Tag: Philippe Martin
It Was Just an Accident | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Phantom Limb: Panahi Treads Ripples of Retribution
Jafar Panahi continues to poke the bear with It Was Just an Accident, his latest being another film...
Marcello Mio | Review
In the Name of the Father: Honore Pays Homage via Identity Crisis
“I only exist when I am working on a film,” Marcello Mastroianni...
Hall of Mirror: Sammy Lechea & Zar Amir Ebrahimi Topline Karim Moussaoui’s “The Vanishing”
After making a splash on the Croisette in 2017 with his debut feature Until The Birds Return (Un Certain Regard selection), Karim Moussaoui is...
Labor Market: Laure Calamy Toplines Anne-Sophie Bailly’s Debut “Les Inséparables”
Anne-Sophie Bailly has lassoed the multi-faceted Laure Calamy for her feature debut, Les Inséparables. Originally titled Mona, according to the folks at Cineuropa, the...
Split Level: Chiara Mastroianni & Catherine Deneuve Lead Ensemble in New Honoré Film
Christophe Honoré has landed quite the cast for his next feature film. Re-teaming with daughter-mother team of Chiara Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, Honoré also...
Winter Boy (Le Lycéen) | Review
Hazy Shade of Winter: Honore Deals with a Death in the Family in Sincere Coming-of-Age
Christophe Honoré has built an intricate filmography on the backs...
Un beau matin (One Fine Morning) | Review
All the Mornings in the World: Seydoux Burns Bright in Hansen-Love’s Moving Drama
Hannah Arendt succinctly remarked on the inference between 'doing' and 'understanding' in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #80. Katell Quillévéré’s Le Temps d’aimer
Le Temps d’aimer
Production on Katell Quillévéré's highly anticipated fourth film began in June of last year in northern, France. Anaïs Demoustier and Vincent Lacoste...
The Super 8 Years | Review
Parting Glances: Ernaux Ponders the Past with Intimate Documentary Debut
Although a prominent novelist in France over the past several decades, writer Annie Ernaux has...
Don Juan | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
A Woman is a Woman: Bozon Invokes the Eternal Seducer in Eccentric Musical
Much like Casanova, the name Don Juan has become a euphemism for...
Anaïs in Love | Review
She’s Pure as New York Snow: Bourgeois-Tacquet Charms in Effortless, Effective Comedy
With her unexpectedly charming debut, Anaïs in Love, director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet presents the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #19. Mia Hansen-Løve’s Un beau matin
Un beau matin (One Fine Morning)
Produced by Les Films Pelléas' David Thion, Philippe Martin.
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
Written by Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #44. Christophe Honoré’s Le Lycéen (Winter Boy)
Le Lycéen
Announced really late in 2021, Christophe Honoré went into production on his fourteenth with the formidable pair of Vincent Lacoste and Juliette Binoche...
On a Magical Night | Review
A Room with a Screw: Honoré Waxes Playful on Marital Discord
The flexibility (or lack thereof) of fidelity in heteronormative relationships is at the center...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #75. Passion Simple – Danielle Arbid
Passion Simple
Lebanese born French filmmaker Danielle Arbid mounts a high profile adaptation for her fifth narrative feature, Passion Simple, based on the popular 1992...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #88. Lisa Redler – Nicole Garcia
Lisa Redler
Nicole Garcia returned to work with producers David Thion and Philippe Martin for Les Films Pelleas (who produced her 2013 title Going Away...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #62. Sibyl – Justine Triet
Sibyl
Following the runaway success of her 2016 sophomore film Victoria, director Justine Triet returns with the highly anticipated dramedy Sibyl, filmed in secret over...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #136. Lisa Redler – Nicole Garcia
Lisa Redler
Actress/director Nicole Garcia commences her ninth feature with Lisa Redler, returning to work with producers David Thion and Philippe Martin for Les Films...
Maya | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Maya Love is Your Love: Hansen-Love Stumbles with Sluggish Romantic Drama
Following on the heels of her most widely acclaimed feature to date, 2016’s Things...
Buoyant Bangalore: Kolinka, Banerjee, Descas & Johanna ter Steege Set for Hansen-Løve’s “Maya”
The set pieces (people and locations) are finalized and put in place for Mia Hansen-Løve's Maya, the multiple territory, global trotting think piece on...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #18. Christophe Honore’s Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
Director: Christophe Honore
Writers: Christophe Honore
Producer: Philippe Martin
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: George Babluani, Damien Chapelle, Sebastien Hirel
While his last film, 2011’s Beloved was unfairly criticized...
