Tag: François Quiqueré

Last Summer (L’Été dernier) | Review

One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an...

Interview: Léa Drucker – Last Summer (L’été dernier)

She was pulled from obscurity (or non-retirement since her last feature was 2013's Abuse of Weakness) when Saïd Ben Saïd optioned the rights to...

Catherine Breillat’s L’Été dernier (Last Summer) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9

Almost a full decade away from the camera since, Catherine Breillat returns to the competition with L'Été dernier (Last Summer). This is her second...

The Damned Don’t Cry | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother: Boulifa Explores Complex Symbiosis in Mother-Son Drama Although it’s cribbing the title of a 1950 Joan Crawford starrer,...

Maria Monge’s Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival

Where Maria Monge's Treat Me Like Fire excels is in abiding by a frenetic fuelled street film that is more steeped in fantasy, than...

The Great Man | 2014 TIFF Review

A More Accurate Title Might Have Been The “Good” or “Serviceable” Man Much like Kathryn Bigelow does with many of her works or like Jasmine...

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From the Sun to the Moon to the..: Kurdwin Ayub Begins Casting for ‘Stars’

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