Tag: Catherine Frot
Miséricorde | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Kiss Me or Kill Me: Guiraudie Stirs a Sinister Solace in the Backwoods
Alain Guiraudie returns to the ruinous climes of rural malcontentedness with his...
Catherine Frot Toplines, Claire Mathon Behind the Line in Alain Guiraudie’s “Miséricorde”
Just weeks before Alain Guiraudie is set to begin production on his seventh feature film, we learn (via the lesinrocks folks) that the cast of...
The Rose Maker (La fine fleur) | Review
In the Name of the Rose: Frot Elevates Formulaic Melodrama from Pinaud
“What is life without beauty?,” inquires antiquated rosarian Eve Vernet in Pierre Pinaud’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #68. Des hommes – Lucas Belvaux
Des hommes
Belgium’s Lucas Belvaux has assembled one of his highest profile casts in some time with his latest feature Des hommes (Home Front), which...
The Midwife | DVD Review
What seemed like a novel idea, pairing two of French cinema’s contemporary icons from opposing schools of expression (the dramatically inclined Catherine Deneuve and...
The Midwife | Review
Midwife Crisis: Provost Squanders Fine Cast in Trite Melodrama
The essence of French director Martin Provost’s latest film The Midwife is supposed to revolve around...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #38. Martin Provost’s The Midwife
The Midwife
Director: Martin Provost
Writer: Martin Provost
French director Martin Provost has consistently crafted strong, prominent roles for women (his first two titles featured Carmen Maura),...
Marguerite | Blu-ray Review
Of the two recent approximations concerning US socialite and infamously self-professed chanteuse Florence Foster Jenkins, it is Xavier Giannoli’s 2015 satirical Marguerite (using her...
Marguerite | Review
Sing the Body Apoplectic: Giannoli Pays Thanks to the Music
French director Xavier Giannoli borrows an obscure piece of American pop culture for his latest...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #34. Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite
Marguerite
Director: Xavier Giannoli // Writer: Xavier Giannoli
French director Xavier Giannoli has previously helmed five features, two of them playing in competition in Cannes, including...