Tag: Benoit Roland
Forever Your Maternal Animal | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Only Mothers Left Alive: Maurel Funnels Dysfunctional Family Matters
You can't go home again and it’s a disaster to even try, especially as evidenced in...
Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s Debut
There’s arguably a slippery slope at work in Alexe Poukine’s narrative debut Kika, a far...
Ari | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Murmur of the Heart: Serraille Conquers Indifference Through Sincerity
With her third feature, Ari, director Léonor Serraille confirms a clear pattern of interest in exploring...
Planète B | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Say My Name Say My Name: Rapin Conquers Hearts, Minds and VR HeadSets in Wonky Digital Dystopia Piece
After exploring themes of rebirth and reincarnation...
Exclusive Clip: Invalid Expire Dates in Aude Léa Rapin’s ‘Planet B’
After splashing in the Critics' Week section on the Croisette with Heroes Don't Die (2019), Aude Léa Rapin returns to another Critics' Week section...
Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) | Review
Ground Control: Exarchopoulos Takes Flight in Portrait of Repressed Anguish
For their directorial debut Zero Fucks Given, Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre opt for a...
Hunted [Video Review]
Once Upon a Time in Belgium: Paronnaud Goes into the Woods for Violent Retro-Fairytale
The notion of the wolf in sheep’s clothing busts into blurred...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #95. Cosmogonie – Vincent Paronnaud
French director Vincent Paronnaud is best known as an animator, having co-directed two films with Marjane Satrapi. The two parted ways following 2011’s Chicken...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #106. Mon légionnaire – Rachel Lang
Mon Legionnaire
Director Rachel Lang snags Louis Garrel (who had a significant 2019, appearing in Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy and Gerwig’s Little Women,...
