Tag: Michel Fau

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #39. Andre Techine’s Our Roaring Twenties

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...

Marguerite | Blu-ray Review

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...

Marguerite | Review

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...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

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...