Tag: Yves Cape
Dreams | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Magnificent Obsession: Franco Finds Love is a Hopeless Place
Michel Franco lassos Jessica Chastain into his continued class conflict examinations in Dreams, an intimate portrait...
Memory | Review
Remembrance of Things Past: Franco Bargains for Benevolence in Purgative Love Story
“Memory is something so complex that no list of all its attributes could...
Interview: Michel Franco – Memory
Unwaveringly dedicated to a cinema of provocation, even if it may appear excessive to more sensitive viewers, auds at the Venice (and Toronto) Film...
More Than Ever (Plus que jamais) | Review
When the Body Speaks: Krieps & Ulliel Fight for the Right Balance in Atef’s Final Voyage Drama
A too young to die portrait that sees...
San Francisco Treat: Michel Franco Dreams of the West Coast with “Dos Lados”
Location, Location, Location. After the affluent neighbourhood somewhere in Mexico with New Order, the wasteland of Acapulco with Sundown and more recently, the New...
Peaceful (De son vivant) | Review
The Big C Minus: Bercot Submerges Maudlin Disease Drama with Sentimentality
Cancer isn’t the only element degrading the lives of those defined by it in...
Sundown | Review
Slaughter House Rules: Franco Continues with Cinema of Distress
The English playwright Robert Bolt wrote “Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.”...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #48. Emily Atef’s Plus que jamais
Plus que jamais (More Than Ever)
Having worked on several television projects since competing for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival with...
New Order | Review
How Does It Feel, To Treat Me Like You Do?: Franco Flies Into Traumas of Totalitarianism
It’s a sign of the times, wherein an apocalyptic...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #49. De son vivant – Emmanuelle Bercot
De son vivant
It seems director Emmanuelle Bercot remains nearly inextricable from Catherine Deneuve, as the director and icon are reuniting on Bercot’s sixth feature,...
Interview: Michel Franco – Las hijas de Abril | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
Having been ardent fan of this filmmaker since being introduced to his minimalist essay on how an assault on the affluent can infuse toxicity...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #23. The Dreams of a Few – Michel Franco
The Dreams of a Few
Mexican director Michel Franco will shortly move into production on his sixth feature, The Dreams of a Few (Lo que algunos...
