Tag: Cinema of Canada
Interview: Philippe Lesage – Comme le feu (Who By Fire)
The adults in the room may be battling for dominance, but in the end, it’s the one who considers the long-term consequences and deeper...
Cold Feet: Philippe Falardeau Drives Away with ‘Mille secrets mille dangers’
There was a brief delay for the start of the production (originally they were circling a 2023 start), but finally French-Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau...
Down in the Dumps: Anne Émond Throws Patrick Hivon & Piper Perabo Together in ‘Adam’
French-Canadian filmmaker Anne Émond has begun production into her first foray into English-language cinema (we imagine that this will be a bilingual film) with...
First Time for Everything: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles Begins Production on ‘Petite rose’
After sliding back into the docu realm, French Canadian filmmaker Geneviève Dulude-De Celles has returned to fiction with Petite rose (formerly titled Fleur bleue)...
Matt and Mara | Review
Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up
The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and...
Bonjour Tristesse | 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Lifestyles of the Rich, Conflicted & Coddled: Dull Vacation in the South of France for Debut
Ah, summer in the south of France. The cerulean...
Teaser for Chloé Robichaud’s “Deux femmes en or”
We've got the first (really early) look at Chloé Robichaud's fourth feature film -- which is set to drop next summer (domestic Quebec release)...
Interview: Monia Chokri & Magalie Lépine Blondeau – The Nature of Love
In a creative output that saw her add a harvest of three feature films in the last five years, after 2019's A Brother's Love...
The Nature of Love | Review
Heart in the Right Place: Chokri Lets the Body & the Camera Do the Talking in Rom Dramedy
French Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri adds another...
Interview: Ariane Louis-Seize – Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
After being feted on the Lido (winner of the Director's Award in the Giornate degli Autori section - we were there) and being showcased...
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | Review
Sentimental Succubus: Louis-Seize Finds Love is All Consuming in Vampire Rom-Com
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry” read the tagline for the quintessential...
The Shrouds | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Death Be Not Shroud: Cronenberg Hits Dead Ends in Sluggish Mystery
The burial business serves as the battle ground for a complicated conundrum in David...
Comme le feu (Who by Fire) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Into the Woods: Lesage Explores Wounded Masculinities
In Vincent Sherman’s 1943 Bette Davis-led melodrama Old Acquaintance, the complex relationship between a pair of female frenemies...
2023 TIFF: Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils to World Preem in Toronto
Shot in February-March range this year, Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils will have quickly jettisoned into a release in 2023 with Toronto Intl. Film Festival...
Shepherd’s High: Sophie Deraspe Currently Filming “Berger” with Félix-Antoine Duval
French Canadian filmmaker Sophie Deraspe is currently taking big gulps of the French Alps for her sixth feature film currently in production. Saint-Narcisse thesp...
Interview: Charlotte Le Bon – Falcon Lake
Selected for the Directors' Fortnight in 2022, Charlotte Le Bon's assured directorial debut was among the highlights of the section and since its launch...
Falcon Lake | Review
Baptism by Water: Unrequited Longing & Fear Found in Le Bon's Simmering Debut
In a perfect swirl of the uninitiated and inhibition, in her directorial...
BlackBerry | Review
Hold the Phone: Johnson Delivers the Ballad of the BlackBerry
Exposing the accidental alchemy which generated the titular BlackBerry, the world’s first Smartphone (and as...
Infinity Pool | Review
The Dualists: Cronenberg Doubles Down on Class Cliches
“Sorrow is concealed in gilded places, and there’s no escaping it,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #40. Untitled Philippe Lesage Project
The highest-ranked Canadian filmmaker on this year's list moved into production on his fourth feature film back in August of last year. After 2015's...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #56. Meryam Joobeur’s Motherhood
Motherhood
Tunisian Canadian filmmaker Meryam Joobeur's fourth short film Brotherhood put her on the map (a Sundance-Clermont selection and Oscar-nominated short) and when the industry...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #69. Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool
NEON break in the new year with a title that we've been discussing on and off for some time now. Brandon Cronenberg's first...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #78. Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara
Matt and Mara
A project that was shot a little bit under the radar, Torontonian Kazik Radwanski moved into production on his fourth feature this...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #104. Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry
BlackBerry
The Dirties (2013) and Operation Avalanche (2016) filmmaker Matt Johnson makes his long awaited return to features with this blast to the past. Featuring...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #139. Caitlin Cronenberg’s Humane
Humane
We'll begin 2023 will a new Cronenberg film, and we'll likely conclude the year with another Cronenberg film and neither items are signed David....
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #165. Anne Émond’s La meute
La meute
After exploring body issues in the teenage years with 2019's Jeune Juliette, Anne Émond's once again moves towards an entire new genre with...