Our Roaring Twenties
Director: Andre Techine
Writer: Andre Techine, Cedric Anger
The perennial Andre Techine presented one of his best films to date in 2016 with Being...
Of the two recent approximations concerning US socialite and infamously self-professed chanteuse Florence Foster Jenkins, it is Xavier Giannoli’s 2015 satirical Marguerite (using her...
Sing the Body Apoplectic: Giannoli Pays Thanks to the Music
French director Xavier Giannoli borrows an obscure piece of American pop culture for his latest...
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.