Tag: Héloïse Pelloquet

Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Chef’s Kiss: Bonnin Uses Familiar Recipe in Pleasant Debut For her directorial debut, Partir un Jour (Leave One Day), based on her own 2021 Cesar...

Interview: Sofia Alaoui – Animalia

When the balance of the universe is disturbed, the hierarchy of nature's totem can be reconfigured. If the earth's creatures are more closely attuned...

Interview: Kamal Lazraq – Les meutes (Hounds)

Seeping with film noir elements, but working with a naturalism and with a moody underworld thriller genre with a certain dose of spirituality and...

Les meutes (Hounds) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review

Wash Away Your Sins: The Apple Falls a Bit Further Out From the Tree in Lazraq’s Stunning Debut Father and son learn the power of...

Petite Solange | Review

Bonjour Tristesse: Ropert Explores Rude Awakenings in Tender Coming-of-Age Portrait “What am I doing in this world?” wrote Paul Verlaine in his classic poem “The...

2022 Prix Louis-Delluc Noms: Saint Omer Lands Rare Double Noms As Best Film & Best First Film

A double winner in Venice this past September with the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize and Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future award,...

2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week

There have been some past editions that have been French/Euro heavy, but for the most part, the programme Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique)...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #99. Héloïse Pelloquet’s La Passagère

La Passagère For almost a decade now Héloïse Pelloquet has cut her teeth as an editor -- mostly in the narrative short film format with...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

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.