Tag: Makita Samba
Kika | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Belle de Jour: Mourning Becomes Sex Work in Poukine’s Debut
There’s arguably a slippery slope at work in Alexe Poukine’s narrative debut Kika, a far...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #178. Mehdi Fikri’s Avant que les flammes ne s’éteignent
Avant que les flammes ne s'éteignent
Production took place on Mehdi Fikri's directorial debut this past October in Strasbourg, France. A former journalist for L’Humanité,...
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...
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...
Interview: Markus Schleinzer – Angelo | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival
Markus Schleinzer’s second feature Angelo (review) has had a long life on the festival circuit, premiering in Toronto (Platform section 2018) and giving wide...
Angelo | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Moor the Merrier: Schleinzer Returns with Incendiary Portrait of Indentured Servitude
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer returns with his long-awaited sophomore film Angelo, a follow-up...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #50. Markus Schleinzer’s Angelo
Angelo
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer broke into the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival with his provocative 2011 debut, Michael (which plays like...
