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574 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 28/07/2025.

Lucile Hadzihalilovic • Director of Earwig

Interview: Lucile Hadzihalilovic • Director of Earwig

“This film is in the head of a man who is lost”

The third feature by the French director is her first in English; its European premiere is taking place in competition at San Sebastián, where Cineuropa spoke to her  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Review: Undercover

Review: Undercover

In his usual thrilling anti-spectacular style, Thierry de Peretti delves into the grey zones of the war against drugs, following in the wake of an inside man and an investigative journalist  

22/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Review: I Want to Talk about Duras

Review: I Want to Talk about Duras

Claire Simon unpicks the peculiar relationship between Marguerite Duras and Yann Andréa in an electrifying interpretative duel played beautifully by Swann Arlaud and Emmanuelle Devos  

21/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition

Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

Interview: Laurent Cantet  • Director of Arthur Rambo

"I didn’t want the film to be a trial, but everyone has their own inner convictions"

The French filmmaker explores the violent era of social media through the story of a young and popular novelist who suffers a vertiginous fall from grace  

15/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

Review: Arthur Rambo

Review: Arthur Rambo

With trademark subtlety, Laurent Cantet analyses the different sides to identity by broaching the subject of offensive outbursts on social media to tell the tale of a fall from grace  

13/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

Review: Earwig

Review: Earwig

Lucile Hadzihalilovic signs a cryptic and bewitching work, a subjugating saturnian masterpiece pushing the doors of other dimensions  

13/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Platform

Jan P Matuszyński  • Director of Leave No Traces

Interview: Jan P Matuszyński • Director of Leave No Traces

“I came up with this concept that maybe I made this film out of fear”

VENICE 2021: A leading light of new Polish cinema, the director talks us through his complex true-life tale of the aftermath of a death in police custody  

11/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Stéphane Brizé  • Director of Another World

Interview: Stéphane Brizé • Director of Another World

“Wow, we thought Brizé would do a left-wing caricature – but he shows some truthful things here!”

VENICE 2021: The French director explains how he writes screenplays with his trusted collaborator Olivier Gorce, plus his organic way of working with Vincent Lindon  

11/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Another World

Review: Another World

VENICE 2021: Vincent Lindon sees huge chunks of foul play in the executive suite as Stéphane Brizé brings his acclaimed “work trilogy” to a first-rate conclusion  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Leave No Traces

Review: Leave No Traces

VENICE 2021: Rising Polish filmmaker Jan P Matuszyński is in competition with a sprawling procedural on the 1983 killing of student Grzegorz Przemyk in Warsaw  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

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