After her break-out female empowerment portraits in the Cannes Un Certain Regard selected Papicha (2019) and Houria (2022), Franco-Algerian filmmaker Mounia Meddour is moving...
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Big Bug
Produced by Frédéric Doniguian, Richard Grandpierre
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant
Starring: Elsa Zylberstein, Alban Lenoir, Isabelle Nanty, André Dussollier
Cinematographer: Thomas...
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French auteur Claude Lelouch, now well into his seventies, maintains a prolific career, striding through a...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.