Tag: French Cinema
L’amour Ouf (Beating Hearts) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Thief of Hearts: Lellouche’s Sprawling Romance Has Arrhythmia
A common occurrence for actors moonlighting as directors is not knowing how to hone a focus, crafting...
Miséricorde | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Kiss Me or Kill Me: Guiraudie Stirs a Sinister Solace in the Backwoods
Alain Guiraudie returns to the ruinous climes of rural malcontentedness with his...
Block Pass (La Pampa) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Will You Be My Ride or Die?: Chevrollier Ramps Up the Chaos in Portrait of Sons & Missing Fathers
Exploring themes of rebellion, shame, and...
The Story of Souleymane | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Straightened Story: Lojkine’s Details Delivery App Woes to Application Process Lows
Standing on fertile creative ground, Boris Lojkine once again explores the narratives of individuals...
Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Art of Saying Nothing: Dupieux Deconstructs Cinema
Had Luis Bunuel approached conveying the reality of cinema produced by artificial intelligence, there may have been...
La Bête (The Beast) | Review
In the Mood for Love & Death: Bonello Explores the Final Frontier of Emotional Intelligence
Throughout the dizzying centuries-spanning odyssey of an unrequited love in...
Coup de chance | Review
Bad Luck Banging: Luck is a Fickle Mistress in Allen’s Amusing Gallic Debut
For his fiftieth (and rumored to be last) film, Woody Allen’s French...
DogMan | Review
All Dogs Go to Heaven: Besson Gets Bombastic with Retro Pulp
The suspension of disbelief required to enjoyably settle into Luc Besson’s latest film, DogMan,...
Foreign Tongue (Langue étrangère) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Tongues Untied: Love Lies Easy in Burger’s Cross Culture Coming of Age Drama
There’s a lot going on in Claire Burger’s third film, Foreign Tongue...
My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments
Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné continues his steady, perennial output with the humanist melodrama...
Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Time Regained: Assayas Agonizes in Pretentious Pandemic Reflection
In what stands as evidence of a surprising lack of self-awareness, director Olivier Assayas reenacts a composite...
Direct to Video: Léa Seydoux & Co. Learn Their Lines for Quentin Dupieux’s “À notre beau métier”
After a 2023 where he gave us a double bill in Daaaaaali! (read review) and Yannick, Quentin Dupieux is still seeing double. The quartet...
Personal Services: Naomi Watts, Will Sharpe & Jamie Campbell Bower Among Players in “Emmanuelle”
Earlier this morning Audrey Diwan confirmed the recent news that Naomi Watts has a role in her highly anticipated Emmanuelle, but the French filmmaker...
Your Room or Mine?: Neon Books Flight with Audrey Diwan’s “Emmanuelle”
Yesterday we read the Neon folks were "circling" and that morphed into "buying" the North American rights to the highly anticipated third feature film...
Young Guns: Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh Prepping “Les Yeux Verts”
The filmmaking duo, whose debut film Gagarine earned the Cannes Label in 2020 and found its way to cinephiles amidst the challenges of the...
Interview: Sophie Letourneur – Voyages en Italie
Obviously it was always going to be Italy. Not Spain. Misadventures that take place in real life are matched by the very creative adventures...
Hall of Mirror: Sammy Lechea & Zar Amir Ebrahimi Topline Karim Moussaoui’s “The Vanishing”
After making a splash on the Croisette in 2017 with his debut feature Until The Birds Return (Un Certain Regard selection), Karim Moussaoui is...
Anatomy of a Fall | Review
Witness for the Prosecution: Triet Beguiles with Knotty Crime Procedural
Justine Triet reunites with several of her Sibyl (2019) collaborators on her best film to...
Catherine Frot Toplines, Claire Mathon Behind the Line in Alain Guiraudie’s “Miséricorde”
Just weeks before Alain Guiraudie is set to begin production on his seventh feature film, we learn (via the lesinrocks folks) that the cast of...
Bubbling to the Surface: Léa Mysius To Give us a Night to Remember with “Histoires De La Nuit”
A Cannes Film Festival regular with her Critics' Week showcased Ava (in 2017) and Directors’ Fortnight selected The Five Devils (2022), Léa Mysius has...
Conjugal Bliss: Sophie Letourner’s “Voyages en Italie” Part of Future Trilogy
This past weekend we had the chance to chat with French filmmaker Sophie Letourner on her Rotterdam-preemed Voyages en Italie (which was released domestically...
Not So Silent: Guillaume Nicloux Setting Up Sarah Bernhardt Biopic “La divine”
There is no slowing down French filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux. With the comedy Dans la peau de Blanche Houellebecq now in post, Nicloux is now...
Love Will Tear us Apart: Sideshow & Janus Films Embrace Bertrand Bonello’s “The Beast”
It just had its NYFF splash and while it was shut out from any of the Golden Lion prizing in Venice, the critic elites...
More Than Ever (Plus que jamais) | Review
When the Body Speaks: Krieps & Ulliel Fight for the Right Balance in Atef’s Final Voyage Drama
A too young to die portrait that sees...
Love Me Don’t: Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, India Hair & Damien Bonnard Join Mouret’s “Une honnête femme”
A major ensemble casting update has dropped (via the Cineuropa folks) for Emmanuel Mouret's next directing gig. His brochette includes Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier,...
