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The Quiet Son (Jouer avec le feu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Father Knows Best: The Coulin Sisters Examine the Detrimental Ripples of Fascism With their third feature, The Quiet Son, French directing duo Delphine and Muriel...

Interview: Tran Anh Hung – The Taste of Things

In the Cannes Best Director-winning, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) the passage of time is measured in teaspoons, tablespoons and table manners....

The Taste of Things | Review

Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous...

Making Of | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

The Working Class Goes to the Back Lot: Kahn Prosaically Processes a Director’s Strife What should cinema be and who should it be made for?...

Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8

Winner of the Camera d'Or (and the Award of the Youth French Film) for The Scent of Green Papaya back in 1993, while he...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching

After more than a decade in filmmaking with a half dozen shorts and a children's TV Series under her belt, perhaps Sundance will throw...

Guns Akimbo | Review

We Lost God Control: Howden Gets Loud with Gamer Action Comedy Video games killed the cinema star could be one of many punchy quips concerning...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

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.