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Mons 2025


9 articles available in total starting from 04/09/2024. Last article published on 20/03/2025.

Review: Marmaille

Review: Marmaille

Wholly shot in Creole on Réunion Island, Grégory Lucilly’s first feature film paints a poignant portrait of siblings fighting to rebuild themselves in spite of being abandoned  

20/03 | Mons 2025

Review: Smell of Burnt Milk

Review: Smell of Burnt Milk

Justine Bauer’s film, which scooped an award at the Mons Love International Film Festival, is a look at German rural life, encompassing matriarchy and the cyclical nature of time  

18/03 | Mons 2025

The Swedish Torpedo wins the Grand Prize at the Love International Film Festival in Mons

The Swedish Torpedo wins the Grand Prize at the Love International Film Festival in Mons

The festival also rewarded Smell of Burnt Milk with the 40th Edition trophy and Paul and Paulette Take a Bath with the Cineuropa Award  

17/03 | Mons 2025 | Awards

Review: Not All Men But...

Review: Not All Men But...

Co-written by Baya Kasmi, Michel Leclerc’s new comedy starring Léa Drucker and Benjamin Lavernhe explores the post-#MeToo world with gleeful cheek  

14/03 | Mons 2025

Review: Guess Who Is Calling

Review: Guess Who Is Calling

French director Fabienne Godet turns a delicate hand to popular comedy in a film where Salif Cissé dazzles and astonishes  

10/03 | Mons 2025

Review: Once Upon My Mother

Review: Once Upon My Mother

Quebec-based filmmaker Ken Scott turns the true story of a mother, who’ll stop at nothing to guarantee the best possible life for her son, into a nostalgic dramedy  

07/03 | Mons 2025

Maxime Dieu • Director general, Love International Film Festival Mons

Interview: Maxime Dieu • Director general, Love International Film Festival Mons

"We like to use our programme to explore what our relationships with love and with others say about us"

As its 40th edition gets ready to open its doors on 7 March, the festival’s director general looks back on the event’s history and its upcoming programme  

04/03 | Mons 2025

Jethro Massey • Director of Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

Interview: Jethro Massey • Director of Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

“It doesn't go where your typical romantic comedy goes; I trusted myself to take it somewhere else”

VENICE 2024: The debuting Franco-British director regales us with stories of on-the-streets filmmaking, Paris’s dark history and social-media inspiration  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

Review: Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

VENICE 2024: British director Jethro Massey’s debut is a whimsical Parisian romance interrupted by odd detours into the city’s dark history  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

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