Tag: Christine De Jekel

Interview: Tran Anh Hung – The Taste of Things

In the Cannes Best Director-winning, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) the passage of time is measured in teaspoons, tablespoons and table manners....

The Taste of Things | Review

Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous...

Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8

Winner of the Camera d'Or (and the Award of the Youth French Film) for The Scent of Green Papaya back in 1993, while he...

Rien à perdre (All to Play For) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review

Other People’s Children: Deloget Butts with Bureaucracy in Familial Drama Virginie Efira continues to explore the arduous spectrum of contemporary motherhood in her latest film,...

Both Sides of the Blade | Review

Lover Come Back: Denis Lets the Dark Side in Relationship Melodrama Three’s definitely a crowd in Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement),...

Interview: Meryem Benm’Barek – Sofia | 2018 Cannes Film Festival

By way of the young, unmarried Moroccan titular protagonist, Meryem Benm'Barek cuts her teeth with a piece that looks at the unwanted pregnancy under the...

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