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RALPH FIENNES IN ICONCLAVE

BAFTA nominees and winners
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This time THE BRUTALIST was not excluded but won Best Actor and Best Director. ...

It's Feb. 16, time for the 2025 BAFTA Awards

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BAFTAs 2025

The stars shined bright as they entered British Academy Film Awards on Sunday. The top...

THREE FRIENDS/TROIS AMIES (Emmanuel Mouret 2024)

Mouret is in peak form and polish this time at doing this thing he works at ever time: update sof Eric Rohmer reconceived as farce. It seems a bit...

THE QUIET SON/JOUER AVEC LE FEU (Delpine Coulin, Muriel Coulin 2024)

A powerfully told, visually stylish tale of a working class father with two sons, one of whom rocks the tight clan by turning...

THE SECOND ACT/LE DEUXIÈME ACTE (Quentin Dupieux 2024)

The Opening Night Film of this year's Cannes, this jokey Pirandellian movie shoot that constantly breaks the fourth wall and makes fun of the...

SOULEYMANE'S STORY/L'HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMAN (Boris Lojkine 2024)

A refugee from Guinea in Paris delivers food while homeless and preparing for a crucial immigration interview, for which he seems...

AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM/LEURS ENFANTS APRÈS EUX (Ludovic, Zoran Boukherma 2024)

A Goncourt Prize winning novel of coming of age in a depressed eastern valley of France has made it into this...

BEING MARIA/MAIRA (Jessica Palud 2024)

A biopic about Maria Schneider's exploitation by Bertolucci and Brando in the making of Last Tango in Paris and her subsequent life. Not the way to become a...

WHEN FALL IS COMING/QUAND VIENT L'AUTONNE (François Ozon 2024)

Plot twists enliven the life of a retired old lady. The productive and variable Ozon turns to naturalism in a mostly provinncial...

HOLY COW/VINGT DIEUX (Louise Courvoisier 2024)

A rolickig coming of age first feature from Cannes Un Certain Regard focused on a young guy called Totone in the Jura region who has to find himself...

MEETING WITH POL POT/RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT (Rithy Panh 2024)

This 'recreation' of three journalists' visit to Cambodia to meet the genocidal 1977-1979 Khmer Rouge dictator Pol Pot is a surreal...

WILD DIAMOND/DIAMANT BRUT (Agathe Riedinger 2024)

First film of a tacky-glamorous 19-year-old South of France aspirant to online influencer and reality show fame was a surprising inclusion among...

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MARK EDELSHTEIN AND MIKEY MADISON IN [i]ANORA

ANORA WINS PGA AND DGA, BECOMES FRONT RUNNER FOR BEST PICTURE

SEE INDIEWIARE and GOLD DERBY

Here...

GHOST TRAIL/ LES FANTÔMES (Jonathan Millet 2024)

Adam Bessa stars in a thriller about a man who was tortured in a Syrian prison who seeks to track down his torturer. A riveting film whose vivid...

WINTER IN SOKCHO/HIVER À SOKCHO (Koya Kamura 2024)

A young Korean woman (newcomer Bella Kim) whose French father vanished before she was born has a memorable but frustrating encounter with a...

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ROSCHDY ZEM, BELLA KIM

KOYA KAMURA: WINTER IN SOKCHO/HIVER À SOKCHO (2024)

Fish, faces, and foreigners

This French-Korean collaborative film is...

DJ MEHDI: MADE IN FRANCE episode 1 Thibaud de Longueville 2024

Preview of an Arte-sponsored miniseries about a prodigious French hip-hop composer and producer whose Quiny Jones-like...

THIS LIFE OF MINE/MA VIE MA GUEULE (Sophie Fillières 2024)

The surreal last film of the late Sopiie Fillières is also a showcase of the highy appropriate acting talents of Agnès Jaoui. The...

VISITING HOURS/LA PRISONNIERRE DE BORDEAUX (Patricia Mazuy, 2024)

A review from the coming 2025 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. About the odd bond across class lines that develops between two...

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THIBAUD DE LONGEVILE: DJ MEHDI, MADE IN FRANCE (mini-series)

TRAILER

Carrière ouverte aux talents (career open to talents)

In the late...

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ÉDOUARD SULPICE, ANGELINE WORETH

SOPHIE FILLIÈRES: THIS LIFE OF MINE/MA VIE MA GUEULE (2024)

Portrait of a woman at the end of her tether

Sophie...

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OLIVIER ASSAYAS: SUSPENDED TIME/HOURS DU TEMPS (2024)

Covid lockdown in the provinces


“Never have I felt like less of a filmmaker,” frets Paul...

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INDIA HAIR, CAMILLE COTTIN

EMMANUEL MOURET: THREE FRIENDS/TROIS AMIES (2024)

Mouret's accomplished ronde of relationship shifting

Handsomely...

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VINCENT LINDON, STÉFAN CREPON, BENJAMIN VOISIN

DELPHINE COULIN, MURIEL COULIN: THE QUIET SON/JOUER AVEC LE FEU (2024)

A family ripped apart by...

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LOUIS GARREL, LÉA SEYDOUX
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QUENTIN DUPIEUX: THE SEOND ACT/LE DEUXIÈME acte (2024)

Jokey Cannes opener

A Pirandellian, glossy performance , this...