Tag: Charlotte de Bruyne

Interview: Laura Wandel – Adam’s Sake (L’Intérêt d’Adam)

For her sophomore feature, Belgian filmmaker Laura Wandel continues her rigorous exploration of childhood as a site of ethical conflict, institutional pressure, and emotional...

L’intérêt d’Adam | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

No Bandaid Solutions: Wandel’s Suffocating Drama Explores Collective Collateral Damage Following her remarkable debut Playground (read review), Belgian auteur Laura Wandel moves from a harrowing...

Tori et Lokita | Review

Suffer the Children: The Dardenne Bros. Trend of Neorealism Continues in Dismal Portrait of Migrant Children The Dardenne Bros. have built a significant filmography showcasing...

When It Melts | 2023 Sundance Film Festival Review

Vengeance on a Wet Afternoon: Baetens Prepares a Fatal Reckoning in Grim Debut Home is most certainly not where the heart is in When It...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #106. Veerle Baetens’ When It Melts

When It Melts Belgian actress Veerle Baetens (best known for The Broken Circle Breakdown and Mothers' Instinct) moved behind the camera for her directorial debut...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.