Tag: Waldir Xavier

Power Alley (Levante) | Review

That Time of the Month: Halla Offers Ringside Seats to the Courts - Both On and Off In one’s timeline, it’s the pre-adulthood teenage years...

Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation | Review

Death in the Garden: Chebbi Debuts Eerie, Nuanced Murder Mystery In a supremely frightening sense, the events transpiring in Ashkal (which means ‘shapes’ in Arabic) recalls...

La caja (The Box) | Review

Father Knows Best: Vigas Caps His Father/Son Trilogy with Blunt Brutality In his long-gestating follow-up to 2014 Golden Lion winner From Afar, Venezuela’s Lorenzo Vigas...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

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.