Tag: Olivier Delbosc
The Quiet Son (Jouer avec le feu) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Father Knows Best: The Coulin Sisters Examine the Detrimental Ripples of Fascism
With their third feature, The Quiet Son, French directing duo Delphine and Muriel...
Hors du Temps (Suspended Time) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Time Regained: Assayas Agonizes in Pretentious Pandemic Reflection
In what stands as evidence of a surprising lack of self-awareness, director Olivier Assayas reenacts a composite...
Interview: Tran Anh Hung – The Taste of Things
In the Cannes Best Director-winning, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) the passage of time is measured in teaspoons, tablespoons and table manners....
The Taste of Things | Review
Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands
Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous...
Making Of | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
The Working Class Goes to the Back Lot: Kahn Prosaically Processes a Director’s Strife
What should cinema be and who should it be made for?...
Railing Against: Vincent Lindon & Benjamin Voisin Featured in Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s “À la hauteur”
The sister filmmaker tandem behind 17 filles (2011) and Voir du pays (2016) have put a bow on their latest feature film. The Cineuropa...
Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8
Winner of the Camera d'Or (and the Award of the Youth French Film) for The Scent of Green Papaya back in 1993, while he...
Rien à perdre (All to Play For) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Other People’s Children: Deloget Butts with Bureaucracy in Familial Drama
Virginie Efira continues to explore the arduous spectrum of contemporary motherhood in her latest film,...
2023 Cannes Clip: Efira Tries to Keep Family Together in Delphine Deloget’s All To Play For (Rien à perdre)
Shoring up in Cannes with two features, Virginie Efira is cast as a mother going the twelve rounds in Delphine Deloget's feature debut All...
A Radiant Girl (Une jeune fille qui va bien) | Review
Games of Hate & Chance: Kiberlain Curates Characterization with Tragic Wartime Portrait
In the eye of a swiftly gathering storm in the summer of 1942,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #150. Tran Anh Hung’s Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant
Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant
Entering his fourth decade of filmmaking which began all the way back with the Cannes Film Festival Caméra d'Or winning...
Stars at Noon | Review
White Material: Denis Heats Up with Sinister, Nervy Romance
Claire Denis leaves behind the Sandinistas of 1984 Nicaragua for Stars at Noon, based on the...
Both Sides of the Blade | Review
Lover Come Back: Denis Lets the Dark Side in Relationship Melodrama
Three’s definitely a crowd in Both Sides of the Blade (Avec amour et acharnement),...
Lost Illusions | Review
F is for Fake: Giannoli Highlights Prescience in Adaptation of Balzac Classic
The erosion of romanticism and idealism is at the core of Honore de...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #5. Claire Denis’ The Stars at Noon
The Stars at Noon
Produced by Olivier Delbosc
Directed by Claire Denis
Written by Claire Denis, Andrew Litvack
Starring: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Danny Ramirez
Cinematographer: Eric Gautier
...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #13. Claire Denis’ Avec amour et acharnement (aka Feu)
Avec amour et acharnement (Both Sides of the Blade)
Produced by Curiosa Films' Olivier Delbosc
Directed by Claire Denis
Written by Claire Denis, Christine Angot
Starring: Juliette Binoche,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #4. Claire Denis’ Fire
Fire (fka Radioscopie)
Produced by Olivier Delbosc
Directed by Claire Denis
Written by Claire Denis
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, Gregoire Colin.
Release Date/Prediction: Most likely Venice.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #53. Emmanuel Carrère’s Le quai de Ouistreham
Le quai de Ouistreham
Emmanuel Carrère’s first feature, La Moustache (starring Vincent Lindon and Emmanuelle Devos) was adapted from his own novel and premiered at Cannes...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #36. Le quai de Ouistreham – Emmanuel Carrère
Le quai de Ouistreham
It’s been fifteen years since writer Emmanuel Carrère’s 2005 narrative debut La Moustache. Just as his own novel Limonov has been...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #61. Comédie humaine – Xavier Giannoli
Comédie humaine
France’s Xavier Giannoli scored a sleeper hit with 2018’s supernatural tinged drama The Apparition starring Vincent Lindon (scoring a Cesar nod for newcomer...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #38. Farewell to the Night (L’Adieu a la nuit) – André Téchiné
Farewell to the Night (L’Adieu a la nuit)
French auteur André Téchiné reunites with Catherine Deneuve for the eighth time with Farewell to the Night...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #104. Convoi exceptionnel (Wide Load) – Bertrand Blier
Convoi exceptionnel
The soon-to-be 80-year-old Bertrand Blier breaks a ten-year hiatus from directing with Convoi exceptionnel (Wide Load), a comedy which reunites him with Gerard Depardieu,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #147. Curiosa – Lou Jeunet
Curiosa
French director Lou Jeunet makes her directorial debut with Curiosa, produced by Olivier Delbosc for Curiosa Films. Lensed by Simon Roca (9 Fingers, 2017),...
Interview: Meryem Benm’Barek – Sofia | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
By way of the young, unmarried Moroccan titular protagonist, Meryem Benm'Barek cuts her teeth with a piece that looks at the unwanted pregnancy under the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #15. Erick Zonca’s Black River
Black River
Director: Erick Zonca
Writer: Erick Zonca, Lou de Fanget Signolet
French director Erick Zonca scored his most critically acclaimed hit with his 1998 debut The...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #77. André Téchiné’s Quand on a 17 ans
Quand on a 17 ans
Director: André Téchiné
Writer(s): Celine Sciamma, André Téchiné
French auteur André Téchiné will be ready with his twenty-first feature in 2016, Quand...