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Orphan | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review

I Will Be Your Father Figure: Nemes Paints Period Paternity Thriller Hungarian director László Nemes essentially rounds out a thematic trilogy with his third film...

The Most Precious Of Cargoes | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

The Zone of Disinterest: Hazanavicius Reanimates the Holocaust in Moral Fable What’s most interesting about director Michel Hazanavicius are his valiant attempts at dabbling in...

La syndicaliste | Review

Comedy of Power: Huppert Shines in Whistleblower Expose from Salomé Making a rare appearance in a ‘based on a true story’ film, Isabelle Huppert elevates...

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...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #28. Jean-Paul Salomé’s La Syndicaliste

La Syndicaliste (The Sitting Duck) Jean-Paul Salomé moves the pendulum from crime caper to crime thriller but with biopic elements in his second consecutive project...

2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section

In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #60. Night Shift – Anne Fontaine

Night Shift French director Anne Fontaine continues to be a perennial presence in 2020 with her seventeenth feature, Night Shift (formerly titled Police). Produced by...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #10. J’accuse – Roman Polanski

J’accuse Controversial director Roman Polanski embarks on his 22nd film production J’accuse this fall, a recuperation of the infamous Dreyfus Affair which he’s been working...

Reinventing Marvin | 2018 Outfest Film Festival Review

Jewel of Denial: Fontaine Focuses on Class and Queerness in Coming-Out Portrait French director Anne Fontaine continues to surprise with her varied filmography, turning her...

Interview: Michel Hazanavicius – Godard Mon Amour (aka Redoubtable)

Declared sacrilege the moment the project was announced, Michel Hazanavicius focuses on a critical, artistic, existential, and perhaps creative calamity period in both the masses...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #32. Guy Maddin’s Spiritismes

Spiritismes Director: Guy Maddin Writer(s): Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk Producer(s): Phyllis Laing U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine Chaplin, Maria de Medeiros, Mathieu Amalric, Udo Kier, Amira...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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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.