Tag: Karim Ainouz
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Hafsia Herzi, Óliver Laxe & Rebecca Zlotowski?
La Petite Dernière
Hafsia Herzi
Producers: June Films' Naomi Denamur and Julie Billy
World Sales: mk2
In her first pair of attempts, actress-filmmaker Hafsia Herzi has managed to...
Firebrand | Review
One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due
The Tudor era has maintained public fascination for the past five hundred years, a linchpin...
Karim Aïnouz’s Motel Destino – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9
One of the favorited Brazilian filmmakers of the Cannes film festival with Madame Satã (2002), O Céu de Suely (2006), and winner A Vida...
Motel Destino | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Destiny Indemnity: Ainouz Retrofits a Noir Classic
“Love, when you get fear in it, it’s not love any more, it’s hate,” wrote James M. Cain...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or
With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...
Always on the Run: Karim Aïnouz Checks into “Motel Destino”
Before moving on to his next weighty film project in Rosebushpruning (set for Spring 2024), Karim Aïnouz has already begun filming his next feature...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5
A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and has sprinkled his films in Venice and Berlinale...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #16. Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand
Firebrand
After a handful of films that didn’t really stick, Karim Aïnouz made a triumphant return when he premiered The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão...
Alicia Vikander is Next on the Throne: Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand Finds a Replacement for Michelle Williams
Fresh off the Cannes preemed docu Mariner Of The Mountains and a jury duty stint at the Berlinale just last week, Karim Aïnouz is setting...
2019 Cannes Film Festival: Balagov, Honoré, Dumont, Annie Silverstein & Monia Chokri in the Un Certain Regard
Kantemir Balagov will be returning to the section that he made waves in with his fascinating debut film (Closeness), Croisette acolytes Bruno Dumont and Christophe...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Through the Looking Glass: The Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #100 to #11
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...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #50. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (A Vida Invisível) – Karim Aïnouz
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (A Vida Invisível)
It’s been five years since the last narrative feature from Brazil’s Karim Aïnouz, but he’ll finally...
The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)
As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #84. Karim Ainouz’s The Beauty of Sharks
The Beauty of Sharks
Director: Karim Ainouz
Writers: Rob Green and Filip Jan Ryzma
We’ve been waiting years to see Brazilian director Karim Ainouz’s 1950 set French...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
