After several short films, Just Philippot is directing a long movie, The Swarm. Written by Jérôme Genevray and Franck Victor during the So Film’s residence dedicated to genre cinema, this…
Nine Antico's first feature film, Playlist, was released this Wednesday. The comic book writer has created a lovely black and white comedy starring Sara Forestier as a woman soon to…
Yorgos Lamprinos (not to be confused with his compatriot director Yorgos Lanthimos) is a cosmopolitan editor with an impeccable CV : he has worked with Medhi Charef, Costa Gavras and…
An Abenaki filmmaker driven by the desire to pass on, Kim O'Bomsawin made her last documentary, Call Me Human, about the Innu poet Joséphine Bacon, an inspired and inspiring figure…
Olivier Babinet, co-director of Robert Mitchum is Dead
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Somewhere Else and Dulac Cinémas join forces to bring you a weekly selection of films. This week, meet Olivier Babinet. The director, a former ad man whose latest feature film,…
Abel Gance, Roger Vadim, Jean-Luc Godard : they all dreamt to adapt Journey to the end of the night for the screen. But Louis-Ferdinand Céline's masterpiece, published in 1932, is…
Zoé Wittock’s first sensitive and audacious movie, Jumbo, is released today and it is our favourite of the week. A good opportunity to talk funfair and female desire with its…
Taika Waititi, the new Disney loved member, debuts his run for the Oscars with a hilarious comedy about a child whose imaginary friend is Adolf Hitler.
Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie sont à l’affiche de ce film qui dénonce d’un même mouvement la chaîne d’info en continue conservatrice Fox News et le harcèlement que faisait…
An organic thriller with lynchian references, Jennifer Reeder's second feature film brings a new take on teenage movies. We met the director in Deauville.
Sarah Suco takes us inside a sectarian catholic community. A fine story inspired by her own childhood, reminding us of the children still oppressed in those communities.
Through this social love story, Hinde Boujemaa denounces gender inequalities in relationships, in a contexte where adultery and deliquency are put on equal footing. Interview.
Interview with Richard Kelly, cursed director of one of the cult movies of the 00's : Donnie Darko which is re-released on November 13th in a DVD Blue-Ray collector boxset, available…
Sensitive teen movie shot almost like a documentary, Quebecker director Geneviève Dulude-de Celles’s first fiction feature film was awarded the Generation Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlin film festival. Rightfully…
Comedy that made sensation in Cannes, Yves by Benoît Forgeard is also a musical film. We met Bertrand Burgalat who wrote the soundtrack on the Croisette. Interview.
Portrait of the first Cosa Nostra’s repentant, Tommaso Bruscettaco, Marcho Bellocchio’s movie give to Pierfrancesco Favino (Romenzo Criminal, Suburra) a complex Mafioso part as he likes. Interview
Introduced in the official selection at the Venice Mostra, Soderbergh's dark comedy makes fun of the lawyer practice at the heart of the Panama Papers, while trying to initiate us…
Igort adapts his graphic novel in theaters (the most translated one) and directs his first film. An unclassifiable and probably future Italian classic.
Less than a year after The Life & Death of John F. Donovan, Xavier Dolan offers a movie about friendship. A return to his origins that seems to feel good for…
Both Caroline Fourest's and Mounia Meddour's movies chose a general public and efficient kind of cinema to promote female empowerment in the face of islamism. Explainations.
Todd Phillip's Joker, played by Joaquin Pheonix, arrives endowed with a Golden Lion in Venice. It is the result of a process that turns the bad guys of pop culture into…
Christophe Honoré’s favourite actress was awarded in the Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes for the movie On a Magical Night. Overview of a modern and brash woman invigorating the…
Made with Super 8 images filmed by Charles Aznavour from 1948 to 1982, the peculiar documentary is produced by Mischa Aznavour, son of the singer, and directed by Marc di…
Winner of the Jury's Prize, Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles' movie focuses on the torments of their native Nordeste, under the disguise of a manchase. Chilling.
Danielle Lessovitz' first feature film, Port Authority, depicts the rebirth of the New York Voguing scene, thirty years after Madonna's hit. We met the transgenre star Leyna Bloom.
90’s independant cinema’s icon, Hal Hartley wrote and directed the “Long Island Trilogy” (The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men) rerunning today. We met him in Deauville where Trust was awarded…
The Thelma & Louise star came to Deauville to premiere the documentary she produced : This Changes Everything. An opportunity to discuss gender equality, Me Too and other issues that matter to…
With a smothering feature film, inspired by a personal story, Carlo Mirabella-Davis charms Deauville and wins the Special Prize. Going back on this feminist movie, with its director.
This Bloody thriller marks one of Hollywood wonder boys’ come back. Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction’s screenwriter and Killing Zoé’s director. Has he something new to say ?
Honest and violent, Ben Rekhi’s feature film was competing in the Deauville American film festival. Taking place in the Philippines, the film is focusing on the war on drugs that…
Welcomed with a standing ovation during last Cannes Festival, Céline Sciamma's latest movie is one of those that leave lasting marks on your eyes and in your heart. Going back…
Brian De Palma’s most famous film, Carrie (1977) is out again on September the 18th. Giving us the occasion to talk about teenage rampage, inspiring for many genres on big…
Film. Directed by the actor Jonah Hill, this chronicle on the backdrop of skateboard in L.A. was knowledge by the critics as the first movie of a genius director. What…
Jamie Bell, unrecognizable as a skinhead with a tattooed face, is at the heart of Skin, an impressive radiography of white supremacist groups. We met the director, Guy Nattiv, in…
Presented in Cannes and Deauville film festival, this HBO movie explores a teenage girl’s intimacy while being exposed by a sexual harassment video. Following the line of Euphoria, of which…
Gurinder Chadha's film, a typical feel-good movie with it's flaws and qualities, show how British cinema is reinventing itself through its Indian-Pakistanese minority. Overview.
