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The Richest Woman in the World | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Biggest Camel: Klifa Recruits Huppert to Spoof the Bettencourt Affair Thierry Klifa, who continues to work some of the most notable grand dames of...

A Radiant Girl (Une jeune fille qui va bien) | Review

Games of Hate & Chance: Kiberlain Curates Characterization with Tragic Wartime Portrait In the eye of a swiftly gathering storm in the summer of 1942,...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #185. André Téchiné’s Les âmes soeurs

Les âmes soeurs For his thirtieth feature film, the great André Téchiné filmed in two seasonal time frames (in June of '21 and the following...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #187. Martin Provost’s Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe

Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe A French filmmaker who offers comfort food portraits, for his eighth outing Martin Provost enlisted the likes of Vincent Macaigne, Cécile...

Lost Illusions | Review

F is for Fake: Giannoli Highlights Prescience in Adaptation of Balzac Classic The erosion of romanticism and idealism is at the core of Honore de...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #61. Comédie humaine – Xavier Giannoli

Comédie humaine France’s Xavier Giannoli scored a sleeper hit with 2018’s supernatural tinged drama The Apparition starring Vincent Lindon (scoring a Cesar nod for newcomer...

Things to Come | Blu-ray Review

Although the thunderous awards campaign for Isabelle Huppert’s performance in Elle somewhat obscured the rightful acclaim which should have equally been bestowed upon her...

Things to Come | Review

Things Fall Apart: Hansen-Love Crafts Superb Scenario for Huppert Director Mia Hansen-Løve breathes majestic layers of complexity into her fifth feature, Things to Come, documenting...

Marguerite | Blu-ray Review

Of the two recent approximations concerning US socialite and infamously self-professed chanteuse Florence Foster Jenkins, it is Xavier Giannoli’s 2015 satirical Marguerite (using her...

Marguerite | Review

Sing the Body Apoplectic: Giannoli Pays Thanks to the Music French director Xavier Giannoli borrows an obscure piece of American pop culture for his latest...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #5. Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come

Things to Come Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve With four features under her belt, French director Mia Hansen-Løve has become a prolific auteur, following the success...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #34. Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite

Marguerite Director: Xavier Giannoli // Writer: Xavier Giannoli French director Xavier Giannoli has previously helmed five features, two of them playing in competition in Cannes, including...

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