Tag: Hippolyte Girardot

Mama Weed | Review

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,...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #26. La Daronne – Jean-Paul Salomé

La Daronne Director Jean-Paul Salomé’s international reputation should expand significantly with his eighth feature, La Daronne aka Mama Weed, adapted from a celebrated novel by...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #45. La Daronne – Jean-Paul Salomé

La Daronne Director Jean-Paul Salomé nets Isabelle Huppert for his eighth feature, La daronne, which is based on a novel by popular crime writer Hannelore...

Ismael’s Ghosts (Director’s Cut) | Review

Call Me, Ismael: Desplechin Presents Jumbled Portrait of the Artist as a Dulled Man Perhaps not since the quill of Charles Dickens, wherein iconic Ebenezer...

Life of Riley | Review

Time to Leave: Alain Resnais’ Elegant Swan Song Alain Resnais, that reluctant member of the French New Wave, passed away in March of 2014, not...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #122. Alain Resnais’ Life of Riley

The Life of Riley Director: Alain Resnais Writers: Alain Resnais, Jean-Marie Bessett, Laurent Herbiet, Caroline Silhol Producer: Jean-Louis Livi U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Sandrine Kilberlain, Sabine Azema, Andre...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #43. Pascale Ferran’s Bird People

Bird People Director: Pascale Ferran Writer(s): Ferran and Guillaume Bréaud Producer(s): Archipel 35's Denis Freyd U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Radha Mitchell, Josh Charles, Clark Johnson, Anaïs Demoustier, Roschdy...

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