Tag: Lyna Khoudri
L’Empire (The Empire) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Satire Strikes Back: Dumont Claims His Own Multi-Verse
It’s sometimes difficult to predict what mode French auteur Bruno Dumont will be choosing for his...
2023 ARTE France Cinéma: Tarik Saleh’s “Les Aigles de la République” & Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Secret Agents” on Dock!
ARTE France Cinéma are throwing their support behind the new projects (which will drop in 2025) from Albert Serra, Hafsia Herzi, Kleber Mendonça Filho...
Out of this World: Lyna Khoudri Joins Bruno Dumont’s “L’Empire”
A film project that originally had (at different junctures) the likes of Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp and Adèle Haenel had a change of fleet...
Lyna Khoudri & Anders Danielsen Lie Are Courted for Victoria Musiedlak’s “La vie sauvage”
We've got some early casting news for a project that'll begin filming only late in the year and one that combines the likes of...
Gagarine | Review
Favorites of the Moon: Liatard and Trouilh Stargaze Through the Rubble of Resistance
Yuri (Alseni Bathily) seems to be the glue holding his community together...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #39. Mounia Meddour’s Houria
Houria
Another Un Certain Regard breakout filmmaker, Mounia Meddour quietly began filming her sophomore film this past September on a project that reunited her with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #84. Cédric Jimenez’s Novembre
Novembre
Perhaps France's answer to Antoine Fuqua, Cédric Jimenez has padded his decade long filmography working mostly with gritty texts that either get in tight...
The French Dispatch | Review
Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic
Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #62. Aurélia Georges’ La Place d’une autre
La Place d’une autre (The Place of Another)
Director Aurélia Georges promises to be a breakout in 2021 with her third project La Place d’une...
Papicha | Review
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: Meddour Goes Back to Black Decade with Debut
Fashion is certainly far from one’s mind when dealing with...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #125. Gagarine – Fanny Liatard / Jérémy Trouilh
Gagarine
Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh make their directorial debut with Gagarine (based on their 2015 short), produced by Julie Billy and Carole Scotta. Their...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #3. Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch
More croissant than cronut, Wes Anderson returns to the red, white and blue but of the Hotel Chevalier and Jacques Cousteau sort...