Tag: Ruben Impens
Alpha | Review
Turn to Stone: Ducournau Hits a Wall with Disease Allegory
“Death is the cure for all illness,” wrote English writer Thomas Browne, which is a...
Animale | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Toro Toro Toro: Amamra Grabs the Bull By the Horns in Transformative Role
For those who champion the bull in Spain's electrifying yet antiquated tradition...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #62. Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains
The Eight Mountains (Le otto montagne)
After a slight detour to English language film terrain with 2018's addiction drama Beautiful Boy, Felix van Groeningen adapts...
Titane | Review
Car Crash Set: Ducournau Crafts a Cult Classic with Grotesque Odyssey of Dysfunction
In J.G. Ballard’s seminal 1973 cult novel Crash, infamously adapted in 1996...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #45. Julia Ducournau’s Titane
Titane
Produced by Jean Christophe Reymond
Directed by Julia Ducournau
Written by Julia Ducournau
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle
Cinematographer: Ruben Impens
Release Date/Prediction: Seeing that Cannes might be...
Dirty God | Review
A Woman’s Face: Polak’s Tender Melodrama Explores Struggle for Self-Love
With her third narrative feature, Dirty God, which also stands as her English language debut,...
The Mustang | Review
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?: de Clermont-Tonnerre Leads Us to Water with Minimalist Melodrama
Animal love is at the heart of Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s directorial...
