Tag: Koen Mortier

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

The Director's Fortnight didn't simply give itself a new coat of paint but rather a heart transplant. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is now a thing...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #177. Koen Mortier’s Skunk

Skunk Blasting onto the film scene with Ex Drummer in 2007 and followed by 22nd of May in 2010 and distinct opposites attract in Angel...

2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part II) Schanelec, Akin, Polak & Maria Schrader

With Michael Grandage's My Policeman now being confirmed as a non-Venice title (it was just been announced as a World Premiere selection) we now...

Angel (Un Ange) | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

Wheels of Desire: Mortier Breaks Silence with Funereal Portrait of Dead Celebrity It was a major punchline in Mike Nichols’ version of The Birdcage (1996)...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions III: Italy’s Sorrentino, Garrone & Rohrwacher Lead Europa Europa

It’s less than a week before the official program is unveiled for Cannes 2018 and this year’s festival already promises to be one of...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #97. Koen Mortier’s Angel

Angel Flemish director Koen Mortier ends an eight-year hiatus with third feature Angel, which relates the unfortunate demise of famed Belgian cyclist Frank Vandenbroucke, who...

Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: Picks 200 to 101

As we unveil our first tier of two hundred notable foreign film projects to be potentially unveiled in 2017, the coming year promises to...

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