Tag: Bertrand Faivre
The Empire (L’Empire) | Review
The Satire Strikes Back: Dumont Claims His Own Multi-Verse
It’s sometimes difficult to predict what mode French auteur Bruno Dumont will be choosing for his...
Une Famille | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
A Letter to Daddy: Angot Continues Confrontation of Incest
In short, there is no way to rate a film like Une Famille, the debut documentary...
La syndicaliste | Review
Comedy of Power: Huppert Shines in Whistleblower Expose from Salomé
Making a rare appearance in a ‘based on a true story’ film, Isabelle Huppert elevates...
Out of this World: Lyna Khoudri Joins Bruno Dumont’s “L’Empire”
A film project that originally had (at different junctures) the likes of Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp and Adèle Haenel had a change of fleet...
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...
Little Joe | Review
Stamen Alive: Hausner Examines the Pursuit of Happiness in Cerebral Sci-Fi
It was “the nightmare that threatened the world” and something that came from “deep...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 4 – Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe
A staple figure of the Un Certain Regard section with three trips dating back to 2001's Lovely Rita and 2004's Hotel with her last...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #19. Little Joe – Jessica Hausner
Little Joe
Austrian director Jessica Hausner returns to the essence of genre with her fifth feature Little Joe, which deals with issues of reality vs....
