Tag: Benjamin Biolay
Marcello Mio | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis
“I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...
Being Maria | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Forever Noor: Palud’s Schneider Moves From Being a Passenger to Just Saying Non
Since the advent of cinema, it’s been standard operating procedure for the...
Split Level: Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve Lead Ensemble in New Honoré Film
Christophe Honoré has landed quite the cast for his next feature film. Re-teaming with daughter-mother team of Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, Honoré also...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #81. Stéphanie Di Giusto’s La Rosalie
La Rosalie
Production on Stéphanie Di Giusto's sophomore feature took place in October of last year and it features the likes of Nadia Tereszkiewicz (a...
Scruff Stuff: Razor Sharp Ensemble for Di Giusto’s “La Rosalie”
We had learned over the summer that Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Benoît Magimel were set to topline Stéphanie Di Giusto's La Rosalie and over the...
La ligne | Review
Fists Out of Pocket: Meier Mines Superficial Dysfunction with Uneven Comic Melodrama
Although she’s been working on a variety of documentary and short projects, not...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #42. Ursula Meier’s La ligne
La ligne
Excluding her docu features, Ursula Meier is now at the three feature film mark with La ligne (The Line) - a project that...
France | Review
France de France: Dumont Soars with Offbeat Melodrama on Media & Misogyny
Few and far between are odd cinematic delights so deliberately off-center and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #93. Sylvie Verheyde’s Madame Claude
Madame Claude
A Parisian period piece about a 1960s brothel madame wasn't in the cards for 2020, but Sylvie Verheyde's sixth feature Madame Claude will...
On a Magical Night | Review
A Room with a Screw: Honoré Waxes Playful on Marital Discord
The flexibility (or lack thereof) of fidelity in heteronormative relationships is at the center...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #71. Madame Claude – Sylvie Verheyde
Madame Claude
Director Sylvie Verheyde returns to the world of the sex worker in her sixth feature, Madame Claude, a Parisian period piece about a...
Criterion Collection: Personal Shopper | Blu-ray Review
One of French auteur Olivier Assayas’ most divisive films to date (it drew jeers at its premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, but...