Tag: Tahar Rahim
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...
The Kindness of Strangers | Review
Strife Itself: Scherfig Delivers Major Misfire with Manhattan Set Melodrama
Lest we forget, it was Blanche Dubois, the broken seductress of Tennessee Williams’ classic A...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #110. The Kindness of Strangers – Lone Scherfig
The Kindness of Strangers
Dogme 95 alum Lone Scherfig continues in English for her tenth film, The Kindness of Strangers, a Danish-Canadian co-production, which takes...
Maria Monge’s Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Where Maria Monge's Treat Me Like Fire excels is in abiding by a frenetic fuelled street film that is more steeped in fantasy, than...
The Price of Success | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
The Price of Life: Lussi-Modeste’s Modest Profile on the Sacrifice of Fame and Fortune
Director Teddy Lussi-Modeste scored positive notices for his 2011 debut Jimmy...
Daguerrotype | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review
Spirits of the Dead: Kurosawa Continues Ghostly Leitmotifs in First French Language Film
Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes a surprise venture into French language cinema...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #80. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Woman in the Silver Plate
The Woman in the Silver Plate
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Catherine Paille
Japanese master Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been involved with a number of projects over...
The Cut | Review
Third Cut is the Deepest: Akin’s Barren Examination of Armenian Genocide
Turkish-German director Fatih Akin concludes his decade in the making ‘Love, Death, and the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #63. Elie Wajeman’s Les Anarchistes
Les Anarchistes
Director: Elie Wajeman // Writers: Elie Wajeman, Gaelle Mace
Elie Wajeman’s directorial debut, Aliyah, landed at Cannes in 2012 in the Director’s Fortnight. An interesting character...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #39. Fatih Akin’s The Cut
The Cut
Director: Fatih Akin
Writer: Fatih Akin
Producers: Fatih Akin, Karl Baumgartner, Reinhard Brundig, Fabienne Vonier
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Tahar Rahim, George Georgiou, Akin Gazi
It's when...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #73. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central
Grand Central
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Writer(s): Zlotowski and Gaëlle Macé
Producer(s): Les Films Velvet's Frédéric Jouve
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Tahar Rahim, Olivier Gourmet, Denis Ménochet
I'm...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #77. Asghar Farhadi’s The Past
The Past
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Producer(s): Memento Films' Alexandre Mallet-Guy
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim
Despite the few details we know on this immigrant...
