Talk about going back to the well: for his directorial debut, the star of Claude Berri’s Eighties Provençal standards Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring picks another tale of the French countryside previously filmed…
The affecting festival hit from Athina Rachel Tsangari about a young woman coming to terms with her father’s terminal illness is leavened with the playful perversity that has informed the puzzling work of Greek colleague Yorgos Lanthimos.…
Some art documentaries trot out talking heads to reassure us of the central importance of their subjects. Others simply confront us with the physical reality of the work, inasmuch as that’s possible. Corinna Belz’s process-oriented record of, yes, Gerhard…
Argentine filmmaker Pablo Giorgelli’s debut feature marks an important advance in contemporary neo-neorealist observational cinema through the adoption of a revolutionary new weapon in the directorial arsenal: babies. Just the one, to be precise, but that’s been enough to…
Hooked on classics, Catherine Breillat takes another fairytale for a spin, and her first step in reexamining the story of Sleeping Beauty is a logical one: what the heck did the unconscious princess dream about all that time? Her…
Lucas Belvaux’s chilly new film—the title is French for “kidnapping”—is based on the 1978 case of Edouard-Jean Empain, a French-Belgian industrialist who was seized and held for two months. After aggressive police action, Empain was released without any ransom…
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