Tag: Sylvie Pialat
Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Chef’s Kiss: Bonnin Uses Familiar Recipe in Pleasant Debut
For her directorial debut, Partir un Jour (Leave One Day), based on her own 2021 Cesar...
Quiet Life | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Do You Know Where You’re Going To?: Avranas Analyzes Syndrome of a New Century
For his fifth narrative feature, Quiet Life, Greek Weird Wave alum...
Exclusive Clip: The Kids Aren’t All Right in Alexandros Avranas ‘Quiet Life’
After winning the Silver Lion for Best Director with Miss Violence (2013), Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas returns to the Lido in the Orizzonti section...
The Other Way Around | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Trueba Reinvents Couple Goals
Gloriously reminding us that we are doomed to repeat the same existential mundane experiences, in...
My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Your Friends & Neighbors: Téchiné Tries for Ethical Sentiments
Now in his eighties, director André Téchiné continues his steady, perennial output with the humanist melodrama...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #58. Guillaume Nicloux’s La Tour d’Assitan
La Tour d’Assitan (Lockdown Tower)
Upon getting a whiff of this project one can't help but feel that Gareth Evans' The Raid created a new...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #100. Céline Devaux’s Tout le monde aime Jeanne
Tout le monde aime Jeanne
In the rare case we're delighted, engaged and even surprised by French comedies (Bruno Dumont's France is a rare example...
Albatros (Drift Away) | 2021 Berlin International Film Festival Review
Bye Bye Birdie: Beauvois Bears Burdens in Old-Fashioned Melodrama
The albatross, a large white seabird with a significant wingspan, has been a symbol of a...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #94. Effacer l’historique – Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine
Effacer l'historique
Kooky Belgian duo Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine will present their ninth collaboration in 2020, Effacer l'historique, another exercise about social misfits attempting...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #102. To the Edge of Sorrow – Michel Spinosa
To the Edge of Sorrow
Michel Spinosa is helming his highest profile project to date with his fifth feature, To the Edge of Sorrow, produced...
Heroes Don’t Die | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Crimes of the Heart: Rapin Explores Mediums as Remembrance with Inquisitive Debut
The idea of reincarnation was once a virulent staple of American genre films,...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #47. The Passenger – Corneliu Porumboiu
The Passenger
Another New Romanian Wave essential, Corneliu Porumboiu borrows a moniker from Antonioni for his fifth feature, The Passenger (previously known as Gomera). A...
The Conversation: Producer Sylvie Pialat
Sylvie Pialat, wife of the late auteur Maurice Pialat, has been producing and fostering vibrant international directors following the passing of her husband in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #2. Alain Guiraudie’s Rester vertical
Rester vertical
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Writer: Alain Guiraudie
Offbeat auteur Alain Guiraudie has been making feature films since his 2003 debut No Rest for the Brave (which...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #81. Joachim Lafosse’s L’economie du Couple
L'economie du Couple
Director: Joachim Lafosse
Writers: Joachim Lafosse, Fanny Burdino, Mazarine Pingeot, Thomas van Zuylen
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse began production on L'economie du Couple several...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #5. Guillaume Nicloux’s The Valley of Love
The Valley of Love
Director: Guillaume Nicloux // Writer: Guillaume Nicloux
Even with eleven feature films under his belt, director Guillaume Nicloux remains the least recognizable...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #7. Corneliu Porumboiu’s A Nine-Minute Interval
A Nine-Minute Interval
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu
Producers: Romanian 42km Film’s Marcela Ursu and Les Films du Worso’s Sylvie Pialat
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Bogdan Dumitrache...
