Tag: Alain Dessauvage
Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Bent Knee, Limp Wrist: Dhont Explores Love at the Frontline
“We have so much to say and we shall never say it,” is one of...
Small Things like These | Review
All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...
Mexico 86 | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
Coup de Madre: Díaz Revisits Violent Turmoils with Intimate Familial Drama
Director César Díaz continues his cinematic exploration of Guatemala’s brutal civil war, considered the...
Exclusive Clip: Bérénice Béjo is Fight-or-Flight in César Díaz’s Mexico 86
Winner of the prestigious Caméra d'Or in 2019 for his debut Our Mothers (we were on hand - check out our coverage) Guatemalan filmmaker...
Interview: Lukas Dhont – Close
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize (tied with Claire Denis) at this year's Cannes Film Festival, with his sophomore feature, Lukas Dhont has cemented...
Close | Review
The Children’s Hour: Dhont Explores Unspoken Realities in Masterful Drama
The essence of Close, the sophomore film from Belgium’s Lukas Dhont, is akin to the...
Moffie [Video Review]
Call Me by Your Shame: Hermanus Mines Historical Trauma in Coming-of-Age Drama
It’s difficult to reconcile the messiness of the past with potential issues of...
Video: Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer and the Jailbird – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Our Tommaso Tocci caught up with Michaël R. Roskam's latest while at the Venice Film Festival calling his cinema "marked by reticence and doomed...
