arta Dobroshi), Samantha (Cécile...
Carnie Folk; Haenel & Lola Duenas Among Performers in Léa Fehner’s “Les ogres”
Respectively coming off red-hot Cannes' Directors' Fortnight titles in big winner Les Combattants and Alleluia, actresses Adèle Haenel and Lola Dueñas are reteaming (they...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #86. Andre Techine’s L’homme que l’on aimait trop
L'homme que l'on aimait trop
Director: Andre Techine
Writers: Andre Techine, Cedric Anger, Jean-Charles Le Roux
Producer: Fidelite Films
U.S. Distributor: Right Available
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Guillaume Canet, Adele...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #32. Guy Maddin’s Spiritismes
Spiritismes
Director: Guy Maddin
Writer(s): Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk
Producer(s): Phyllis Laing
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Amira...
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