Tag: Monia Chokri

Time for Change: Anna Cazenave Cambet Begins Production on ‘Love Me Tender’ with Vicky Krieps, Reinartz, Chokri & Ji-Min Park

French filmmaker Anna Cazenave Cambet was setting up shop for her sophomore feature with Vicky Krieps and Antoine Reinartz (Anatomy of a Fall fame)...

Interview: Monia Chokri & Magalie Lépine Blondeau – The Nature of Love

In a creative output that saw her add a harvest of three feature films in the last five years, after 2019's A Brother's Love...

The Nature of Love | Review

Heart in the Right Place: Chokri Lets the Body & the Camera Do the Talking in Rom Dramedy French Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri adds another...

2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected

Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon Lake, R.M.N. and The Worst Ones. This year's...

Tricolour Fourth: Monia Chokri Moves to France for Her Next Feature

Another small blurb in the Le film français provides us with an update on what is in the works for Monia Chokri. She might...

2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10

We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...

Interview: Charlotte Le Bon – Falcon Lake

Selected for the Directors' Fortnight in 2022, Charlotte Le Bon's assured directorial debut was among the highlights of the section and since its launch...

Falcon Lake | Review

Baptism by Water: Unrequited Longing & Fear Found in Le Bon's Simmering Debut In a perfect swirl of the uninitiated and inhibition, in her directorial...

2023 Cannes: Debut Films by Molly Manning Walker, Felipe Galvez & Delphine Deloget Sprinkle the Un Certain Regard Section

With the likes of Return to Seoul, Godland, Corsage, War Pony and The Worst Ones, last year's Un Certain Regard section was a vintage...

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Directors’ Fortnight

The Director's Fortnight didn't simply give itself a new coat of paint but rather a heart transplant. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is now a thing...

An Affair to Remember: Magalie Lépine Blondeau Toplines Monia Chokri’s “Simple Comme Sylvain”

Coming off the still-fresh release of her sophomore film in Babysitter (it was a Sundance world preem albeit virtual edition), production has already begun...

2022 Sundance Film Festival: Monia Chokri, Mimi Cave, Hanna Bergholm & Christian Tafdrup Scare Up Midnight Section

It'll be a truly international Midnight section for 2022 with the half dozen offerings. We got representation from Spain and Carlota Pereda's PIGGY, Denmark...

No Adult Supervision: Monia Chokri Casts Herself & Nadia Tereszkiewicz in “Baby-sitter”

Late last month we learned that Monia Chokri has found her quartet of players for her sophomore feature film set to begin production this...

La femme de mon frère | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review

Is There a Doctorate in the House? Chokri Skids and Skates without Moving Moving from her award-winning short Quelqu'un d’extraordinaire (2013) debut which dealt with...

Monia Chokri’s La Femme De Mon Frère | 2019 Cannes Film Festival

After dealing with separation necessity in her award-winning short Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire (2013), Monia Chokri's deals in separation anxiety with La Femme de mon frère (A Brother’s...

2019 Cannes Film Festival: Balagov, Honoré, Dumont, Annie Silverstein & Monia Chokri in the Un Certain Regard

Kantemir Balagov will be returning to the section that he made waves in with his fascinating debut film (Closeness), Croisette acolytes Bruno Dumont and Christophe...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #96. La femme de mon frère (My Brother’s Wife) – Monia Chokri

La femme de mon frère French-Canadian actress Monia Chokri makes her directorial debut with My Brother’s Wife (La femme de mon frère). Produced by Nancy...

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