Tag: Francois D’Artemare

Music | Review

Oedipus Shrugged: Schanelec Finds Tragedy is the Song That Doesn’t End There’s little use clinging to the description of Angela Schanelec’s latest film Music as...

Interview: João Canijo – Bad Living (Mal Viver)

Taking home the Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlinale, Portuguese auteur João Canijo's latest Bad Living (Mal Viver) is the director's masterpiece, examining the...

Living Bad (Viver Mal) | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama “Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #98. Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below

One Floor Below Director: Radu Muntean // Writers: Radu Muntean, Rãzvan Rãdulescu, Alexandru Baciu. With his four previous features, this Romanian director was flying under the...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

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.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...