France
The London Film Festival rolls on. Our latest review round-up covers stories of real life…
This dispatch features two great films involving passionate love affairs — but, apart from that, they could not be more radically different.
In our first report from the 2022 Heartland International FilmFestival we give you a taste of the festival!
While most are probably familiar with The Square & Force Majeure, his most provocative, and ingenious work was his overlooked 2011 film Play.
Thriving upon Amalric’s sophisticated storytelling and Krieps’ propulsive performance, Hold Me Tight may be too formally ambitious for some.
In 1922, Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North, the first feature-length “documentary” came out to be a box-office success.
Noé’s split-screen theatrics allows for double the amount of decision-making, double the choreography, and the narrative trickery in Lux Æterna & Vortex.
Full Time is a panic-fuelled portrait of human resilience that’s crafted with both urgency and grace, examining the self-sacrificial nature of parenting.
The worlds of animation and live-action collide in the eclectic tapestries of Chloé Mazlo’s Skies of Lebanon.
For the second Inquiring Minds we tackle the 1965 Jean-Luc Godard sci-fi noir feature, Alphaville.
Cannes Film Festival 2022: Alice Winocour’s PARIS MEMORIES is a Mature Study of Violence and Healing
Paris Memories was the final film I saw at the fest and in its quiet, assured way, was one of the most satisfying.
Charming and sympathetic portrayals by Alséni Bathily and Lyna Khoudri make Gagarine feel warmly satisfying and make it a peculiar French indie.
For this Horrific Inquiry, we take a look at the 2010 horror starring Ryan Reynolds: Buried.
Once you remove the explicit content, there’s not that much about Pleasure that is truly revolutionary, or even rebellious.
Elena López Riera’s El Agua is a slow, seductive, and assured tale of young love and mysticism in an exquisitely rendered Spanish village.