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127 articles available in total starting from 26/08/2002. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

Nabil Ben Yadir  • Director of Animals

Interview: Nabil Ben Yadir • Director of Animals

"To tell this radical story, an equally radical form was needed"

A meeting with the Belgian filmmaker, who delivers with his fourth feature a film that plunges into the heart of the darkness of the human soul by probing a racist and homophobic crime  

20/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

Review: Animals

Review: Animals

Nabil Ben Yadir delivers a radical film gesture which scrutinises the final hours of a young man who’s the victim of a brutal homophobic crime, and the hours which follow his death  

15/10/2021 | Ghent 2021

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: 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

Gabriele Mainetti • Director of Freaks Out

Interview: Gabriele Mainetti • Director of Freaks Out

Freaks Out is a child of the historic Trump era”

VENICE 2021: The Italian director speaks about his second work, the film’s music and the production challenges associated with such a colossal project, which was a long time in the making  

09/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Review: Freaks Out

Review: Freaks Out

VENICE 2021: Gabriele Mainetti’s second film blends pure entertainment with a reflection on diversity, but its tendency towards appropriation results in a feeling of déjà vu  

09/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Joachim Lafosse  • Director of The Restless

Interview: Joachim Lafosse • Director of The Restless

“The illness takes so much space in their relationship that they forget themselves in it”

CANNES 2021: The Belgian director tells us about his universal and heartbreaking reflection on the question of breakdown within the relationship  

17/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: The Restless

Review: The Restless

CANNES 2021: Joachim Lafosse returns to a cinema of intimacy, following a couple separated by illness, when one of them seems to become absent from the relationship while the other over-invests in it  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Julia Ducournau, Vincent Lindon  • Director of and actor in Titane

Interview: Julia Ducournau, Vincent Lindon • Director of and actor in Titane

“For the first 25 minutes, you go: ‘Wait a minute, where am I?!’ And then, you just know – inside a love story”

CANNES 2021: In her competition entry, the French director introduces the oddest pairing since The Shape of Water  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: France

Review: France

CANNES 2021: Bruno Dumont holds a magnifying glass and a mirror over the conflicting ambitions and the new awareness of a disturbing truth about the state of the country and of its souls  

16/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

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