Tag: Marion Cotillard
The Ice Tower (La Tour de Glace) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Hearts of Glass: Hadžihalilović Casts a Wintry Spell
A chilly scene of winter unfolds in La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower) at a glacial...
Snow Queen: Marion Cotillard Toplines Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “La Tour de glace”
ARTE France Cinéma have thrown their support behind a quintet of projects and among them we find Lucile Hadzihalilovic re-teaming with Marion Cotillard for...
Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
I’m Not One of Your Fans: Desplechin Delivers Camp Classic with Failed Melodrama
No one depicted in Frère et soeur (Brother and Sister), the latest...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #18. Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère et sœur
Frère et sœur
Produced by Why Not Productions' Pascal Caucheteux
Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Written by Arnaud Desplechin
Starring: Marion Cotillard, Melvil Poupaud, Golshifteh Farahani
Cinematographer: TBD
Annette | Review
Henry Fool: Music & Misogyny Explored in Glossy Return of Carax
Like nearly all of Leos Carax’s films over the past thirty years (of which...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #1. Leos Carax’s Annette
Annette
Produced by Charles Gillibert, Paul-Dominique Win Vacharasinthu
Directed by Leos Carax
Written by Ron Mael, Russell Mael
Starring: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard
Cinematographer: Caroline Champetier
Release Date/Prediction: This will...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #1. Annette – Leos Carax
Annette
Produced by Charles Gillibert, Paul-Dominique Win Vacharasinthu
Directed by Leos Carax
Written by Ron Mael, Russell Mael
Starring: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard...
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...
From the Land of the Moon | Review
The Spa of Loneliness: Garcia’s Clunky Wartime Romance
Though she’s perhaps still best known as a prolific actress, Nicole Garcia has quietly built an impressive...
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,...
Allied | Review
Only Lovers Left Alive: Zemeckis Mounts Handsome Production atop Warbling Wartime Romance
Of all the gin joints in town, he had to walk into hers....
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Dolan Comes Out with “It’s the Only the End of the World”
With the exception of what I consider his best film to date, the Venice preemed Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan's home away from home...
It’s Only the End of the World | 2016 Cannes Film Festival Review
Don’t They Know?: Dolan Delivers a Dud with Familial Drama
Though no stranger to working with French stars, Quebecois filmmaker Xavier Dolan makes his first...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Nicole Garcia Passionate About “From the Land of the Moon”
With her eighth feature film under her belt, veteran actress (Resnais' My American Uncle) turned filmmaker Nicole Garcia returns to the Cannes competition a...
On Set Spat: Amalric, Gainsbourg, Cotillard & Garrel Desplechin’s “Les Fantomes d’Ismaël”
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel and often used muse Mathieu Amalric are part of the heavyweight cast we expect to see in Arnaud...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #18. Xavier Dolan’s Juste la fin du monde
Juste la fin du monde
Director: Xavier Dolan
Writer: Xavier Dolan
During the substantial critical praise following Mommy (which tied with Jean-Luc Godard for the Jury Prize...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #38. Nicole Garcia’s Mal de pierres
Mal de pierres
Director: Nicole Garcia
Writers: Nicole Garcia, Jacques Fieschi
Actress Nicole Garcia, who has starred in unforgettable films from Claude Miller, Alain Resnais, and Jacques...
Criterion Collection: Two Days, One Night | Blu-ray Review:
Premiering at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it went home empty handed from the Jane Campion headed jury, Belgian directing duo Jean-Pierre and...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Kurzel’s “Macbeth” Avoids Tragic Fate
It was last year's most snap worthy Cannes Market one sheet image and it pretty much secured an In Comp entry the moment Marion...
Dolan Doubles Down: It’s Only the End of the World for Cotillard, Seydoux, Cassel, Ulliel & Nathalie Baye
Joining the ranks of filmmakers with insatiable appetites such as Michael Winterbottom, Francois Ozon and Woody Allen, Xavier Dolan doesn't take too much down...
The Conversation: 2015 Oscar Predix: Still Julianne Moore… Best Actress Win in the Bag
The Nominations: Best Actress
Marion Cotillard in “Two Days, One Night”
Felicity Jones in “The Theory of Everything”
Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”
Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl”
Reese...
Blood Ties | Review
Blood Simple: Canet’s English Language Debut an Enjoyably Prostrate Epic
For his English language debut, actor/director Guillaume Canet arrives with Blood Ties, a remake of...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #15. Dardenne Bros.’ Deux jours, une nuit
Deux jours, une nuit (Two days, One night)
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Writers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Producers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
U.S. Distributor: Sundance Selects
Cast: Marion...
Rust and Bone | Blu-ray Review
Building upon Canadian author Craig Davidson's short story of the same title, Rust and Bone sees director Jacques Audiard in search of amourous authenticism...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #48. James Gray’s Nightingale
Nightingale
Director: James Gray
Writer(s): Gray and Ric Menello
Producer(s): Gray, Anthony Katagas, Greg Shapiro, Christopher Woodrow
U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Co.
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #51. Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties
Blood Ties
Director: Guillaume Canet
Writer(s): Canet, James Gray, Jacques Maillot, Pilar Anguita-MacKay, Frank Urbaniok
Producer(s): Alain Attal, John Lesher, Hugo Sélignac, Christopher Woodrow
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast:...
Inside Cannes 2012 Day 2: Five Quotes from the Rust & Bone Press Conference
1. "I cut them off". - Jacques Audiard
When asked about how he made Marion Cotillard disappear, the filmmaker explains that he would not have been...
