Tag: Virginie Efira
Puissant Paris: Huppert, Efira, Cassel, Niney & Adam Bessa Topline Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’
Megawatt quintet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa (plus a bonus appearance by Catherine Deneuve) will populate Asghar Farhadi's...
Make No Promises: Virginie Efira & Arieh Worthalter Topline Kruithof’s ‘Les Braises’
In a double Virginie Efira casting news type of day, we learn that after dropping in Rebecca Zlotowski's Vie Privée, the actress will move...
Murder She Notes: Efira, Amalric, Lacoste & Luana Bajrami Join Zlotowski’s ‘Vie Privée’
Last week, we got the confirmation that Jodie Foster and Daniel Auteuil were toplining Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée and now we have a more...
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...
Rien à perdre (All to Play For) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Other People’s Children: Deloget Butts with Bureaucracy in Familial Drama
Virginie Efira continues to explore the arduous spectrum of contemporary motherhood in her latest film,...
2023 Cannes Clip: Efira Tries to Keep Family Together in Delphine Deloget’s All To Play For (Rien à perdre)
Shoring up in Cannes with two features, Virginie Efira is cast as a mother going the twelve rounds in Delphine Deloget's feature debut All...
Les Enfants des Autres (Other People’s Children) | Review
Sex and Longing: Efira Shines in Zlotowski’s Portrait of Missed Opportunities
In a celebrated tradition of quietly personal characterizations French cinema is known for, Rebecca...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #22. Valérie Donzelli’s L’amour et les forêts
L’amour et les forêts
Adapted alongside Audrey Diwan, Valérie Donzelli moved into the turbulent relationship terrain with her sixth feature film. The book-to-film project features...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #123. Delphine Deloget’s Rodéo
Rodéo
Not to be confused with last year's Un Certain Regard title about street smarts and dirt bikes from Lola Quivoron, Delphine Deloget's Rodéo is...
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...
Larger Ecosystems: Valérie Donzelli Leads Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud to “L’amour et les forêts”
A lawyer and client pairing in Justine Triet's In Bed with Victoria, Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud will team up as an admirer and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #27. Rebecca Zlotowski’s Les enfants des autres
Les enfants des autres (Other People’s Children)
Directly after premiering her fourth feature film Une fille facile (An Easy Girl) in the Directors' Fortnight section,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #30. Serge Bozon’s Don Juan
Don Juan
In 2013's Tip Top and 2017's Mrs. Hyde we've come to fully appreciate his brand of cinema and with his fifth project we're...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #47. Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris
Revoir Paris
She's three features into her filmography and we feel like she's one perfectly mapped out film from breaking out bigger than she has...
Benedetta | Review
Blaspheme, Queen: Verhoeven Turns to Nunsploitation in Erotic Melodrama
Occupying a dazzling intersection of exploitation and queer historical recuperation is the long-awaited Benedetta from Dutch...
Piece of the Puzzle: Alice Winocour Books Virginie Efira for “Revoir Paris”
Augustine, Maryland and Proxima filmmaker Alice Winocour is set to begin production on her fourth feature film with production beginning this month and lasting...
2021 Giornate degli Autori: Plenty of First Features Plus Antoine Barraud, Iván Fund & Aly Muritiba
And finally it's the Giornate degli Autori folks headed by topper Gaia Furrer that have unveiled their sidebar selections. Of the ten feature films...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #10. Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta
Benedetta
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne...
Sibyl | Review
Doctor Strange: Triet Gets Tricky with Autofiction Affair
Reuniting with Virginie Efira, the lead from her 2016 sophomore breakout Victoria (aka In Bed with Victoria),...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #2. Benedetta – Paul Verhoeven
Benedetta
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Written by David Birke, Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Virginie Efira, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Daphne...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #60. Night Shift – Anne Fontaine
Night Shift
French director Anne Fontaine continues to be a perennial presence in 2020 with her seventeenth feature, Night Shift (formerly titled Police). Produced by...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 12 – Justine Triet’s Sibyl
And the final film to roll out of the competition this year belongs to that of Justine Triet. She came to fiction film by way...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #1. Benedetta – Paul Verhoeven
Benedetta
Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven made a whopping comeback with his first French language film in 2016’s Elle, which snagged Isabelle Huppert (check out our...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #62. Sibyl – Justine Triet
Sibyl
Following the runaway success of her 2016 sophomore film Victoria, director Justine Triet returns with the highly anticipated dramedy Sibyl, filmed in secret over...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #3. Paul Verhoeven’s Blessed Virgin
Blessed Virgin
Paul Verhoeven famously returned from a decade long absence with a bang in 2016, unveiling the controversial Elle (read ★★★★ review) at the Cannes...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #63. Joachim Lafosse’s Keep Going
Keep Going
Belgian director Joachim Lafosse knows something about keep on keeping on, forging quickly ahead with his eighth feature Keep Going just as his...
Elle | Blu-ray Review
Isabelle Huppert scored some of the best notices of her prolific career with Paul Verhoeven’s Elle. The Dutch auteur’s French language debut, which premiered...
Elle | Review
Losing Her Religion: Verhoeven Directs a Fearless Huppert in Provocative Psychological Thriller
Arriving with a knotty snarl of perverse commentary, Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven proves...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Paul Verhoeven Brings Loaded “Elle” to the Table
Elle not only sees Paul Verhoeven's long awaited return to the Croisette (his only ever Cannes showing being 1992's Basic Instinct) but it also counts as...
Caprice | 2016 My French Film Festival Review
You Will Love a Tall Blonde Actress: Mouret Plays a Man Most Wanted in Latest RomCom
Perhaps what’s most refreshing about actor/writer/director Emmanuel Mouret’s latest...
