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1088 articles available in total starting from 24/02/2003. Last article published on 03/10/2025.

Danielle Arbid • Director of Simple Passion

Interview: Danielle Arbid • Director of Simple Passion

"The audience needed to understand why this woman falls in love with this man"

Danielle Arbid unscrambles Simple Passion, an adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel, awarded Cannes’ Official Selection label and unveiled in competition in San Sebastian  

22/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Review: Simple Passion

Review: Simple Passion

In her highly accomplished adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s novel, Danielle Arbid delves right to the very heart of an irrepressible and incandescent love which ends up driving a woman to distraction  

21/09/2020 | San Sebastián 2020 | Competition

Review: Downstream to Kinshasa

Review: Downstream to Kinshasa

Dieudo Hamadi follows skilfully and respectfully in the footsteps of a group of survivors devastated by war and demanding reparations, in a documentary awarded the Cannes 2020 Official Selection Label  

17/09/2020 | Toronto 2020 | Special Events

Review: My Donkey, My Lover and I

Review: My Donkey, My Lover and I

Laure Calamy and Patrick the donkey steal the show in Caroline Vignal's funny and original comedy, a work awarded the Cannes Official Selection Label and which is soon to hit cinemas in France  

16/09/2020 | Films | Reviews | France/Belgium

Review: Hunted

Review: Hunted

Vincent Paronnaud devises a primitive fairy tale that’s both slasher film and survival story, delivering a gripping reversal of roles and genres  

08/09/2020 | BRIFF 2020

Review: Una promessa

Review: Una promessa

VENICE 2020: Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio return to fiction film with a story of fatherly love set in the cruel, illegal world of exploited farm labourers  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Zanka Contact

Review: Zanka Contact

VENICE 2020: Ismaël El Iraki’s debut film is a raucous, Casablanca-set tajine western about two lost souls overcoming trauma through love, communication, and rock and roll  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Quentin Dupieux • Director of Mandibles

Interview: Quentin Dupieux • Director of Mandibles

“I make comedies seriously”

VENICE 2020: We talked to Quentin Dupieux, the director of Mandibles, about dim-witted protagonists and “creature features”. And Will Ferrell  

07/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Man Who Sold His Skin

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Man Who Sold His Skin

"What does it mean to be free?"

VENICE 2020: Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania talks about her astonishing work The Man Who Sold His Skin, a European production unveiled in the Orizzonti line-up  

06/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Review: Mandibles

Review: Mandibles

VENICE 2020: With a laugh-out-loud film that feels like a long-lost cousin of the Coen brothers’ “idiot trilogy”, Quentin Dupieux once again makes the world a much better place  

06/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

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