Tag: Jacques Bidou

2025 Marrakech Film Festival – Atlas Workshop: Asmae El Moudir & Laila Marrakchi Win Top Honors

Moroccan filmmakers Asmae El Moudir and Laila Marrakchi shared the €20,000 top prize ex aequo at the eighth edition of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshop, the...

Donbass | Review

Come and See: Loznitsa Crafts Overwhelming Nightmare of Modern War-torn Ukraine Dropping us directly into the wartime propaganda machine of modern-day eastern Ukraine, which has...

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness | Review

Killer Ratings: Bakhshi Brings Reality Television Gimmickry to Morbid, Potential Levels To err is human, to forgive divine---or so we’ve come to accept as a...

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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.