Tag: Xavier Giannoli
Two for 2025?: Xavier Giannoli’s “Jean et Corinne Luchaire” & Rebecca Zlotowski’s “Vie privée” Receive CNC Support
We have the first details on the next feature films from a pair of French auteurs who arguably are both coming off what might...
Lost Illusions | Review
F is for Fake: Giannoli Highlights Prescience in Adaptation of Balzac Classic
The erosion of romanticism and idealism is at the core of Honore de...
2021 Venice Film Festival: Blonde is MIA, Franco’s Sundown, Vasyanovych’s Reflection, Frammartino’s The Hole, Larrain’s Spencer in COMP
While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik's Blonde and Claire Denis' Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #79. Xavier Giannoli’s Illusions perdues
Illusions perdues
Another project lensed in 2019 held over for a 2021 premiere is the next film from France’s Xavier Giannoli, who scored a sleeper...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #61. Comédie humaine – Xavier Giannoli
Comédie humaine
France’s Xavier Giannoli scored a sleeper hit with 2018’s supernatural tinged drama The Apparition starring Vincent Lindon (scoring a Cesar nod for newcomer...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
Marguerite | Blu-ray Review
Of the two recent approximations concerning US socialite and infamously self-professed chanteuse Florence Foster Jenkins, it is Xavier Giannoli’s 2015 satirical Marguerite (using her...
Marguerite | Review
Sing the Body Apoplectic: Giannoli Pays Thanks to the Music
French director Xavier Giannoli borrows an obscure piece of American pop culture for his latest...
2015 Venice Film Festival: Guadagnino, Sokurov, Kaufman, Bellocchio & Fukunaga Compete for Golden Lion
With the exception of Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival's...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell… 2015 Cannes Film Fest Predictions
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #34. Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite
Marguerite
Director: Xavier Giannoli // Writer: Xavier Giannoli
French director Xavier Giannoli has previously helmed five features, two of them playing in competition in Cannes, including...