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A recent casting notice reveals that French filmmaker Alice Winocour, whose last film Revoir Paris was selected for Directors’ Fortnight in 2022, is in pre-production for her fifth feature film. The project is being developed under Charles Gillibert‘s CG Cinema,...

Friends Forever: Radwanski Reteams With Deragh Campbell For Another Captivating Character Study In Close-Up The tension between a friendship that’s too close for comfort and a marriage in stasis lies at the heart of Kazik Radwanski’s beautifully messy Matt and...

The Parent Trap: Elizabeth Olsen Tries Not to Break In Fleur Fortuné’s Debut The Assessment The one thing you can count as the world gets worse is a government bureaucracy aimed at making life even more difficult. That’s the general...

This marks the world premiere week for Panama City-based Ana Endara‘s fiction feature debut at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (Centerpiece programme selection) with it’s European premiere set for San Sebastian next week. After cutting her teeth in the...

After cutting her teeth for just under two decades with films such as The Orphanage (2007), Transsiberian (2008) and Cell 211 (2009), Spanish film producer Elena Manrique moved into the directors’ chair last year embarking on her directorial debut in...

Everybody Hurts: All Pain and No Gain in Christopher Andrews’ Debut Bring Them Down If misery loves company, then Bring Them Down is a party. The feature debut by Christopher Andrews is set in a dour and desolate vision of...

All About My Mother: Amy Adams Goes to the Dogs In Marielle Heller’s Barking Mad Dramedy “Motherhood is fucking brutal,” Amy Adams’ unnamed Mother seethes in Nightbitch. Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yodel’s novel is a fiery challenge of society’s...

Take A Chance On Love: Mike Leigh Delivers A Late Career Powerhouse You can’t help but wonder if Mike Leigh is making a sly joke by naming Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s ferociously angry, deeply bitter, anxiety-ridden, and devastatingly depressed character Pansy Deacon....

Today marks the world premiere of Colombian filmmaker César Augusto Acevedo’s sophomore feature at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (Discovery section selection). Nearly a decade after making his debut with Land and Shade in 2015 — a film that...

Lifestyles of the Rich, Conflicted & Coddled: Dull Vacation in the South of France for Debut Ah, summer in the south of France. The cerulean waves of the Baie de Cassis, bowls overflowing with strawberries, and warm evening breezes swimming...