Tag: Movie theater
Cinema: “About Joan”, by Laurent Larivière with Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Huppert has not finished surprising us. The French actress, winner of two Césars, a Golden Globe, a prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, is…
“We will not be silent anymore”
” Our silence will not protect us, writes poet Audrey Lord, speaking of black women. And tonight, I want to say that we will no longer be silent. ” It…
disappearance of Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner
He was one of the pioneers of the New Wave in Switzerland and several of his films have become cinema staples. Director Alain Tanner died yesterday in Lausanne at the…
The Venice Film Festival awards a film on the opiate crisis and director Jafar Panahi
The Venice Film Festival once again rewarded a director during its ceremony on Saturday September 10: documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras obtained the Golden Lion on Saturday for her documentary which…
“Plan 75”, mass euthanasia for the elderly
With “Plan 75”, which has just been released in theaters in France, the Japanese director Chie Hayakawa has created an impressive cinematographic work – overwhelming by its images and the…
Cinema: director Alice Diop’s frontal look at a case of infanticide
The Venice Film Festival presents in competition the first fiction feature by a French director of Senegalese origin, Alice Diop. Saint Omer returns to a news item that had upset…
Gulf countries demand Netflix remove content deemed ‘un-Islamic’
The Gulf countries have asked the Netflix streaming platform to remove from its catalog in the region content deemed “ contrary to Islamic and societal values “, without giving details,…
Venice Film Festival: El Akhira, an Algerian epic
At the Venice Mostra, 23 films are competing for the Golden Lion this year, but the Mostra also includes dozens of films out of competition and in the parallel sections,…
“Voodoo Macbeth”, the forgotten African-American story of Orson Welles
” There is sometimes a collective amnesia regarding the successes of black people in America », says Inger Tudor, the main actress of Voodoo Macbeth. Because Orson Welles’ first big…
Jérôme Salle, Russian trap
Filmmaker Jérôme Salle returns to the screens with a breathtaking thriller by Caryl Ferey. A breathtakingly suspenseful film starring Gilles Lellouche, who plays a French expatriate caught up in a…