Mixed Nuts: Tedeschi Returns to Acting School in Charming, Vigorous Homage
For her fifth narrative feature, the indefatigable Valeria Bruni Tedeschi conjures a nostalgic reunion...
Summertime Sadness: Reith Explores Brotherly Love with Ominous Magical Realism
It’s a formulation as old as storytelling, two men whose love for one another is...
Sun of a Gun: Cogitore Returns with Cryptic Drama on Violence, Exploitation
France’s Clément Cogitore is clearly a fan of the mysterious and inexplicable sinews...
Finally it will be Léa Drucker in the driver's seat (and not the originally attached Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) in Catherine Breillat's now titled L'été...
She’s Pure as New York Snow: Bourgeois-Tacquet Charms in Effortless, Effective Comedy
With her unexpectedly charming debut, Anaïs in Love, director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet presents the...
I Never Sang for My Mother: Azuelos Mines Own Experiences for Dynamic Melodrama
Presenting a narrative partially autobiographical in nature with her latest film, I...
Guilt By Aviation: Gozlan Delivers Intrigue with Paranoia Tinged Tech Thriller
Director Yann Gozlan returns to the realm of social pariahs in his fourth...
Same Old Song & Angst: Audiard Misfires with Millennial Love Tugs
Jacques Audiard turns to youth culture amour fou with his latest feature, Paris, 13th...
The Face of Another: Lemercier Normalizes Weird Choices in Bizarre Biopic
Like something novel born out of a 30 Rock satire (remember the unauthorized Janis...
In the Name of the Rose: Frot Elevates Formulaic Melodrama from Pinaud
“What is life without beauty?,” inquires antiquated rosarian Eve Vernet in Pierre Pinaud’s...
Favorites of the Moon: Liatard and Trouilh Stargaze Through the Rubble of Resistance
Yuri (Alseni Bathily) seems to be the glue holding his community together...
Winner of the Cesar award for best Female Newcomer this past Friday for her perf in Audrey Diwan's Golden Lion winning L’Événement (Happening), actress...
Launching his feature filmmaking career with one of the buzz titles of the canceled 2020 Cannes edition (the Cannes Critics' Week did highlight five...
Green Eyes, They’re Crying: Maury Mines Sorrow in Tragicomic Debut
Actor Nicolas Maury crafts his own starring vehicle in My Best Part (Garçon chiffon) as...
Beauty Secrets: Dupieux Latest a Strangely Tragic Fable on Human Foibles
The films of Quentin Dupieux, a prolific Belgian director who has spent most of...
La bête
As we explored earlier on our countdown, Bertrand Bonello segued to micro-budget Coma while awaiting the greenlight for his ambitious triple era pronged...
Les enfants des autres (Other People’s Children)
Directly after premiering her fourth feature film Une fille facile (An Easy Girl) in the Directors' Fortnight section,...
Fumer fait tousser
Especially comforting in these awkward pandemic days of 2022, we'll be receiving not one, but two servings of chicken soup for the...
Un petit frère
Catapulted onto the film scene when her feature debut film Jeune Femme (aka Montparnasse Bienvenüe) was first selected for the Un Certain...
Les Amandiers
There'll definitely be some autobiographical elements in Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's fifth feature film as a filmmaker and it might be the formative years...
Novembre
Perhaps France's answer to Antoine Fuqua, Cédric Jimenez has padded his decade long filmography working mostly with gritty texts that either get in tight...
France de France: Dumont Soars with Offbeat Melodrama on Media & Misogyny
Few and far between are odd cinematic delights so deliberately off-center and...
Blaspheme, Queen: Verhoeven Turns to Nunsploitation in Erotic Melodrama
Occupying a dazzling intersection of exploitation and queer historical recuperation is the long-awaited Benedetta from Dutch...
Catfish People: Moll Returns to the Ripple Effects of Identity Issues
In the early 2000s, German born Dominik Moll was a fast-rising director of contemporary...
The Passion of Mia: Hansen-Love Makes Her Own Place at the Table
For her complex and absorbing seventh feature, Bergman Island, Mia Hansen-Løve returns to...
Augustine, Maryland and Proxima filmmaker Alice Winocour is set to begin production on her fourth feature film with production beginning this month and lasting...
Car Crash Set: Ducournau Crafts a Cult Classic with Grotesque Odyssey of Dysfunction
In J.G. Ballard’s seminal 1973 cult novel Crash, infamously adapted in 1996...
Selective Affinities: High-Fives for Huppert & Hannelore Cayre in Vivacious French Neo-noir
Often described as cold, icy, impassive, and inscrutable, the performances of Isabelle Huppert,...
Conqueror Worms: Corsini Juggles Metaphors in Strangely Asymmetrical Social Issue Film
Director Catherine Corsini metastasizes an ensemble exercise for her eleventh feature, La Fracture, a...
Sharp Shock to Your Soft Side: Theis Mines the Uncomfortable Realities of Sexuality
In the one-hundred-and-twenty-five years since the detrimental trials of Oscar Wilde and...
The Man Without a Country: Gatlif Explores the Tribulations of Redemption in Oblique Character Study
French-Algerian director Tony Gatlif remains something of a European anomaly...
Walking & Talking: Vogler Captures the Bustling & Bebopping of Distinctive Parisian Summer
Decades from now, the cinematic impact of projects conceived of and filmed...
The Flower of Her Secret: Lindon Conquers a Crush in Directorial Debut
Exemplifying the sincere transitional period Britney Spears famously moaned about when she sang...
Slippery Slopes: Favier Blends Coming-of-Age and Sexual Assault Narrative in Chilly Debut
There’s an immediate discomfort apparent in the opening act of Charlène Favier’s debut...
Love Means Never Having to Say: Garrel Continues Exploration of Love and Lust
“Love ain’t nothin’ but sex misspelled,” Harlon Ellison astutely wrote, for too...
Bye Bye Birdie: Beauvois Bears Burdens in Old-Fashioned Melodrama
The albatross, a large white seabird with a significant wingspan, has been a symbol of a...
Going Home Again: Sciamma Delivers a Slight, Eloquent Slice of Novel Sci-fi
Céline Sciamma has built a formidable filmography on tenuous stages of women’s developmental...
After portraits dealing on teenage sexuality (Water Lilies), gender identity (Tomboy), reinvention (Girlhood) and yearning (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), Céline Sciamma will...
Doctor Strange: Triet Gets Tricky with Autofiction Affair
Reuniting with Virginie Efira, the lead from her 2016 sophomore breakout Victoria (aka In Bed with Victoria),...