Tag: Mélanie Laurent

2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 74 (Strictly) World Premiere Predictions!

It's not the opener. It's not the closer. But today the Toronto International Film Festival announced that Taika Waititi's long-gestating Next Goal Wins ...

Gentleman’s Club: Melanie Laurent Finds Prized Possessions in “Sulak”

After teaming with the French filmmaker with The Mad Women’s Ball (Le bal des folles) a TIFF selection in 2021, Amazon Prime Video France...

Adèle Exarchopoulos & Isabelle Adjani to Loot Mélanie Laurent’s “La Grande Odalisque”

We had very little info to work with yesterday when we broke the news that Mélanie Laurent's next project was La grande odalisque. Less...

All Le Mans on Deck: Mélanie Laurent Revs Up “La grande odalisque”

With a half dozen feature films under her belt in just under a decade, Mélanie Laurent will be moving into the fast lane with...

TIFF 2021: Wright’s Last Night in Soho & Davies’ Benediction Among 13 Titles Announced

With Theodore Melfi's The Starling and Antoine Fuqua's The Guilty among the thirteen titles that the Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled today we...

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...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #93. Melanie Laurent’s Galveston

Galveston There was once a time when True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto's novel to screen adaptation had Matthias Schoenaerts attached in the lead and Danish helmer...

TIFF 2017: Special Presentations World Preem Status for Gillespie, Gomez-Rejon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Sebastián Lelio

If Alexander Payne, Valerie Faris/Jonathan Dayton, Scott Cooper, Darren Aronofsky, Martin McDonagh, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig and George Clooney appear jetlagged its because they'll...

The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex

As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #48. Tran Anh Hung’s Eternité

Eternité Director: Tran Anh Hung Writer: Tran Anh Hung Vietnamese auteur Tran Anh Hung had a smoldering early career, snagging the Camera d’Or at Cannes for his...

By the Sea | Review

The Sterile Cuckoo: Jolie’s Handsome Relationship Drama is Long in Tooth Moving on from last year’s suffocatingly honorable POW reenactment drama Unbroken, Angelina Jolie returns...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #42. Tran Anh Hung’s Éternité

Éternité Director: Tran Anh Hung // Writer: Tran Anh Hung Vietnamese auteur Tran Anh Hung had a smoldering early career, snagging the Camera D’or at Cannes...

2014 TIFF: Cristián Jiménez, Ole Christian Madsen, Holdridge & Saasen, Baran bo Odar Offer World Views in CWC

If you wanted a snapshot of worldly issues then TIFF's Contemporary World Cinema programme would certainly serve as a whirlwind passport. Loaded in Cannes...

2014 Critics’ Week: Djinn Carrénard, David Robert Mitchell, Nadav Lapid & Mélanie Laurent Populate 53rd Edition

It's almost astonishing that we've managed to guess two (we also had Nadav Lapid pegged for the Main Comp) of the eleven titles unveiled by...

Enemy | Review

Identical/Identity: Villeneuve's Doppelganger Thriller a Kafkaesque Dead Ringer You can forget the pulpy throes of the dark hearted Prisoners, the recently released collaboration of Jake...

2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Claudia Llhosa’s Aloft

Madeinusa, her debut film, was a 2006 Sundance selected pic, while her sophomore drama The Milk of Sorrow was a winner in Berlin, we...

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