Tag: Damien Bonnard
Three Friends (Trois amies) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Lyon Lies Bleeding: Mouret Explores L’amour Fou (Encore)
Even for those unfamiliar with the filmography of Emmanuel Mouret, his latest film, Three Friends will unequivocally...
La Pampa (Block Pass) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Will You Be My Ride or Die?: Chevrollier Ramps Up the Chaos in Portrait of Sons & Missing Fathers
Exploring themes of rebellion, shame, and...
Love Me Don’t: Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, India Hair & Damien Bonnard Join Mouret’s “Une honnête femme”
A major ensemble casting update has dropped (via the Cineuropa folks) for Emmanuel Mouret's next directing gig. His brochette includes Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier,...
Moving Ahead: Camélia Jordana, Sofiane Zermani & Damien Bonnard Housed in Manèle Labidi’s “Reine mère”
Franco–Tunisian filmmaker Manèle Labidi who gave us the Venice Days selected Arab Blues (aka Un divan à Tunis) back in 2019, is setting up...
Only the Animals | Review
Catfish People: Moll Returns to the Ripple Effects of Identity Issues
In the early 2000s, German born Dominik Moll was a fast-rising director of contemporary...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #87. Joachim Lafosse’s Les Intranquilles
Les Intranquilles
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse returns to familiar territory with a troubled couple in his ninth feature, Les Intranquilles (The Restless). Luxbox presold the...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables
An actor whose appeared in both of Romain Gavras' outings as a director (he was one of the founding members of the collective Kourtrajmé best...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #21. Pure As Snow (Blanche comme neige) – Anne Fontaine
Pure As Snow
Anne Fontaine re-teams with Isabelle Huppert for the third time in Pure As Snow, a modern, erotic comedy re-telling of the Brothers...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #98. Seules les bêtes (Only Beasts) – Dominik Moll
Only Beasts (Seules les bêtes)
Director Dominik Moll returns to genre for his sixth film Seules les bêtes (Only Beasts), adapted from a 2017 novel...
Staying Vertical | Review
The Bipedal Advantage: Guiraudie Returns to Vaguely Pernicious Themes
After his 2013 breakout success with Stranger By the Lake, a nod to France’s Hitchcockian forefather...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 99. F.J. Ossang’s 9 Fingers
9 Fingers
Director: F.J. Ossang
Writer: F.J. Ossang
Cult filmmaker F.J. Ossang returns after a seven year break with his fifth film, 9 Fingers. His 1985 debut...