Tag: Cinema of France

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #81. Stéphanie Di Giusto’s La Rosalie

La Rosalie Production on Stéphanie Di Giusto's sophomore feature took place in October of last year and it features the likes of Nadia Tereszkiewicz (a...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #84. Thomas Lilti’s Un Métier sérieux

Un Métier sérieux Production on Thomas Lilti's fifth feature commenced back in February of '22 in Normandy with a formidable comprised of Vincent Lacoste, François...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #90. Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s Eat the Night

Eat the Night Prior to premiering their feature debut Jessica Forever (TIFF Platform followed by a showcase at the Berlinale), Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #94. Erwan Le Duc’s No Love Lost

La fille de son père (aka No Love Lost) For his sophomore feature (which received some Fondation Gan coin), Erwan Le Duc moves...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #99. François Ozon’s Mon Crime

Mon Crime In his usual form, the indefatigable French filmmaker François Ozon filmed his twenty-second feature last April with the likes of Rebecca Marder and...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #102. Philippe Garrel’s Le Grande Chariot

Le Grande Chariot Cinema for the Garrels has always been a family affair but Philippe Garrel's 28th features feel a tad more special. Starring Louis...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #109. Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables

Les Indésirables One of the last major projects to move into production in '22 and on this list is Ladj Ly's sophomore film with the...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #110. Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq’s Ama Gloria

Ama Gloria One-third of the trio who won the Camera d'Or for Party Girl back in 2014, Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq is the last one out of...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #118. Vanessa Filho’s Le Consentement

Le Consentement The filming taking place in May of last year, Vanessa Filho's sophomore film will leave no audience member unscathed. Based on Vanessa Springora's...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #120. Jean-Luc Godard’s Scénario

Scénario He left us on September 13th of last year and what remains are some possible gifts. Word is that Scénario could indeed be a...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #123. Delphine Deloget’s Rodéo

Rodéo Not to be confused with last year's Un Certain Regard title about street smarts and dirt bikes from Lola Quivoron, Delphine Deloget's Rodéo is...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #125. Thomas Bidegain’s Soudain, seuls

Soudain, seuls A thriller book-to-film adaptation that was originally meant to be worked in the English language and set to star Jake Gyllenhaal (The Sisters...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #127. Nora El Hourch’s HLM Pussy

HLM Pussy Among the feature film debuts high up on our list we find a scrappy French drama set in subsidized housing via short film...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #131. Romain de Saint-Blanquat’s La Morsure

La Morsure Another feature debut on our list that we're highly curious about is this item that received some coin backing from Gan Film Foundation...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #142. Michel Gondry’s Le Livre des solutions

Le Livre des solutions More than seven years after the release of Microbe & Gasoline, Michel Gondry returns to features (he produced a lot of...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #149. Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry

Jeanne du Barry Set to be a distracting world premiere unveiling due to on-set difficulties, Maïwenn directs herself, Johnny Depp, Louis Garrel, Pierre Richard, Noémie...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #150. Tran Anh Hung’s Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant

Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant Entering his fourth decade of filmmaking which began all the way back with the Cannes Film Festival Caméra d'Or winning...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #159. Teddy Lussi-Modeste’s Pas de vague

Pas de vague Just this past month, Teddy Lussi-Modeste was in the middle of production on his third feature film and it is worth noting...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #185. André Téchiné’s Les âmes soeurs

Les âmes soeurs For his thirtieth feature film, the great André Téchiné filmed in two seasonal time frames (in June of '21 and the following...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #186. Alice Zeniter & Benoît Volnais’ Before the Collapse

Avant l'effondrement It wasn't quite ready for a '21 launch, but author Alice Zeniter & Benoît Volnais will see their co-directorial debut break bread in...

Scruff Stuff: Razor Sharp Ensemble for Di Giusto’s “La Rosalie”

We had learned over the summer that Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Benoît Magimel were set to topline Stéphanie Di Giusto's La Rosalie and over the...

Error Prone: Noée Abita Navigates Cruel World in Victoria Musiedlak’s “La vie sauvage”

Production is due to begin next Monday on Victoria Musiedlak's feature debut and we've learned via Le Film Francais that Noée Abita will topline...

Un Couple | Review

A Human Voice: Wiseman Explores Catharsis and Suppression in Tranquil Soliloquy It’s no secret the Tolstoy household was also unhappy in its own unhappy way...

Interview: Adrian Moyse Dullin – The Right Words (Haut les coeurs)

Taking place within the confines of a chaotic city bus, The Right Words (Haut les Coeurs) is about seizing the moment, taking chances and...

I’m Not There: Quentin Dupieux Enlists Collective for “Daaaaaali !”

Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Pierre Niney, Alain Chabat, Edouard Baer, Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen, Hakim Jemili, Agnès Hurstel, Jérôme Niel, Marc Fraize, Didier Flamand...

Deep Trails: Jonathan Millet Tracing Roadmap for “Les Fantômes”

We are in the midst of getting ready for the offerings for 2023 and it's usually around the fourth quarter of each and every...

The Bronze Venus: Josephine Baker to be Jazzed Up by Maïmouna Doucouré

Coming off the TIFF world premiere of her sophomore film Hawa -- a very PG Capraesque adventure film bursting with magic dust, Maïmouna Doucouré...

