Tag: Denis Podalydes
The Most Precious Of Cargoes | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable
What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...
Making Of | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Working Class Goes to the Back Lot: Kahn Prosaically Processes a Director’s Strife
What should cinema be and who should it be made for?...
Snow Queen: Marion Cotillard Toplines Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “La Tour de glace”
ARTE France Cinéma have thrown their support behind a quintet of projects and among them we find Lucile Hadzihalilovic re-teaming with Marion Cotillard for...
Catherine Corsini’s Le retour (Homecoming) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
The second film in the comp and first French film item and one of seven feature debuts from female filmmakers comes with an interesting...
Le retour | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Put a Label on It: Corsini’s Corsica is a Lieu for Inter & Intra-personal Growth
Napoleon Bonaparte’s birthplace is certainly a site rich in history...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #64. Catherine Corsini’s Le retour
Le retour
Formerly titled "La Loi du plus fort", Catherine Corsini began filming on Le retour back in September of last year. Set in Corsica,...
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...
Anaïs in Love | Review
She’s Pure as New York Snow: Bourgeois-Tacquet Charms in Effortless, Effective Comedy
With her unexpectedly charming debut, Anaïs in Love, director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet presents the...
Bloody Oranges | Review
Strange Fruit: Meurisse Gets Gonzo with Slice of Cinema Bizarre
Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse follows up his 2016 comedy Apnee with something a bit more uncomfortable...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Week Announce 1st Selection: Bourgeois-Tacquet’s “Les Amours d’Anaïs”
While we await next week's line-up unveilings to complete the full Croisette picture and ponder if the likes of helmers Clara Roquet (Libertad), Mari...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #35. Arnaud Desplechin’s Tromperie
Deception
Produced by Pascal Caucheteux
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Written by Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Emmanuelle Devos, Gennadi Famin, Denis Podalydès
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Release Date/Prediction:...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #94. Effacer l’historique – Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine
Effacer l'historique
Kooky Belgian duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine will present their ninth collaboration in 2020, Effacer l'historique, another exercise about social misfits attempting...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #36. Christophe Honoré’s Plaire
Plaire
In the 2000s, French auteur Christophe Honoré was a prominent international figure on the festival circuit. A blazing star by mid-decade with his 2007...
