Feed My Fetish, Please: Cattet & Forzani Pay Homage to the Eurospy in Dazzling Pastiche
Whether giallo gore or Western shaped, their films don’t lose...
High Tension: Deville & Dufeys Suffer the Children in Jittery Debut
Tossing us right into the hellfire of an acutely agonizing situation, Charlotte Deville and...
Earlier last month we reported that actresses Léa Drucker and Noémie Merlant were going to topline Laura Wandel’s highly anticipated sophomore feature, L’Intérêt d’Adam....
They teamed together on his 2018 Cannes Critics' Week premiered Our Struggles (Nos Batailles), and now Belgian filmmaker Guillaume Senez it set to work...
The folks at the Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles folks are throwing some coin support towards 27 fiction feature...
The Girl with All the Gifts: Torch Tiptoes into Genre with Aloof Drama
Belgian director Fien Troch has built a steadfast filmography on quietly painful...
Belgian-Guatemalan Camera d'Or winning filmmaker César Díaz is finally moving into production on his sophomore film and we've just learned that Bérénice Bejo will...
Let’s Talk About Ex Baby: Balboni/Sirot Need A Lot More Lube for Rom Com
Containing enough notable moments that when stacked together would have worked...
Baby the Rain Must Fall: Life Imitates Art in Serman-Daï’s Narrative Debut
There’s a literalness in It’s Raining In The House (Il pleut dans la maison)...
Suffer the Children: The Dardenne Bros. Trend of Neorealism Continues in Dismal Portrait of Migrant Children
The Dardenne Bros. have built a significant filmography showcasing...
The Children’s Hour: Dhont Explores Unspoken Realities in Masterful Drama
The essence of Close, the sophomore film from Belgium’s Lukas Dhont, is akin to the...
When It Melts
Belgian actress Veerle Baetens (best known for The Broken Circle Breakdown and Mothers' Instinct) moved behind the camera for her directorial debut...
Darling
The husband-and-wife filmmaker tandem from Brussels known best for exploring their worlds via a giallo lense, moved into animated film territory sometime around 2018...
Lenny Guit and Harpo Guit are the masterminds behind Mother Shmuckers (Fils de Plouc), one of the most unhinged comedies to grace Sundance’s Midnight...
Suffer the Children: Wandel Explores Bullying Through a Child’s Perspective in Superb Debut
If everything one needs to know is learned in kindergarten, part of...
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse is wasting little time between projects and will be teaming with veterans thesps Emmanuelle Devos and Benoît Poelvoorde for his tenth...
Close
Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont could't have asked for a better career launch than premiering his debut feature in the Un Certain Regard section and...
Gloria, You’re Always on the Run Now: Du Welz Completes Ardennes Trilogy with Innocence Lost in Dark Fairy Tale
An exercise wherein true and unfaltering...
Stabbing Backwards: Dardennes “Beet” Misguided Youth into Submission
Up until now, even the most disenfranchised personage in Dardennian cinema had at least a glimmer of...
Inexorable
Hot on the heels of his Locarno debuted Adoration (read review), the final chapter in his thematic Ardennes trilogy, Belgian auteur Fabrice du Welz...
Barefoot and Stagnant: Woodworth & Brosens Continue Their Belgian Political Satire
While one doesn’t necessarily have to be readily familiar with the 2016 film King...
Strife Sentence: Senez Presents Quietly Effective Domestic Drama
Director Guillaume Senez teams with writer Raphaëlle Desplechin (sister of Arnaud and Cesar winner for Mathieu Amalric’s...
Ahmed
The Dardenne Bros. turn their socially minded lens to religious extremism with their eleventh narrative feature, Ahmed. As usual, the Dardennes are collaborating with...
Adoration
Belgian provocateur Fabrice du Welz returns with Adoration, the third chapter of his celebrated Ardennes trilogy, which follows his 2004 debut Calvaire and 2014’s...
Wheels of Desire: Mortier Breaks Silence with Funereal Portrait of Dead Celebrity
It was a major punchline in Mike Nichols’ version of The Birdcage (1996)...
Showcased as part of the fierce acting quartet in the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion winning Xavier Legrand's Custody (Jusqu'à la garde), child actor...