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

Mia Hansen-Løve  • Director of Bergman Island

Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve • Director of Bergman Island

“You’d think his almighty presence would feel very intimidating, but to me it was the opposite”

CANNES 2021: Not just an homage to the mega-auteur of cinema and his mythical home, the French director’s film is also a homecoming of sorts for her  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Titane

Review: Titane

CANNES 2021: In her mind-blowing uppercut of a movie, Julia Ducournau shows it’s ok to love your car – just remember to use contraception  

14/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Achouackh Abakar  • Director of and actress in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

Interview: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Achouackh Abakar • Director of and actress in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

"The film is about a woman bravely taking her destiny into her own hands, but also about a country where women help each other"

CANNES 2021: The Chadian director is back in the Palme d'Or competition with his new film, which follows a woman surmounting social and religious taboos  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Bergman Island

Review: Bergman Island

CANNES 2021: Mia Hansen-Løve elaborates a great oeuvre, a game of nested mirrors about couplehood, creativity, cinephilia and ghosts, in the summery setting of the Fårö island  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Benedetta

Review: Benedetta

CANNES 2021: Religion, power, manipulation, miracles and stigmata, truths and falsehoods are all on the ambiguous, intelligent, black humour-filled agenda of Paul Verhoeven’s excellent film  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

CANNES 2021: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun delivers a luminous work about a mother whose love for her daughter causes her to change course and to set about surmounting social and religious taboos  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Annette

Review: Annette

CANNES 2021: Part-prestige production, part-cult curio, Leos Carax’s weird creation is a Cannes opener to remember  

07/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Liesbeth  De Ceulaer  • Director of Holgut

Interview: Liesbeth De Ceulaer • Director of Holgut

“By shooting at night or at twilight, I wanted to get away from reality to evoke a more dreamlike and mythical world”

The Belgian director talked with us about her experience shooting her documentary in Siberia  

20/04/2021 | Visions du Réel 2021 | Competition

Review: Holgut

Review: Holgut

Belgian director Liesbeth De Ceulaer presents a mysterious yet powerful documentary offering an unexpected journey into the heart of the Siberian tundra  

19/04/2021 | Visions du Réel 2021 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Visions du Réel and CPH:DOX title Holgut

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for Visions du Réel and CPH:DOX title Holgut

In Liesbeth De Ceulaer’s new documentary, the dreams of a child join the obsessional hope of a scientist to one day clone extinct species  

15/04/2021 | Visions du Réel 2021 | Competition

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