Tag: Melvil Poupaud
Marcello Mio | Review
In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis
“I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...
Jeanne du Barry | Review
Vanity Affair: Maïwenn Tarries with Madame du Barry
For her sixth feature film, Maïwenn tackles her first period piece with Jeanne du Barry, resurrecting a...
Coup de chance | Review
Bad Luck Banging: Luck is a Fickle Mistress in Allen’s Amusing Gallic Debut
For his fiftieth (and rumored to be last) film, Woody Allen’s French...
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...
Split Level: Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve Lead Ensemble in New Honoré Film
Christophe Honoré has landed quite the cast for his next feature film. Re-teaming with daughter-mother team of Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, Honoré also...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry is the Fest Opener – Will it Slip into Competition?
Despite being selected for the competition (technically) on three occasions with 2011's Polisse, 2015's My King and 2020's Cannes Label selected DNA, we didn't...
Un beau matin (One Fine Morning) | Review
All the Mornings in the World: Seydoux Burns Bright in Hansen-Love’s Moving Drama
Hannah Arendt succinctly remarked on the inference between 'doing' and 'understanding' in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #22. Valérie Donzelli’s L’amour et les forêts
L’amour et les forêts
Adapted alongside Audrey Diwan, Valérie Donzelli moved into the turbulent relationship terrain with her sixth feature film. The book-to-film project features...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #137. Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance
Coup de Chance
Woody Allen returns to Paris for what is his 50th film and what could be a new film in the vein of...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #149. Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry
Jeanne du Barry
Set to be a distracting world premiere unveiling due to on-set difficulties, Maïwenn directs herself, Johnny Depp, Louis Garrel, Pierre Richard, Noémie...
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...
Larger Ecosystems: Valérie Donzelli Leads Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud to “L’amour et les forêts”
A lawyer and client pairing in Justine Triet's In Bed with Victoria, Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud will team up as an admirer and...
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
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #19. Mia Hansen-Løve’s Un beau matin
Un beau matin (One Fine Morning)
Produced by Les Films Pelléas' David Thion, Philippe Martin.
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory,...
Summer of 85 (Été 85) | Review
Summertime Sadness: Ozon Casts Yonder Glance at the Boys of Summer
Rare is the year without a fresh offering from perennial French favorite François Ozon,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #49. Santiago Mitre’s Petite Fleur (15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour)
Petite Fleur (15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour)
Produced by Didar Domehri
Directed by Santiago Mitre
Written by Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre
Starring: Daniel Hendler, Vimala Pons, Sergi...
Arte France Cinéma Give Coin to Hansen-Løve’s “Un beau matin” & Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Les Herbes sèches”
The Arte France Cinéma selection committee will be supporting a trio of eyebrow raising projects that will go into production in 2021. At the...
Mysteries of Lisbon | Review
Raul Ruiz’s Epic Literary Adaptation is a 5-hour Academic Exercise
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #48. Eté 85 – François Ozon
Eté 85
Director François Ozon continues to work at breakneck speed, with his 19th feature (formerly titled Eté 84 - perhaps they changed the title...
Golden Youth | 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Youth Without Youth: Ionesco Waxes and Wavers on Partying at Le Palace
Writer-director Eva Ionesco returns to semi-autobiographical inspiration for her sophomore film Golden Youth...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #10. J’accuse – Roman Polanski
J’accuse
Controversial director Roman Polanski embarks on his 22nd film production J’accuse this fall, a recuperation of the infamous Dreyfus Affair which he’s been working...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #35. By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu) – Francois Ozon
By the Grace of God
Francois Ozon’s eighteenth feature, By the Grace of God /Grâce à Dieu (previously known as Alexandre) promises to be one of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #84. A Golden Youth (Une jeunesse dorée) – Eva Ionesco
A Golden Youth (Une jeunesse dorée)
Actress and director Eva Ionesco re-teams with Isabelle Huppert for her sophomore film A Golden Youth, which also stars...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #48. Eva Ionesco’s Une jeunesse dorée
Une jeunesse dorée
Eva Ionesco, daughter of Romanian-French photographer Irina Ionesco, documented her incendiary tell-all of her tumultuous relationship with her mother in the 2011...
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...
Fidelio: Alice’s Journey | Palm Springs International Film Festival Review
Go Ask Alice: Borleteau’s Debut Examines Desire, Gender, and Maturity
Sure to be described as “European,” seemingly in the sense that it relays a familiar...
A Summer’s Tale (1996) | Review
Summer Shanty: Rohmer’s Breezy Contemplation a Welcome Resurrection
Never before released in the US, Eric Rohmer’s 1996 title, A Summer’s Tale, which is part of...
