Tag: Florian Zeller
The Son | Review
The Tragedy of Privilege: Zeller’s Familial Identity Trilogy Continues with Maudlin Chapter
The highly revered and internationally renowned playwright Florian Zeller has a formidable talent...
2022 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Hong Sang-soo & Tobias Lindholm to World Premiere in Toronto
The fun part about dissecting TIFF's Gala and Special Presentations unveiling are what titles are skipping TIFF, which titles are moving directly from Venice...
2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!
With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #29. Florian Zeller’s The Son
The Son
Human Swiss army knife novelist, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter and director hit pay dirt with his directorial debut The Father (review). Among the...
The Father | Review
Bend It Like Beckett: Zellers Adapts His Masterful Play into Exploratory Film
In Paradise Lost, John Milton remarked “The mind is its own place, and...
2020 TIFF: Mundruczó, Franco, Rosi, Jasmila Zbanic & Chaitanya Tamhane Among High Profile Selections
With the red carpets remaining in storage this year and A-list players making no plans to quarantine for two full weeks in Canada's capitol,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #97. The Father – Florian Zeller
The Father
French playwright Florian Zeller makes his directorial debut in 2020 with UK production The Father (of note, he directed a stage version of...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section
The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Claudia Llosa, Alice Wu, Radha Blank
False Positive
Working mostly in television with the only exception being Pee-wee's Big Holiday, John Lee grabbed the director's chair for the March New Orleans...
The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...
