Tag: French Cinema
Anatomy of a Fall Dominates 49th César Awards
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall has dominated the 49th César Awards with six nods including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress for Sandra Hüller,…
The Animal Kingdom Leads 49th César Awards Nominations
Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom (Le Règne animal) leads the nominations for the 49th César Awards with 12 nods including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor…
Film Review: Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades (Jacques Audiard)
Jacques Audiard’s speciality as a director is stories about violent men who do not have an innate taste for violence. So it’s something of a…
Lost Illusions Leads 47th César Awards Nominations
Xavier Giannoli’s Lost Illusions (Illusions Perdues) leads the nominations for the 47th César Awards with 15 nods including Best Film and Best Director. The film also picked…
FemmeFilmFest21 Interview: Agnes Patron the maestro behind And Then The Bear
As part of the 6th Femme Filmmakers Festival Robin Write of Filmotomy and Meagan Adele Lopez from the Competition Selection jury spoke to French filmmaker…
Festival de Cannes Review: Robuste (Constance Meyer)
Robuste, or Robust as it’s called in English, with an untranslatable pun, was the opening film of Semaine de la Critique in this year’s Cannes…
Festival de Cannes Review: Jane par Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg)
When Jaques Rivette made Love On the Ground in 1984 he said that one of the best reasons for making films is being able to…
Festival de Cannes Review: Annette (Leos Carax)
So May We Start? The opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Annette, directed by Leos Carax and written and scored by Sparks. It is…
1988 in Film: Jane B by Agnes V
Actress Jane Birkin exists in multitudes. From Rivettian chess piece in Love on the Ground and La Belle Noiseuse to unsteady androgynous lover in La…
Film Review: Heroes Don’t Die
Aude Léa Rapin’s Heroes Don’t Die (Les Héros ne meurent jamais) brings the spectators into the world of a film crew in search of answers…
Love Affair(s) Leads César Awards Nominations
Emmanuel Mouret’s Love Affair(s) (Les Choses Qu’On Dit, Les Choses Qu’On Fait) leads the way at the César Awards nominations with 13 nods including Best Film….
House of Tolerance: The Unseen Villain in Forced Pleasure
Sometimes the best horror films have an unknown enemy. A common feature in many horror villains, especially within the slasher subgenre. It is used with…
The Sorrowful Beauty of Vagabond by the Great Agnès Varda
The dearly departed Agnès Varda, is not dead at all. We can go back and cherry pick from her illustrious filmography any time we please….
1994 in Film: The Double Couleurs of Krzysztof Kieślowski with ‘White’ and ‘Red’
Blue may be the most popular of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Trois Couleurs trilogy, made during the renowned Polish filmmaker’s final years in France. But the following…
