Tag: Nicolás Celis

Forever Your Maternal Animal | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

Only Mothers Left Alive: Maurel Funnels Dysfunctional Family Matters You can't go home again and it’s a disaster to even try, especially as evidenced in...

Perdidos en la noche (Lost in the Night) | Review

Night Moves: Escalante Cultivates a Moody, Capricious Mystery Replete with a slew of customary features encountered in a fatalistic film noir, Amat Escalante’s fifth feature,...

Interview: Amat Escalante – Lost in the Night

From the very onset with his feature debut Sangre (2005), filmmaker Amat Escalante has proposed a cinema of provocation that simultaneously critiques corruption and...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #2. Amat Escalante’s Perdidos en la Noche

El estado del imperio (Lost in the Night) Produced by Nicolás Celis, Fernanda de la Peza. Directed by Amat Escalante Written by Amat Escalante, Martín Escalante, Paulina...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #2. Amat Escalante’s Perdidos en la Noche

Perdidos en la Noche Produced by Nicolás Celis, Fernanda de la Peza. Directed by Amat Escalante Written by Amat Escalante, Martín Escalante, Paulina Mendoza Starring: To be announced.   Release...

ROMA | Review

Going Home Again: Cuarón Aces Return to Mexico with Autobiographical, Intimate drama From one woman reaching the shore to another going back to it, from...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonás Cuarón’s Forsaken

Due to the film's against all odds protagonist, look for Forsaken (formerly known as Desierto) to be mentioned as a reference point to Who is...

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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...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...