Tag: Xavier Lavorel

Elisa | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review

Memories of Murder: Di Costanzo Treads Criminal Motives The impetus behind Elisa, the latest from Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo is pregnant with intrigue, examining...

Gloria! | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Music of the Heart: Vicario Pays Symphonic Homage to Erased History Composer Margherita Vicario makes her directorial debut with Gloria!, a period piece recuperating a...

Ariaferma (The Inner Cage) | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review

Guards and Monsters: Costanzo Finds Humanity in Balanced Ratios Utilizing the novel opportunity of how power wanes in the crumbling of an institution’s viability, Italian...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

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.