Tag: Alexander Glehr

Gentle Monster | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Children’s Hour: Kreutzer Poses Provocative Dilemmas The complex trappings of denial are at the heart of Gentle Monster, the latest from Austrian director Marie...

Corsage | Review

Waist of Time: Sissi is no Sissy in Kreutzer’s Rebel Biopic The foreboding restraints of an upper body female garment figuratively represent the repression and...

35th European Film Awards: A Cannes Comp rematch for Ali Abbasi, Lukas Dhont & Ruben Ôstlund

Three huge winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival lead the noms for the 35th European Film Awards. Lukas Dhont’s Close, Ali Abbasi’s Holy...

7500 | Review

Code Known: Gordon-Levitt Shines in Intense Procedural Thriller from Vollrath We’ve seen plenty of big budget Hollywood films dealing with airplane hijackings, to which sensitivity...

Interview: Markus Schleinzer – Angelo | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival

Markus Schleinzer’s second feature Angelo (review) has had a long life on the festival circuit, premiering in Toronto (Platform section 2018) and giving wide...

Angelo | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

The Moor the Merrier: Schleinzer Returns with Incendiary Portrait of Indentured Servitude Austrian director Markus Schleinzer returns with his long-awaited sophomore film Angelo, a follow-up...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...