Tag: Hippolyte Girardot

Memories of Murder: Di Costanzo Treads Criminal Motives The impetus behind Elisa, the latest from Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo is pregnant with intrigue, examining...

Recovering from his health scare back in April, Nanni Moretti is moving back into the director's chair for Succederà questa notte (“It Will Happen...

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,...

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...

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...

A star-studded cast can’t quite save Arnaud Desplechin’s troubled dramedy Ismael’s Ghosts, which opened the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition entry (a...

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...

Ismael’s Ghosts Director: Arnaud Desplechin Writer: Arnaud Desplechin, Lea Mysius, Julie Peyr Arnaud Desplechin has been one of the most notable contemporary Gallic auteurs since the mid-1990s,...

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...

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...

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...