Tag: Jeanne Lapoirie
Planète B | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Say My Name Say My Name: Rapin Conquers Hearts, Minds and VR HeadSets in Wonky Digital Dystopia Piece
After exploring themes of rebirth and reincarnation...
Exclusive Clip: Invalid Expire Dates in Aude Léa Rapin’s ‘Planet B’
After splashing in the Critics' Week section on the Croisette with Heroes Don't Die (2019), Aude Léa Rapin returns to another Critics' Week section...
Last Summer (L’Été dernier) | Review
One Deadly Summer: Breillat Agitates Another Sexual Taboo
Suddenly, last summer, a successful lawyer who has it all risks throwing her life away with an...
Interview: Léa Drucker – Last Summer (L’été dernier)
She was pulled from obscurity (or non-retirement since her last feature was 2013's Abuse of Weakness) when Saïd Ben Saïd optioned the rights to...
Laying Brick: Robin Campillo to Shoot “Enzo” this Month
The passing of the torch was confirmed around Cannes, and rather than what might have been an August shoot, Les Films de Pierre producer...
Catherine Breillat’s L’Été dernier (Last Summer) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
Almost a full decade away from the camera since, Catherine Breillat returns to the competition with L'Été dernier (Last Summer). This is her second...
Catherine Corsini’s Le retour (Homecoming) – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1
The second film in the comp and first French film item and one of seven feature debuts from female filmmakers comes with an interesting...
Le retour | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Put a Label on It: Corsini’s Corsica is a Lieu for Inter & Intra-personal Growth
Napoleon Bonaparte’s birthplace is certainly a site rich in history...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #17. Catherine Breillat’s L’été dernier
L’été dernier
After almost a decade away from the camera, Catherine Breillat makes her return behind the camera working on a remake of Queen of Hearts...
Corsica Consciousness: Esther Gohourou & Suzy Bemba Join Corsini’s “Le retour”
Casting is complete and cameras are currently rolling on Catherine Corsini's Le retour. We recently reported that Aïssatou Diallo Sagna was the first to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #24. Robin Campillo’s Vazaha (fka Les Blancs)
École de l’air
We thought there might be an outside chance that this might shore up in 2021 - but we were dead wrong as...
Benedetta | Review
Blaspheme, Queen: Verhoeven Turns to Nunsploitation in Erotic Melodrama
Occupying a dazzling intersection of exploitation and queer historical recuperation is the long-awaited Benedetta from Dutch...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #10. Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta
Benedetta
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #2. Benedetta – Paul Verhoeven
Benedetta
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne...