While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate...
Although it’s one of director Jacques Doillon’s most prolific projects in years, his 2017 biopic Rodin, headlined by revered French actor Vincent Lindon, is...
The Wails of Auguste: Doillon Presents Shapeless Biopic on the Famed French Sculptor
Unfortunately, French auteur Jacques Doillon’s high profile remounting of French sculptor Auguste...
Rodin
Director: Jacques Doillon
Writer: Jacques Doillon
Seasoned French auteur Jacques Doillon has been making films since the early 1970s and has competed on most of the...
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.