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2024 MyFrenchFilmFestival: “The Beast in the Jungle”, “Junkyard Dog” & Zeno Graton’s “Le Paradis”
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Unifrance’s Gilles Pélisson and Executive Director Daniela Elstner announced the selections for the 14th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival (the online film fest dedicated to promoting French language cinema and make it available across multiple channels, subtitled languages and just about every...
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The Settlers | Review
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Once Upon a Time in Chile: Haberle Crafts Colonialist Past as a Vicious Western A quote from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia opens Felipe Gálvez’s sinister debut The Settlers (Los Colonos), referring to wolves turning on the sheep. Thus begins a complex...
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Interview: Amjad Al Rasheed – Inshallah A Boy
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Set in Amman and in an unjust, severely outdated legal system where archaic rules are meant to keep in place the gender divide (here the inheritance law forgets that women exist), Inshallah A Boy (which premiered in the Cannes Critics’...
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Interview: Halima Ouardiri – The Camel Driving School (Work in Progress)
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Cutting her teeth on the short form for just over a decade with award-winning trio of films which have premiered at Rotterdam, the Berlinale and mostly recently the 2023 edition of TIFF with Les Patins, Swiss-Moroccan filmmaker Halima Ouardiri moves...
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Moscow Mules: Albert Serra Prepping “Out of this World” for Summer 2024 Shoot
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Post masterwork Pacifiction (read review), it appears that Spanish filmmaker Albert Serra will stick to murky politics and scope once again for what is indeed his English-language project debut. If Kristen Stewart is available, then this would indeed be the...
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2024 Berlinale: Julia von Heinz, Tilman Singer, Philippe Lesage, Zellner Bros. & Renck’s Spaceman in Line-up
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Berlinale topper Carlo Chatrian is slowly unveiling titles for his final line-up and this morning we’ve got some stocking stuffers with the first batch of titles from the Berlinale Special, Generation and Forum Expanded sections. Among the headliners, we have...
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Personal Services: Naomi Watts, Will Sharpe & Jamie Campbell Bower Among Players in “Emmanuelle”
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Earlier this morning Audrey Diwan confirmed the recent news that Naomi Watts has a role in her highly anticipated Emmanuelle, but the French filmmaker also revealed the rest of the line-up and gave us a first look with a splendid...
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Interview: Michel Franco – Memory
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Unwaveringly dedicated to a cinema of provocation, even if it may appear excessive to more sensitive viewers, auds at the Venice (and Toronto) Film Festivals had the opportunity to glimpse a gentler side of auteur Michel Franco‘s work. That’s not...
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2023 Le prix André Bazin: Pham Thiên Ân’s “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” Takes Unique Prize
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It’s year two for the prix André Bazin by les Cahiers du Cinéma folks and the jury of Albert Serra, Marion Cotillard, Flora Fishbach, Jeanne Lapoirie, Fernando Ganzo, Olivia Cooper-Hadjian and one reader of the magazine have bestowed the honor...
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The Taste of Things | Review
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Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous foodie procedural, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot au Feu). The film’s French language...
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