Tag: Isabelle Adjani
Interview: Yann Mounir Demange & Rosa Attab – Dammi (short)
Yann Mounir Demange quite literally blasted onto the scene back in 2014 with his feature debut about a stranded British soldier (Jack O'Connell) with...
Peter von Kant | Review
Save Your Tears for Another Day: Ozon Revels in the Camp Mystique of R.W. Fassbinder
It’s clear François Ozon has long been obsessed with the...
Adèle Exarchopoulos & Isabelle Adjani to Loot Mélanie Laurent’s “La Grande Odalisque”
We had very little info to work with yesterday when we broke the news that Mélanie Laurent's next project was La grande odalisque. Less...
Masquerade | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Bedos Takes the Grift Shift in French Riviera Crime Caper
For a film opening with W. Somerset Maugham’s line, “The French Riviera...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #22. François Ozon’s Peter Von Kant
Peter Von Kant
Having recently crossed off the name of Sophie Marceau on his working with great French actresses bingo card with his last film...
Sisters | Review
O Brother, Where Art Thou?: Benguigui Explores Fractured Cultural Identities in Meta Drama
It’s been two decades since French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui released her exceptional...
Quartet (1981) | Review
Of Human Bondage: Ivory Gets Art Deco Dysfunction in Underrated Rhys Adaptation
Merchant Ivory became the first major company to adapt the work of novelist...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #73. Sisters (Soeurs) – Yamina Benguigui
Sisters (Soeurs)
It’s been eighteen years since Yamina Benguigui’s critically acclaimed 2001 debut Inch’Allah dimanche, and she’s back with sophomore narrative feature Sisters (Soeurs). Benguigui...
Video: Romain Gavras’ The World is Yours (Le monde est à toi) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
We haven't been bemused by gangsta comedy genre perhaps since Guy Ritchie's bumbling idiot films, and yet with this long anticipated sophomore film, Romain...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #47. Romain Gavras’ Mr. Freeze
Mr. Freeze
Director Romain Gavras (son of Costa, brother of Julie) graduated from notable music director to film with his 2010 debut Our Day Will...
The Story of Adèle H. | Blu-ray Review
You no doubt know of a crazy local or two that mills around your town in a daze, occasionally causing disturbances, but otherwise remains...
Queen Margot | Blu-Ray Review
Arguably the most prolific title in director Patrice Chereau’s three decades of filmmaking, Cohen Media Group releases a beautiful remastering of Queen Margot for...
