Tag: Lionel Massol

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...

Disco Boy | Review

Mal Travaille: Abbruzzese Finds the Rhythm of the Night in Hypnotic Debut “E’en hell hath its peculiar laws,” remarked Faust in Goethe’s eternal classic, the...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #61. Camila Beltrán’s Mi Bestia

Mi Bestia Programmers will want to keep tabs on this new voice in Colombian cinema. A filmmaker who saw her shorts compete in Clermont-Ferrand and...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #62. Mareike Engelhardt’s Rabia

Rabia A new voice in German cinema embarks on a journey that could have been pulled from the headlines but it's the destination and possible...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #89. Giacomo Abbruzzese’s Disco Boy

Disco Boy A project that received backing in the shape of a Cinefondation residency and an Arte Development Prize at the Arcs Film Festival's Village...

Lunar Lunacy: Camila Beltrán Begins Production on “Mi Bestia”

A Colombian filmmaker we've been keeping track of every since she grabbed some production fund coin (winner of the Arte Kino Prize) at the...

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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...