©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classic The top honor at the 81st Venice Film Festival went to The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, directed by Pedro Almodovar. Despite all the talk of standing ovations, many of the films have only received mixed or lightly positive review scores on critical aggregate sites after…
©Elle, Isabelle Huppert In a scene in The Lacemaker (La dentellière, 1977), Isabelle Huppert’s character is led with closed eyes by her lover. He takes her closer and closer towards a steep cliff and open sea. There she opens her eyes, and he asks, “do you trust me”? “Of course,” she replies. The scene has…
The eclectic French filmmaker, François Ozon, throughout his career has expressed with versatility, poetry and skill the art of moving pictures. The director whose work is associated with the nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (the new “New Wave”), has established his style by blending satirical badinage, freewheeling sexuality and aesthetic beauty. His films — such as 8…
Poland’s entry for Best International Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards is a wondrous work of cinematic art. EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. The film is inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, that was inspired by an extract from…
For Mia Hansen-Løve cinema and life work together. Without nostalgia, the French director builds her films around her own experiences and merge realism and poetry with a flowing passage of time. In “One Fine Morning” she once again dives into the personal and returns to her beloved Paris. In her Isabelle Huppert- helmed “Things to…
In 1958 a novel written by Paul Gallico revolutionised the depiction of fairytale heroines: Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris. It was the first in a series of four books about the adventures of a London charwoman, who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides she must have one of her own….
Bastille Day is the French celebration that marks the moment in history when the people uprose against the aristocracy; this revolutionary act led to the proclamation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Despite it being a quintessentially francophone feast it is heartfelt all over the world, even in the…
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