Tag: Benoit Magimel
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...
Benoît Magimel is a Slave to the Trade: Simon Moutaïrou Begins Production on “Ni chaînes ni maîtres”
He managed to "outdo" his 2022 Cannes experience of Revoir Paris and Albert Serra's masterwork Pacifiction, with a three film presence on the croisette...
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...
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles) | Review
Tropical Malady: Control is an Illusion in Serra’s Colonialist Quagmire
Literally and figuratively, Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles), the latest from the cerebral Spanish director Albert...
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...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #150. Tran Anh Hung’s Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant
Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant
Entering his fourth decade of filmmaking which began all the way back with the Cannes Film Festival Caméra d'Or winning...
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...
Soul Patch: Nadia Tereszkiewicz & Benoît Magimel Topline Stéphanie Di Giusto’s “La Rosalie”
Clearly Stéphanie Di Giusto is inspired by real women trailblazers of sorts from a certain epoque. After setting up her directorial debut with Soko...
Cooking Up a Storm: Tran Anh Hung Puts Juliette Binoche & Benoit Magimel on “Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant” Menu
We're learning that Vietnamese-born French filmmaker Tran Anh Hung is well into production on what is his seventh feature film. Entering his fourth decade,...
Incredible But True | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review
Beauty Secrets: Dupieux Latest a Strangely Tragic Fable on Human Foibles
The films of Quentin Dupieux, a prolific Belgian director who has spent most of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #28. Jean-Paul Salomé’s La Syndicaliste
La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck)
Jean-Paul Salomé moves the pendulum from crime caper to crime thriller but with biopic elements in his second consecutive project...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #32. Quentin Dupieux’s Incroyable mais vrai
Incroyable mais vrai
A project that has slightly moved up our depth chart, Quentin Dupieux's ninth feature film was more than ready to go for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #47. Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris
Revoir Paris
She's three features into her filmography and we feel like she's one perfectly mapped out film from breaking out bigger than she has...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #24. Bruno Dumont’s France
France
Produced by Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, Muriel Merlin
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Written by Bruno Dumont
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benoît Magimel
Cinematographer: David Chambille
Release Date/Prediction: This...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #37. Quentin Dupieux’s Incroyable mais vrai
Incroyable mais vrai
Produced by Thomas Verhaeghe
Directed by Quentin Dupieux
Written by Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, Anaïs Demoustier.
Release Date/Prediction: A...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #89. Emmanuelle Bercot’s De son vivant
De son vivant
Emmanuelle Bercot reteams with Catherine Deneuve for her sixth feature, De son vivant (In His Lifetime) but unfortunately, Deneuve suffered a minor stroke...
Arte France Cinéma Give Coin to Hansen-Løve’s “Un beau matin” & Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Les Herbes sèches”
The Arte France Cinéma selection committee will be supporting a trio of eyebrow raising projects that will go into production in 2021. At the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #15. On a Half Clear Morning – Bruno Dumont
On a Half Clear Morning
No doubt about it --- Bruno Dumont’s been busier than ever. While 2019 saw the restoration of his 1997 debut...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #49. De son vivant – Emmanuelle Bercot
De son vivant
It seems director Emmanuelle Bercot remains nearly inextricable from Catherine Deneuve, as the director and icon are reuniting on Bercot’s sixth feature,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #88. Lisa Redler – Nicole Garcia
Lisa Redler
Nicole Garcia returned to work with producers David Thion and Philippe Martin for Les Films Pelleas (who produced her 2013 title Going Away...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #56. An Easy Girl (Une fille facile) – Rebecca Zlotowski
An Easy Girl (Une fille facile)
French director Rebecca Zlotowski attempts something new with her fourth film, Une fille facile (An Easy Girl), which is described...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #136. Lisa Redler – Nicole Garcia
Lisa Redler
Actress/director Nicole Garcia commences her ninth feature with Lisa Redler, returning to work with producers David Thion and Philippe Martin for Les Films...
Criterion Collection: The Piano Teacher | Blu-ray Review
Rare are the performers who can surpass the sadistic tendencies of an oligarchically inclined auteur, but there exists no finer example of this than...
Standing Tall | Blu-ray Review
Notable for opening the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (making director Emmanuelle Bercot the second woman to nab such a distinction in the festival’s history),...
Standing Tall | Review
Jostling Juvi: Bercot’s Take Familiar Stance on the System
Exploring a few too many problematic delinquency issues than it can rightly address, Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall (La Tête...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #83. Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Fille de Brest
La Fille de Brest
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Writers: Emmanuelle Bercot, Severine Bosschem
2015 was an exceptional year for writer/director Emmanuelle Bercot. She was the second woman in...
The Connection | Blu-ray Review
Cedric Jimenez's The Connection is a handling of a scenario touched upon from an American perspective in William Friedkin's classic 1971 film The French...
French Boyhood: Emmanuelle Bercot Takes Center Stage with “La Tête Haute” as Cannes Opener
Backstage helmer Emmanuelle Bercot will instead be taking the center stage. Ranked #77 in our top 100 most anticipated foreign films for 2015 and...
The Connection | 2015 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Review
Le Chapitre Français: Jimenez’s Satisfactory Take on Famed Drug Smuggling Operation
Within the glut of cinematic dramas and thrillers contending with drug smuggling operations and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #79. Emmanuelle Bercot’s La tête haute
La tête haute
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot // Writer: Emmanuelle Bercot, Marcia Romano
Though initially an actress that appeared in films from Jean-Francois Richet and Benoit Jacquot (and more...
For a Woman | 2014 COLCOA Review
Mother Load: Kurys Revisits Plight of Parents in Post WWII France
For those familiar with the work of director Diane Kurys, the material that inspired...
