Tag: Hélène Louvart
Romería | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Blood Relatives: Simon Treads Familiar Water with Continued Autofiction
After winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for her 2022 sophomore film Alcarras,...
Vital Vigo: Newcomers Llúcia Garcia & Mitch Topline Carla Simón’s ‘Romería’
Last September, we had the first details on what Summer 1993 and Golden Bear winning Alcarràs (read review) filmmaker Carla Simón was cooking up...
Firebrand | Review
One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due
The Tudor era has maintained public fascination for the past five hundred years, a linchpin...
Motel Destino | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Destiny Indemnity: Ainouz Retrofits a Noir Classic
“Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more, it’s hate,” wrote James M. Cain...
La Chimera | Review
The Passionate Thief: Rohrwacher Finds Treasures Under the Tuscan Sun
“The sun is following us,” whispers a willowy blonde in the enigmatic opening moments...
Disco Boy | Review
Mal Travaille: Abbruzzese Finds the Rhythm of the Night in Hypnotic Debut
“E’en hell hath its peculiar laws,” remarked Faust in Goethe’s eternal classic, the...
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...
Always on the Run: Karim Aïnouz Checks into “Motel Destino”
Before moving on to his next weighty film project in Rosebushpruning (set for Spring 2024), Karim Aïnouz has already begun filming his next feature...
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...
Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
A Cannes mainstay since her humble beginnings in the Directors’ Fortnight section with Corpo celeste, Alice Rohrwacher quickly ascended to comp-worthy status with the...
Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and has sprinkled his films in Venice and Berlinale...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #16. Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand
Firebrand
After a handful of films that didn’t really stick, Karim Aïnouz made a triumphant return when he premiered The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #89. Giacomo Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy
Disco Boy
A project that received backing in the shape of a Cinefondation residency and an Arte Development Prize at the Arcs Film Festival's Village...
2022 Indie Spirits Awards Noms: The Cathedral, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Murina & Aftersun Are Glowing
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, Women Talking and Bones and All are the heavyweight indies that will be properly feted the day before...
Un petit frère (Mother and Son) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Life in Rouen: Serraille Stacks Perspectives in Muted Tale of Immigration and Identity
After taking home the Camera d’Or for her 2017 feature Jeune Femme,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #9. Jaime Rosales’ Girasoles silvestres
Girasoles silvestres (Wild Sunflowers)
Produced by Bárbara Díez
Directed by Jaime Rosales
Written by Jaime Rosales, Bárbara Díez
Starring: Anna Castillo, Oriol Pla, Quim Àvila, Lluís Marquès, Manolo...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #40. Léonor Serraille’s Un petit frère
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #53. Soudade Kaadan’s Nezouh
Nezouh
Been spotting French-born Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan's fourth feature film (and second consecutive fiction) project a little bit everywhere for the past couple of...
The Lost Daughter | Review
Parallel Mothers: Gyllenhaal Paints a Dark Portrait in Sinister Ferrante Adaptation
“Attention is the purest form of hospitality,” is a quote from Simone Weil utilized...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #25. Alain Guiraudie’s Viens je t’emmène
Viens je t’emmène
Produced by Charles Gillibert
Directed by Alain Guiraudie
Written by Alain Guiraudie, Laurent Lunetta
Starring: Doria Tillier, Nathalie Boyer, Noémie Lvovsky, Jean-Charles Clichet.
Cinematographer: Hélène Louvart
Release...
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Review
The Story of Women: Hittman Hits Home Run with Stellar, Topical Abortion Drama
How often have you seen an abortion drama, in any language, which...
All the Dead Ones | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Turn and Face the Strange: Caetano & Gotardo Navigate Displacement in Stellar Period Piece
The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women read “It’s...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #7. Todos Os Mortos – Marco Dutra & Caetano Gotardo
Todos Os Mortos
Produced by Clément Duboin, Maria Ionescu, Sara Silveira
Directed by Marco Dutra & Caetano Gotardo
Written by Marco Dutra & Caetano Gotardo...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #147. Sous le ciel d’Alice – Chloé Mazlo
Sous le ciel d'Alice
For her directorial debut, celebrated short film director Chloé Mazlo will have Sous le ciel d’Alice (translated as Under Alice’s Sky) on...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #11. Eliza Hittman’s Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always
Known for her sharp assessment of the youth culture class in It Felt Like Love and Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman has...
Maya | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Maya Love is Your Love: Hansen-Love Stumbles with Sluggish Romantic Drama
Following on the heels of her most widely acclaimed feature to date, 2016’s Things...
Video: Jaime Rosales’ Petra | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Know for his deliberately difficult art-house films it's with this move away tragi-drama bliss where we're left scratching our head thinking why the hell...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
Buoyant Bangalore: Kolinka, Banerjee, Descas & Johanna ter Steege Set for Hansen-Løve’s “Maya”
The set pieces (people and locations) are finalized and put in place for Mia Hansen-Løve's Maya, the multiple territory, global trotting think piece on...
