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The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard Adaptation “My name is Fatima,” is one of the constant refrains utilized in Fatima Daas’ celebrated first novel The Last One (2020), a fragmented piece of auto-fiction which parallels the author’s...

At the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, we got to chat with actor Théodore Pellerin, one of the most quietly adventurous thesps ping-ponging between films by establihsed auteurs and as witnessed last year emerging filmmakers such as Alex Russell (Lurker) and...

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...

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and the uncomfortable stillness of contemporary existence, one of the most assured feature debuts to emerge from this year’s Directors’ Fortnight was Low Expectations. What Norwegian filmmaker Eivind Landsvik gets right is...

One of the discoveries of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was the Un Certain Regard selected (should have been in competition for the Palme) Everytime, the latest feature from Austrian filmmaker Sandra Wollner would go onto win Un Certain Regard Prize. Best...

Following the Grand Prix–winning Close, Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont returned to the Cannes competition with a film that explores how war reshapes identity, intimacy, and the very idea of courage. In Coward, set during World War I, Dhont uses the...

A film project we’ve been tracking when the Critics’ Week had launched her short Lili Alone, and then invited her feature debut to Next Step workshop, with her deeply moving A Girl Unknown (La Deuxième fille), Chinese filmmaker Zou Jing...

We discovered Argentine filmmaker Federico Luis as one of the exciting, singular new voices when his feature debut, Simon of the Mountain, premiered at Cannes at the Critics’ Week in 2024. Currently mounting his sophomore feature The Dog Trainer (with...

Family of Straw: Hayakawa Paints Busy Coming-of-Age Portrait Going in the opposite direction of her 2022 debut Plan 75, a sci-fi meditation on Japan’s aging population, director Chie Hayakawa sets her sights on one defining summer for an eleven-year-old girl...

The Russians Are Killing the Russians Are Killing: Assayas Bungles Political Espionage Of the many significant issues severely hobbling The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest film from French auteur Olivier Assayas, the most egregious is how incredibly stupid it...