Présenté cette année à Cannes lors de la Semaine de la critique, ce film signe les débuts de Hafsia Herzi en tant que réalisatrice. Et si la muse de Kechiche…
Centré sur un couple ravagé par l’addiction de l’un d’eux, le premier film d’Audrey Diwan est un thriller intime électrisant. Rencontre avec la réalisatrice.
Film. Les narcos, on connaît ça par cœur. Mais qu’y avait-il avant ? Cristina Gallego et Ciro Guerra retournent aux sources du mal dans Les Oiseaux de passage, épopée hallucinée…
Le film de Rebecca Zlotowski, conte moral sur les amours tarifés chics et raffinés,réhabilite et starifie Zahia Dehar. Mais qu’est-ce qui plaît tant au cinéma chez les escortes et autres…
Guillaume Nicloux's new feature film sends Michel Houellebecq and Gerards Depardieu in thalassotherapy. Inbewteen documentary and polar, mud bath and fancy wine. Introduction.
Avec Roubaix, Une Lumière, Arnaud Desplechin retourne dans sa ville natale et nous plonge dans une enquête policière sombre, aux connotations religieuses intrigantes. Décryptage.
Albert Serra’s films are inspired by Sade, Casanova or Dracula… In Freedom, he films the forest at night and imagines a libertine orgy in the time of Louis XV. We met…
The actors Swann Arlaud and Maud Wyler tell us more about Erwan Leduc's first film, a comedy between absurd and emotions presented this year for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight.
Too dark, too unclassifiable, too ambiguous, S. Craig Zahler's film is maybe the best of the year, but it directly comes out in DVD. Why? How? We look at the…
The russian-american director Kirill Mikhanovsky tells his genesis of his second film presented to the Sundance and to the Director's Fortnight of Cannes.
Last movies by Fritz Lang, this diptych with great show from 1959 is released in a restored version. A Baroque masterpiece that inspired many directors of blockbusters. Explanations.
Newest movie by director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, acclaimed for The Lives of Others, this drama recounts the fate of a German painter in search of his artistic identity over…
90's punk drama, Alex Ross Perry's new film is played by Elisabeth Moss, whose psycho rocker role echoes mad and junky Courtney love. Focus on an ambivalent experience.
The Jury Prize of the Independent American Film (consisting of an endowment of 11 000 € to the French distributor) was awarded to the documentary Pahokee by Ivete Lucas and…
Good surprise from the Un Certain Regard selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the first film of Monia Chokri is the funny version of the hypersensitive cinema from his compatriot…
The first film of the music producer goes back to sources of the electro through the gaze of a young prodigy of synthesizers. We met Marc Collin and the actress, Alma…
On the occasion of the relase of Tolkien directed by Dome Karukoski, which displays the group of friends of Lord of the Rings' author, decoding of boys' clubs' culture in cinema.
Silver Bear at Berlin and Jury Prize at the Beaune International Police Film Festival, the Claudio Giovannesi film, adapted from the Roberto Saviano best-seller, is a rude dive on a…
Theoric movie and sometimes abstract, the new Bertrand Bonello proposes a different vision of zombies that have burst upon the Croisette. Explanations.
At the end of this 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival and of a Giant Carioca near the Palace of Festivals and Conferences, The City of Fear is back in…
Jean-Michel Blais composed the music for Xavier Dolan’s new film. We met him at the SACEM meetings in Cannes for talk to us about his work with the little prodigy…
Christophe Honoré's favourite actress has won the Best Performance Prize from the Un certain regard committee at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in On A Magical Night. Portrait of a modern…
In his lastest movie, Quentin Tarantino takes us on the Hollywood planet of the 1960s and doesn't hesitate to wake up the dead. The result ? A movie with a…
Hailed at the Cannes Film Festival, Céline Sciamma's newest movie is one of those that soaks the eye and the heart. Let's go back to this burning drama that could have…
She's on the bill Mickey and the Bear and at Di Caprio's side at Cannes. She talks about her role in Anabelle Attanasio's first film. The one of the young Mickey Peck, who…
Awarded with a special Palme d'Or during 2018 Cannes Festival, The Image Book directed by Jean-Luc Godard shows us Godard's different faces, which created the character he is today. Here's our…
We know narcos by heart. But what was there before? Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra come back to the origins of evil in Birds of passage, Wayuu Indians' crazy epic
With this chronic of a lonely woman on a disco vintage background. Sebastian Lelio (Oscar of the best foreign film with A Fantastic Woman) offers a tailor-made role to Julianne Moore. Display.
Toshiro Mifune's only film, Kurosawa's favourite actor, is an efficient thriller which slowly turns into a moral tale. A unic film never seen again since it came out in 1963.
Emotional chronicle of a family rebuilding itself who defies stereotypes. Claire Burger's film received the Crystal Arrow at Les Arcs European Cinema Festival, while Bouli Lanners won the Best male…
Introduced at Aubagne's International Film Festival, Marta Bergman's first fiction feature film has the same intimate tone than in her documentaries. A discovery.
A cosmonaut stuck in space, a Cuban victim of the economic crisis... Ernesto Daranas' satirical and nostalgic comedy has an original point of view on the collapse of the Soviet…
A contract killer in charge of the murder of the general De Gaulle, a gripping suspense made by Fred Zinnemann (The Ballad of High Noon), a 70's gem to rediscover…
On the occasion of the masterpiece's comeback, in restored version, let's focus on a high-risk experience from which the director barely emerged unscathed.
Not entirely a success but a lot of interesting ideas, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan directed by Xavier Dolan is the self-portrait of an artist who's still…