Tag: Laurence Briaud

Another Day (Garance) | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Rosé is the Warmest Color: Herry Explores a Liver of No Return In several ways, Jeanne Herry’s latest socially conscious drama Garance (unfortunately outfitted with...

Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

I’m Not One of Your Fans: Desplechin Delivers Camp Classic with Failed Melodrama No one depicted in Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister), the latest...

Desplechin gets Ish with “Ismael’s Ghosts” | DVD Review

A star-studded cast can’t quite save Arnaud Desplechin’s troubled dramedy Ismael’s Ghosts, which opened the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition entry (a...

Ismael’s Ghosts (Director’s Cut) | Review

Call Me, Ismael: Desplechin Presents Jumbled Portrait of the Artist as a Dulled Man Perhaps not since the quill of Charles Dickens, wherein iconic Ebenezer...

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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...