Three-alarm Fire: Kechiche Working on Canto Due, Canto Tre & New Project with Olivier Loustau

Tunisian-French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche didn't need the pandemic as an excuse to hunker down. It is well known that his ego and reputation took...

Where are the Adults? Bérénice Bejo Joins Nora El Hourch’s “HLM Pussy”

Fresh off recent film festival premieres of hubby Michel Hazanavicius' Final Cut (Cannes) and Francesca Archibugi's The Hummingbird (TIFF), Bérénice Bejo will support indie...

Peaceful (De son vivant) | Review

The Big C Minus: Bercot Submerges Maudlin Disease Drama with Sentimentality Cancer isn’t the only element degrading the lives of those defined by it in...

Live Reporting: Roschdy Zem Leads Correspondents in Alix Delaporte’s “Vivants”

Angel & Tony (2010) and Le dernier coup de marteau (2014) filmmaker Alix Delaporte is finally climbing back into the director's chair for a...

Fruits de Mer: Guillaume Canet Toplines Stéphane Brizé’s Next Project

Stéphane Brizé is set to move into production on his next ninth feature film as the first player to climb abroad will be vet...

In Utero: Hafsia Herzi Toplines Iris Kaltenbäck’s “Le Ravissement”

To be seen next year in Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due and Stéphane Demoustier's Ibiza, the always busy Hafsia Herzi leads a quartet of...

Spaced Out: Megan Northam Goes into Orbit for Jérémy Clapin’s “Pendant ce temps sur Terre”

After making a name for himself for a rather inventive (animated) tale of young love and true yearning, I Lost My Body filmmaker Jérémy...

¡Viva Argento! Isabelle Huppert Joins New Dario Argento Paris Project Next Spring

After shoring up in Jerzy Skolimowski's EO, Isabelle Huppert will now work with another octogenarian in horror helmer Dario Argento. Currently showcasing Dark Glasses...

Criterion Collection: Mr. Klein (1976) | Blu-ray Review

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Chinese Roulette (1976), a venomous marital melodrama, a character played by Margit Carstensen provocatively inquires, “Who would this person have...

Mitterrand Mindset: KimStim Brings Mikhaël Hers’ “The Passengers Of The Night” into the Family

Proving it's not too late for some Berlinale shopping, Deadline reports that the KimStim folks landed comp title Les Passagers de la nuit -...

Arte France Cinéma Backs Thierry de Peretti’s “À son image” & Vladimir Perisic’s “La honte”

Reported by our friends at Cineuropa, Arte France Cinéma are getting behind a quartet of new projects - a pair that are on our...

Corsica Consciousness: Esther Gohourou & Suzy Bemba Join Corsini’s “Le retour”

Casting is complete and cameras are currently rolling on Catherine Corsini's Le retour. We recently reported that Aïssatou Diallo Sagna was the first to...

Basic Instincts: Rebecca Zlotowski’s Moving into Erotic Thriller Terrain

In heavy press mode commencing first at the Venice Film Festival moving to the French media outlets for the France domestic release and finally...

Winter Girl: Chiara Mastroianni & Nina Hoss Get Schooled in Claire Burger’s “Langue étrangère”

Party Girl (2014) and C'est ça l'amour (2018) filmmaker Claire Burger has been slowly mounting her next feature a Franco-German portrait of youth and...

Summer Awakening: Aïssatou Diallo Sagna Returns to Corsini and “Le retour”

Back in July, we learned that Catherine Corsini was moving on to her next feature and now we've learned that she plucked a key...

Athena | Review

The World is (Not) Yours: Gavras Clumsily Tackles Civil Unrest, Police Brutality Recalling elements of his father Costa-Gavras’ most iconic film, Z (1969), Romain Gavras...

La Gravité | 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

Planet Alignment: Ito Brings Sci-fi to banlieue Drama A standard issue banlieue crime pic is mashed up with thinly developed sci-fi elements in The Gravity...

Our Ties (Les Miens) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

Fit to Be Tied: Zem Scuffles with Family Matters in Slight Drama For his sixth film as director, celebrated actor Roschdy Zem assembles a notable...

Peter von Kant | Review

Save Your Tears for Another Day: Ozon Revels in the Camp Mystique of R.W. Fassbinder It’s clear François Ozon has long been obsessed with the...

Out of this World: Lyna Khoudri Joins Bruno Dumont’s “L’Empire”

A film project that originally had (at different junctures) the likes of Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp and Adèle Haenel had a change of fleet...

Sisterly Love: Vanessa Filho Builds Mistrust with Nina Hoss & Vanessa Paradis in Gender-Bending Thriller “Trespassers”

She has just wrapped her sophomore project Le Consentement this past June and Vanessa Filho has already set her gaze on an intriguing-sounding fact-based story...

Emotional Distress: Bertrand Bonello Begins Production on “La Bête”

Our friends at Cineuropa inform us that Bertrand Bonello has begun production on La Bête - his ninth feature film that will have had...

All Le Mans on Deck: Mélanie Laurent Revs Up “La grande odalisque”

With a half dozen feature films under her belt in just under a decade, Mélanie Laurent will be moving into the fast lane with...

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