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Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)

Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential excavation of selfhood, cinema had already been preoccupied for nearly a century with the blurring...

Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias – Forastera

Set in Mallorca, Cata's summer is drenched in sun and lazy promise—until it is violently rewritten by the absurd, sudden death of her grandmother,...

My Summer with Irène | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Summertime Sadness: Sironi Escapes to Sicily in Oblique Friendship Drama There’s no running away from the past, no matter how glorious the sun dappled idyll...

Bodies Bodies Bodies | Review

On Body and Storm: Reijn Uncovers a Snake Pit of Wealthy Frenemies in Social Satire It’s Agatha Christie spliced with the frivolous escapism of social...

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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...