Tag: Olivier Pere
Interview: Lisandro Alonso – Eureka
It would be the longest hap between films and certainly his most ambitious project to date (it was rumored to span all the continents...
Interview: Sophie Letourneur – Voyages en Italie
Obviously it was always going to be Italy. Not Spain. Misadventures that take place in real life are matched by the very creative adventures...
Holy Spider | Review
Thrill Crazy. Kill Crazy. God Crazy: Abbasi Tackles Brutal Reality of Women and Islamofascism
“Every man shall meet what he wishes to avoid,” is the...
Petrov’s Flu | Review
Delirium Tremens: Serebrennikov Maddens with Post-Soviet Magical Realism
Historically, Russian cinema (and literature) always tends to go for broke. Challenging narratives, endless characters, and opulent...
Ahed’s Knee | Review
Kneedful Things: Lapid Highlights Complex Conflicts in Indignant Screech
The entirety of Ahed’s Knee, the fourth film from Israel’s Nadav Lapid, is formatted to aggravate...
Incredible But True | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review
Beauty Secrets: Dupieux Latest a Strangely Tragic Fable on Human Foibles
The films of Quentin Dupieux, a prolific Belgian director who has spent most of...
Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities with “Synonyms” | Blu-ray Review
Winning the Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, Nadav Lapid’s third film Synonyms was one of the best theatrical releases of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #38. A Chiara – Jonas Carpignano
A Chiara
Italy’s Jonas Carpignano should have his third feature, A Chiara, ready to present sometime in 2020. Produced by Olivier Pere of Arte France...
Synonyms | Review
Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities
The rejection of self and the adoption of persona are prominent themes pouring...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #5. Zombi Child – Bertrand Bonello
Zombi Child
Art-house auteur Bertrand Bonello returns with what’s described as a mix between ‘ethnology and fantasy’ for his eighth feature, Zombi Child. Following the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #8. Bergman Island – Mia Hansen-Løve
Bergman Island
Mia Hansen-Løve continues her prolific output with the French-produced English language Bergman Island, her seventh feature in just a little over a decade...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #66. Tremors (Temblores) – Jayro Bustamante
Tremors (Temblores)
Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante (under his label La Casa de Producción) reteams with France’s Tu Vas Voir and Spain’s Film Factory Entertainment for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #8. Serge Bozon’s Madame Hyde
Madame Hyde
Director: Serge Bozon
Writer: Serge Bozon
Serge Bozon’s wonky sophomore effort Tip Top was a slapstick comedy skewering racial tension and police procedures in France...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #9. Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature
A Gentle Creature
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Writer: Sergei Loznitsa
Having completed three documentaries, plus several documentary shorts since his 2012 sophomore narrative feature In the Fog, Ukrainian...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #11. Benoit Jacquot’s Eva
Eva
Director: Benoit Jacquot
Writer: Benoit Jacquot, Gilles Taurand
Several months after premiering his Don DeLillo adaptation Never Ever out of competition in Venice last September, the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #19. Ruben Ostlund’s The Square
The Square
Director: Ruben Ostlund
Writer: Ruben Ostlund
While plans are underway for an English language remake of Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s internationally lauded Force Majeure (2014),...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #28. Philippe Garrel’s One Day Lover
One Day Lover
Director: Philippe Garrel
Writer: Jean-Claude Carriere, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Arlette Langmann, Philippe Garrel
French auteur Philippe Garrel presented one of his strongest entries in years...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #62. Nadav Lapid’s Micro Robert
Micro Robert
Director: Nadav Lapid
Writer: Nadav Lapid
As the project was announced in 2015, we had high hopes the third film from Israeli director Nadav Lapid,...