Tag: Jean Labadie

Fuori | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Hoosegow Girls: Martone Pays Delicate Tribute to Goliarda Sapienza “Never refuse to see the unpleasant aspects of life,” wrote Goliarda Sapienza in her widely...

Interview: Lisandro Alonso – Eureka

It would be the longest hap between films and certainly his most ambitious project to date (it was rumored to span all the continents...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #91. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s As Bestas

As Bestas Spanish helmer Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been shooting up the charts with multiple projects for just over the past decade. Best known to international...

La Fracture | 2021 Cannes Film Festival Review

Conqueror Worms: Corsini Juggles Metaphors in Strangely Asymmetrical Social Issue Film Director Catherine Corsini metastasizes an ensemble exercise for her eleventh feature, La Fracture, a...

Pinocchio | Review

Nose the Ropes: Garrone Renovates Collodi’s Classic Children’s Text Sometime over the past century, the cinematic conception of the fairy tale has enabled a movement...

Interview: Marcello Fonte – Dogman

We witnessed a bridge with Italian cinemaʼs past with the pair of comp offerings in Cannes last year. Along with Happy as Lazarro, there...

Criterion Collection: Beyond the Hills | Blu-ray Review

For his third film, and his follow-up to his 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu, titan of...

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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.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...