Anatomy of the Future: Arthur Harari to Direct Léa Seydoux in Sci-fi Project
Adding to a string (Crimes of the Future and The Beast) of recent sci-fi-based roles, actress Léa Seydoux is tipped to join Onoda: 10,000...
Labor Market: Laure Calamy Toplines Anne-Sophie Bailly’s Debut “Les Inséparables”
Anne-Sophie Bailly has lassoed the multi-faceted Laure Calamy for her feature debut, Les Inséparables. Originally titled Mona, according to the folks at Cineuropa, the...
En attendant la nuit (For Night Will Come) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
I Was a Teenage Vampire: Rouzet Insists the Family That Slays Together Stays Together
For her narrative feature debut, En attendant la nuit (For Night...
Hors-saison | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Lover Come Back: Romance Rekindles in Brizé’s Elegant Exploration of Regret
The universal dilemma of romantic regret is wondering ‘what could have been’ based on...
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?...
Vermines | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Spider’s Stratagem: Vanicek Weaves Familiar Web with Debut Creature Feature
Creature features have an odd way of satisfying a variety of our escapist desires,...
Sidonie au Japon | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Second Chance Romance: Girard Haunts Huppert in Erstwhile Ghost Story
Isabelle Huppert conjoins two of her most recent recurring cinematic themes with Sidonie in Japan,...
Exclusive: Clips for Héléna Klotz’s Spirit of Ecstasy – 2023 TIFF Platform Programme
Among the ten competition films selected for TIFF's prestige Platform programme, Héléna Klotz makes her long-awaited return to features with Spirit of Ecstasy (aka...
Nothing for Nathan: Producer Saïd Ben Saïd Reteams with Paul Verhoeven for “Sans compter”
French film producer Saïd Ben Saïd sort of resurrected the career of Paul Verhoeven with the release of Elle (2016), and he had been...
Barbie World: Sophie Fillières’ “Ma vie ma gueule” Ready for 2024
The Cineuropa folks confirm that production on Sophie Fillières' seventh feature film is now complete (production took place in Scotland) - which means we'll...
Breast the Wave: Charlène Favier Prepping “Oxana”
Slalom (Cannes 2020 Label) and La fille qu'on appelle a television film (that we mislabeled) to be released in the fall (via ARTE) filmmaker...
House of Worship: Amalric & Françoise Lebrun Finalize Paul Dédalus Tale in Desplechin’s “Spectateurs”
Filming begins today on Spectateurs - a docu-fiction film that will see Cannes darling Arnaud Desplechin's complete his Paul Dédalus films which began with...
Final Cut (Coupez!) | Review
Primetime Cut: Hazanavicius Returns to Absurdity with Overdone Zombie Remake
Michel Hazanavicius has certainly established his affection for the nonsensical, making a name for himself...
Railing Against: Vincent Lindon & Benjamin Voisin Featured in Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s “À la hauteur”
The sister filmmaker tandem behind 17 filles (2011) and Voir du pays (2016) have put a bow on their latest feature film. The Cineuropa...
Action!: Marie Monge, Ugo Bienvenu & Rocco Labbé Receive CNC Support
The Cineuropa folks have highlight three action-genre projects we'll now be keeping tabs on and which have benefitted from some coin from the CNC...
Split Level: Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve Lead Ensemble in New Honoré Film
Christophe Honoré has landed quite the cast for his next feature film. Re-teaming with daughter-mother team of Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, Honoré also...
Summer Boy: Christophe Honoré Sets Up New Feature Film in Paris
We can mark down a new feature film from Christophe Honoré for the 2024 calendar as the Paris-based filmmaker is setting up shop for...
Gentleman’s Club: Melanie Laurent Finds Prized Possessions in “Sulak”
After teaming with the French filmmaker with The Mad Women’s Ball (Le bal des folles) a TIFF selection in 2021, Amazon Prime Video France...
Crash & Learn: Thierry de Peretti Buckles Up for “À son image”
A pandemic hiccup might have slightly pushed back the production start date (we mentioned the project when it got a leg up via the...
Suck Your Blood: Antonin Peretjatko Lands Laure Calamy & Vimala Pons for “Vade retro”
French filmmaker Antonin Peretjatko is set to sink his teeth into his fourth feature film and he lassoed some alumni for Vade retro (formerly...
Nobody’s Hero (Viens je t’emmène) | Review
We Don’t Need Another Hero: Guiraudie Gets Kooky in Political Comedy of Errors
Alain Guiraudie migrates from rural perversity to urban calamity in the comically...
Scarlet (L’Envol) | Review
Come Sail Away: Marcello Runs Aground in Muddled Adaptation
Pietro Marcello returns to literature for inspiration in his third narrative feature (and French language debut),...
Father Figure: Anders Danielsen Lie & Woody Norman Find a Cabin in Vladimir de Fontenay’s “Sukkwan Island”
After focusing on the rift between single mother and young child in his Directors' Fortnight selected sophomore feature Mobile Homes (2017), Vladimir de Fontenay...
Tricolour Fourth: Monia Chokri Moves to France for Her Next Feature
Another small blurb in the Le film français provides us with an update on what is in the works for Monia Chokri. She might...
Leos Carax Currently Lensing “C’est pas moi” & Arnaud Desplechin Prepping “Spectateurs”
A small blurb in the Le film français profiling Charles Gillibert (and his prod company CG Cinéma) and the multi-faceted Les Films du Losange...
