Tag: Anne Fontaine
Fontaine Pen: Elsa Zylberstein Isn’t Done with Simone…de Beauvoir
After recently playing her in Olivier Dahan's Simone: Woman of the Century, Elsa Zylberstein will have another go at walking at playing a Simone...this...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #60. Night Shift – Anne Fontaine
Night Shift
French director Anne Fontaine continues to be a perennial presence in 2020 with her seventeenth feature, Night Shift (formerly titled Police). Produced by...
The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale
Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Durkin, Eliza Hittman, Chloé Zhao
Mughal Mowgli
Moving from the docu form (2013's These Birds Walk and 2019's Ghosts Of Sugar Land) into fiction, Bassam Tariq lassoed Riz Ahmed for...
The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #21. Pure As Snow (Blanche comme neige) – Anne Fontaine
Pure As Snow
Anne Fontaine re-teams with Isabelle Huppert for the third time in Pure As Snow, a modern, erotic comedy re-telling of the Brothers...
The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)
As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...
Reinventing Marvin | 2018 Outfest Film Festival Review
Jewel of Denial: Fontaine Focuses on Class and Queerness in Coming-Out Portrait
French director Anne Fontaine continues to surprise with her varied filmography, turning her...
Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion
Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #54. Anne Fontaine’s Marvin
Marvin
Director: Anne Fontaine
Writer: Anne Fontaine, Pierre Trividic
Having premiered her 2016 French-Polish production The Innocents out of Sundance 2016, French director Anne Fontaine will have...
Interview: Anne Fontaine (The Innocents)
I sat down with Anne Fontaine shortly after her latest film, The Innocents (formerly “Agnus Dei”) premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The increasingly...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #91. Anne Fontaine’s Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei
Director: Anne Fontaine
Writers: Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer, Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial
French director Anne Fontaine, who has been making features since 1997's Dry...
Sundance ’16: Reichardt, Marston, Sachs, Solondz, Stillman & Lonergan Among Premieres
Sundance programmers have unveiled what is a jaw-dropping, savoury Premieres line-up. With names such as Asif Kapadia (Ali & Nino), Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women), Joshua...
2014 TIFF: McCarthy, Bettany, Girard, Fontaine, Barthes Among Several World Preem Add-Ons
Just how much sway do TIFF programmers have? Looking at today's Gala and Special Presentation add-ons, measurably, when it comes to films with star-wattage and...
Adore | Review
M Is For the Many Things You Gave Me: Fontaine’s Cougars and MoFos Fashion Her Striking English Debut
Two parts high trash and one part...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: Picks 200-101
Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional...
2013 Sundance Film Fest: Park City Alumni Linklater, Doremus, Gordon-Levitt, Gordon Green & Batmanglij Load Premieres Program
With the exception of a pair of Fox Searchlight titles (The East and Stoker), Warner Bros.' Before Midnight and 6 hour mini-series from Jane...
My Worst Nightmare | Review
A charming, Gallic comedy featuring one of France’s greatest actresses.
Anne Fontaine’s latest confection, My Worst Nightmare, is a delightful vehicle for the awesome talent...