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They Could Go on Singing: Cattaneo Conducts Choir in Formulaic Melodrama
Director Peter Cattaneo resurfaces for his first narrative feature in over a decade...
The Girl Most Likely To…: Giedroyc Returns with Novel Coming-of-Age Dramedy
In several respects, the trajectory of How to Build a Girl isn’t inherently new---a...
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.