Tag: Nico Leunen

Maldoror | Review

Investigation of a Citizen Under Suspicion: Du Welz Revisits Bungled Belgian Murder Case “It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is...

Harvest | Review

Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...

Holly | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

The Girl with All the Gifts: Torch Tiptoes into Genre with Aloof Drama Belgian director Fien Troch has built a steadfast filmography on quietly painful...

Angel (Un Ange) | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review

Wheels of Desire: Mortier Breaks Silence with Funereal Portrait of Dead Celebrity It was a major punchline in Mike Nichols’ version of The Birdcage (1996)...

Waste Land | 2014 TIFF Review

Fear in a Handful of Dust: Van Hees Completes Trilogy with Dark Metaphor Belgian director Pieter Van Hees completes his thematically connected "Anatomy of Love and...

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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.