Tag: Alex Descas
Interview: Laura Wandel – Adam’s Sake (L’Intérêt d’Adam)
For her sophomore feature, Belgian filmmaker Laura Wandel continues her rigorous exploration of childhood as a site of ethical conflict, institutional pressure, and emotional...
L’intérêt d’Adam | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
No Bandaid Solutions: Wandel’s Suffocating Drama Explores Collective Collateral Damage
Following her remarkable debut Playground (read review), Belgian auteur Laura Wandel moves from a harrowing...
Criterion Collection: Let the Sunshine In | Blu-ray Review
Claire Denis had one of her most prominent showings in over a decade with her 2017 title Let the Sunshine In, a melancholy rom...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: # 5. Mia Hansen-Løve’s Maya
Maya
After winning Best Director at the 2016 Berlinale thanks to her exquisite Isabelle Huppert starrer Things to Come (read review), French director Mia Hansen-Løve finally...
Buoyant Bangalore: Kolinka, Banerjee, Descas & Johanna ter Steege Set for Hansen-Løve’s “Maya”
The set pieces (people and locations) are finalized and put in place for Mia Hansen-Løve's Maya, the multiple territory, global trotting think piece on...
Let the Sunshine In | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Tall Dark Stranger: Denis and Binoche are Remarkable Bedfellows in Light Comedy
Claire Denis comes as close as she ever will to romantic comedy...
Portrait of the Artist | 2015 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Review
On My Skin: Barraud Explores the Essence of Monstrosity
There are moments within Antoine Barraud’s sophomore feature Portrait of the Artist that tend to feel...
