Tag: Lea Mysius
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Critics’ Week
Last year's edition of Critics' Week featured the likes of Ama Gloria, Tiger Stripes and Iris Kaltenbäck's Le Ravissement -- which would become the...
Foreign Tongue (Langue étrangère) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Tongues Untied: Love Lies Easy in Burger’s Cross Culture Coming of Age Drama
There’s a lot going on in Claire Burger’s third film, Foreign Tongue...
Bubbling to the Surface: Léa Mysius To Give us a Night to Remember with “Histoires De La Nuit”
A Cannes Film Festival regular with her Critics' Week showcased Ava (in 2017) and Directors’ Fortnight selected The Five Devils (2022), Léa Mysius has...
Les Cinq diables (The Five Devils) | Review
Devil May Care: Mysius Delivers Intriguing but Disappointing Romantic Genre Mishmash
For her sophomore feature debut, director/screenwriter Léa Mysius aims high and falls hard with...
Stars at Noon | Review
White Material: Denis Heats Up with Sinister, Nervy Romance
Claire Denis leaves behind the Sandinistas of 1984 Nicaragua for Stars at Noon, based on the...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Directors’ Fortnight
1976 - Manuela Martelli
Ashkal - Youssef Chebbi
The Dam - Ali Cherri
Continental Drift (South) - Lionel Baier
Enys Men - Mark Jenkin
De...
2022 Cannes: Hansen-Løve, Winocour, Léa Mysius & Anna Rose Holmer in the Directors’ Fortnight
Pietro Marcello will be joined by the likes of Mia Hansen-Løve, Alice Winocour with sophomore features from Léa Mysius & Anna Rose Holmer in...
Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades) | Review
Same Old Song & Angst: Audiard Misfires with Millennial Love Tugs
Jacques Audiard turns to youth culture amour fou with his latest feature, Paris, 13th...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #20. Léa Mysius’ Les cinq diables
Les cinq diables
Produced by F comme Film's Jean-Louis Livi, Trois Brigands Productions' Fanny Yvonnet
Directed by Léa Mysius
Written by Léa Mysius, Paul Guilhaume.
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #14. Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th District
Paris, 13th District
Produced by Jacques Audiard, Valérie Schermann
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Written by Jacques Audiard, Léa Mysius, Céline Sciamma
Starring: Makita Samba, Noémie Merlant
Cinematographer: Paul Guilhaume
Release...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #59. Léa Mysius’ Les cinq diables
Les cinq diables
France’s Léa Mysius continues her ascension with her sophomore directorial project Les cinq diables. Starring Adele Exarchopoulos, Moustapha Mbengue and reteaming with...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #86. Les cinq diables – Léa Mysius
Les cinq diables
France’s Léa Mysius has been working on several projects but looks to have her sophomore film Les cinq diables potentially completed in...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #15. Oh Mercy – Arnaud Desplechin
Oh Mercy
French auteur Arnaud Desplechin switches things up a bit for his tenth feature film Oh Mercy (previously known as Roubaix: a Light/Roubaix: Une...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #38. Farewell to the Night (L’Adieu a la nuit) – André Téchiné
Farewell to the Night (L’Adieu a la nuit)
French auteur André Téchiné reunites with Catherine Deneuve for the eighth time with Farewell to the Night...
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...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #35. Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts
Ismael’s Ghosts
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Writer: Arnaud Desplechin, Lea Mysius, Julie Peyr
Arnaud Desplechin has been one of the most notable contemporary Gallic auteurs since the mid-1990s,...
