Tag: Malik Zidi

Goutte d’Or (Son of Ramses) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Sun of a Gun: Cogitore Returns with Cryptic Drama on Violence, Exploitation France’s Clément Cogitore is clearly a fan of the mysterious and inexplicable sinews...

Oxygen [Video Review]

All I Need is the Air That I Breathe: Aja Gets Air/Time in Unique Thriller Alexandre Aja, initially classified as a member of the “Splat...

Mysteries of Lisbon | Review

Raul Ruiz’s Epic Literary Adaptation is a 5-hour Academic Exercise

Cassel Gets Gifted in Deluc’s Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti | Blu-ray Review

French painter Paul Gauguin receives two noted cinematic approximations in 2018. Edouard Deluc’s Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti features Vincent Cassel as the tropically consumed...

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti | Review

Tahitian Treat: Cassel Casts a Gloom in Sanitized Biopic of a Starving Artist He’s one of the more notable post-Impressionists and for the first time...

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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...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...