Tag: Ruben Impens

Alpha | 2025 Cannes Film Festival 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...

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