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Non-Fiction | Review

The French Publisher’s Wife: Assayas Straddles Digital Criminals and Corporate Cannibals in Playful Bon Mot Hardly a stranger to the back room wheeling and dealing...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #16. Olivier Assayas’ E-Book

E-Book Juliette Binoche has a stellar slate lined up for 2018. She’s been so booked, she dropped out of Mia Hansen-Love’s Maya, who is married...

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...

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle’s Ada Condeescu & Lorna’s Silence’s Arta Dobroshi Among Shooting Stars Ten of 2013

Actress Ada Condeescu who has in just a trio of films (award-winning If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, the Cannes selected Loverboy and...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.