Tag: Sparta

2022 TIFF: Honoré, Seidl, Pálmason, Mungiu & Gueret+Akoka in the Contemporary World Cinema Program

After front-loading the section with Canadiana last week, we now know the entire make-up of the Contemporary World Cinema Program and there are plenty...

2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part II) Aroonpheng, Lindholm, Hogg & Rolf de Heer

Only hours before TIFF unveil what should be a sizeable amount of their line-up (and in the same sweeping motion confirm a lot of...

2022 Cannes Film Festival: Eight Possible 11th Hour Film Options

Critics' Week made their line-up public yesterday. Directors' Fortnight topper Paolo Moretti mentioned that there is one title from Asia that they are still...

2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...

Piccolo Fratello: Seidl’s Wicked Games Project Spawned “Rimini” and then… “Sparta”

Minutes before Ulrich Seidl's is set to premiere his long-awaited feature, we now learn that there is a companion film that is in the can...

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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.