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1057 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2003. Last article published on 30/06/2025.

Carine Tardieu  • Director of The Ties That Bind Us

Interview: Carine Tardieu • Director of The Ties That Bind Us

"Once we’ve gone beyond certain levels of attachment, there’s no going back"

VENICE 2024: Carine Tardieu explains the intricate story in her film about family ties which go beyond blood and the effect of the passing of time  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Maldoror

Review: Maldoror

VENICE 2024: Fabrice Du Welz displays a spectacular change in register, using fiction to explore the case of Marc Dutroux, the collective trauma which shook Belgium in the ‘90s  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: The Ties That Bind Us

Review: The Ties That Bind Us

VENICE 2024: Carine Tardieu crafts a delicate, humanist film about the unpredictable emotional ties we randomly forge through dramas, loving encounters and the merry-go-round of life  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Vermiglio

Review: Vermiglio

VENICE 2024: Maura Delpero gets back to exploring motherhood in a film set at the end of the Second World War, which is visually and mentally stimulating  

03/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Aude Léa Rapin • Director of Planet B

Interview: Aude Léa Rapin • Director of Planet B

“In Planet B, people don’t talk; they act”

VENICE 2024: In her 2039-set feature, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, the French director brings science fiction, ecology and politics to the table  

29/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: Planet B

Review: Planet B

VENICE 2024: Aude Léa Rapin ventures into the genre of the societal sci-fi thriller, plunging into a world that is particularly worrying for civil liberties  

29/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics' Week

Michiel Blanchart • Director of Night Call

Interview: Michiel Blanchart • Director of Night Call

"Mady fully represents our history and our times, yet he is a hero rarely seen in Belgian cinema"

An interview with the young Belgian filmmaker to mark the release in France and Belgium of his first feature film, a nocturnal urban thriller  

28/08/2024 | /Belgium/France

Review: Night Call

Review: Night Call

Michiel Blanchart seizes on the tropes of the social thriller with infectious glee and applies them to his own city, Brussels, during a night that never ends  

27/08/2024 | Films | Reviews | Belgium/France

Review: The Passion According to Béatrice

Review: The Passion According to Béatrice

The heartbreaking and poetic feature by Fabrice Du Welz sees a vulnerable Béatrice Dalle on the traces of one of the men of her life, Pier Paolo Pasolini  

19/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Out of Competition

Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

Interview: Maxime Jean-Baptiste • Director of Listen to the Voices

“Fiction allowed us to distance ourselves from tragedy, so that reality didn’t overwhelm us”

The young filmmaker from French Guiana tells us about his closeness with his characters, how to represent violence and elaborate his own traumas  

15/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

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