Tag: Alexandre Perrier
A Man of His Time (Notre salut) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lost Illusions: Marre Administers Plodding Portrait of an Opportunist
“There’s nothing worse than being bored with a boring man,” according to French writer Antoine Laurain....
Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)
From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the recent Jonathan Millet's Ghost Trail (2024), Tawfeek Barhom has the kind of face that stays...
Gorgonà | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review
The Female of the Species: Kalogiropoulou Hits the Gas in Brooding Debut
How, exactly, does a powerful woman command the patriarchy? It turns out, only...
Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s Debut
There’s arguably a slippery slope at work in Alexe Poukine’s narrative debut Kika, a far...
Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret Prefer “Ma frère”, Emmanuel Marre Goes Solo on “Notre salut”
As usual, the folks at Cineuropa get the dibs on CNC’s advance receipt news and today we learn that The Worst Ones (Les Pires)...
Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) | Review
Ground Control: Exarchopoulos Takes Flight in Portrait of Repressed Anguish
For their directorial debut Zero Fucks Given, Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre opt for a...
Hunted [Video Review]
Once Upon a Time in Belgium: Paronnaud Goes into the Woods for Violent Retro-Fairytale
The notion of the wolf in sheep’s clothing busts into blurred...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #95. Cosmogonie – Vincent Paronnaud
French director Vincent Paronnaud is best known as an animator, having co-directed two films with Marjane Satrapi. The two parted ways following 2011’s Chicken...
