Tag: Patrick Becker

Lubo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

Children of a Lesser God: Diritti Highlights Swiss War Crimes in Prolonged Drama The actual history being explored in Giorgio Diritti’s three-hour drama Lubo is...

Continental Drift (South) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Conventional Liaisons: Baier Leans into the Comedy of Crisis Through Familial Rift Swiss director Lionel Baier completes the third section of an intended four part...

La ligne | Review

Fists Out of Pocket: Meier Mines Superficial Dysfunction with Uneven Comic Melodrama Although she’s been working on a variety of documentary and short projects, not...

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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.