FIRST IMAGES FOR THE SECOND PART OF DUNE
Postponed until 2024, The Second Part of Dune by Denis Villeneuve and his impressive cast (Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Léa Seydoux, Austin Butler…) begins to reveal itself. At the end of the first part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, released in September 2021, audiences were introduced to Zendaya in the role of the mysterious Chani. […]
LILY GLADSTONE: TALENT TO WATCH
Martin Scorsese’s eagerly awaited new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon”, is released this month. Alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro and a revelation: Lily Gladstone. Fans of Martin Scorsese will be delighted to witness the reunion between the New York director and his favourite actors, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro. This […]
LAURA STEVENS: PROBING INNER WORLDS
The Paris-based British photographer explores the female gaze in narrative portraits that blend cinematic drama and painterly aesthetics. “Lying on her torso, I see these three words – “You’ll forget too” – tattooed among the mountains on the inside of her left arm. Words that have always haunted me. Will you forget me? Will I […]
JOSÉPHINE JAPY, MULTI-TALENTED ACTRESS
She was discovered at a very young age in Yves Angelo’s Les Âmes grises, alongside Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jacques Villeret and Marina Hands, and five years later in Dominik Moll’s Le Moine, alongside Vincent Cassel. Since then, actress Joséphine Japy has made a succession of films, alternating between historical and fictional characters, auteur cinema and comedy. […]
THE MUST-SEE FASHION RETROSPECTIVE AT THE CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE
France – Paris The Cinémathèque Française is still the place to be for film lovers: directors, actors, artists and film buffs all gather at this legendary venue. For fans of fashion and cinema, the cinémathèque, in partnership with Chanel, is offering a fashion retrospective of twenty films that have left their mark on history. “Fasten […]
THREE FILMS TO WATCH IN VENICE
ITALY – VENICE As the 80th Venice Film Festival gets underway from August 30 to September 9, we take a close-up look at three particularly eagerly awaited films. LA BÊTE BY BERTRAND BONELLO We left Bertrand Bonello with a surprising little film, Coma, made in secret during confinement. This time, the author of L’Apollonide and […]
THE PAULA BEER MYSTERY
Germany It’s summer by the Baltic Sea. Four friends gather in a vacation home. There’s Léon, a shy young writer, and there’s the fascinating Nadja. This is Christian Petzold’s third film with actress Paula Beer. After Ondine (2020), she is at the heart of Ciel Rouge, a romantic comedy bordering on disaster movie. Paula Beer […]
NOEMIE MERLANT, FOCUS ON A TALENTED DIRECTOR
FRANCE – PARIS A key actress in French cinema (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, L’Innocent, Les Olympiades…), Noémie Merlant is also a director. After making two short films, she directed mi iubita, mon amour in 2021: selected for a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival, this fresh first film tells the story […]
ARTHUR HARARI, THE DISCREET TALENT
FRANCE – PARIS In September, Arthur Harari is doubly in the spotlight: as an actor in Cédric Kahn’s Le Procès Goldman, and as a co-writer of Anatomie d’une Chute, Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival, directed by his partner Justine Triet. Portrait of a discreet Swiss Army knife of French cinema. Looking at […]
RICHARD TUSCHMAN, THE ACME OF PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
États-Unis – New York The New York artist creates assemblages between photography and painting, where familiar reality collides with a dreamlike, nostalgic aesthetic, transcended by light. Richard Tuschman’s fascination with painting, photography and assemblage led him to experiment with digital imaging processes from the 1990s onwards. Since then, he has crafted visual narratives that are […]
WHERE TO SPEND YOUR VACATION IF YOU’RE A CINEPHILE?
1. IN NORMANDY, WITH ÉRIC ROHMER’S CONTE D’ÉTÉ (1996) If there’s a Rohmer for every season, summer is certainly his favourite. For the penultimate of his “Tales of the Four Seasons”, the director sets off for Dinard and Saint-Malo. Beach time, walks in the bocage, and difficult but thrilling love affairs are all on the […]
THE RETURN OF WIM WENDERS
Germany After several years of absence, of little-seen films not always appreciated by the critics (Les Beaux Jours d’Aranjuez in 2016, Submergence in 2017), the year 2023 seems to herald the return of the director of Paris, Texas. First, there was the Cannes Film Festival. This year, the filmmaker presented two films, a rare occurrence. […]
NOUVELLES VAGUES : A SONG SUNG BLUE, A FIRST CHINESE FILM CELEBRATED IN BIARRITZA SONG SUNG BLUE,
France – Biarritz Awarded the Grand Prix at Biarritz’s new Nouvelles Vagues Festival in early July, A “Song Sung Blue” is the first feature film by 27-year-old Chinese filmmaker Xiao Bai Chuan. Borrowing its title from a Neil Diamond standard, A “Song Sung Blue” follows Xian, a teenager from northeast China who is forced to […]
EXTINCTION, BY JULIEN GOSSELIN, SHADOW AND LIGHT THEATRE
FRANCE – AVIGNON First performed at the Printemps des Comédiens in Montpellier last June, but designed for the courtyard of the Lycée Saint-Joseph in Avignon, “Extinction”, inspired by his experience in Berlin, marks the return of the prodigy of a theatre of images, light and sound. Five years after presenting his impressive adaptation of Don […]
THE MONROE EXPERIENCE, ANOTHER VISION OF THE MYTH
France – Paris From July 11, discover the Marilyn Monroe myth in a new light. Galerie Joseph presents “The Monroe Experience”, a playful journey through photographs by Milton Greene, a graphic novel, a VR creation and a play. An immersive narrative created by Stéphanie Sphyras and Benoit Nguyen Tat in collaboration with Sylvie Lardet, Anseau […]
VIRGIN SUICIDES BY SOFIA COPPOLA, TWENTY-THREE YEARS LATER
UNITED STATES – NEW YORK On September 27, 2000, the first feature film by a twenty-nine-year-old director with an already prestigious name was released in French cinemas: Virgin Suicides. The film, now a cult classic, opens in cinemas on July 12. The mystery of the Lisbon sisters has lost none of its aura. We sometimes […]
HAYA KHAIRAT, IN THE PICTURE
France – Cannes Egyptian photographer, director of photography, and filmmaker Haya Khairat was awarded the Pierre-Angénieux “special encouragement” prize at the Cannes Film Festival, an endowment given to promising young cinematographers. Interview with a young woman who has carved out a place for herself in an industry still dominated by men. Was your first passion […]
FLÓRA ANNA BUDA, A DIRECTOR TO WATCH
France – Cannes Winner of the Palme d’Or for short film at the last Cannes Film Festival, 27 is an animated film that tells a tender and whimsical tale of the constrained sex life and fantasies of a twenty-seven-year-old woman forced to live with her parents. The film also highlights the housing crisis in many […]
GRETA GERWIG, FROM INDEPENDENT CINEMA TO HOLLYWOOD
UNITED STATES – HOLLYWOOD Starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, Barbie is the film of the summer of 2023 – competing, in a radically different genre, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Who would have thought ten years ago that this $100 million film would be directed by independent film icon Greta Gerwig? Just over ten years […]
CANNES FESTIVAL
THE WINNERS ARE… Cannes – France With her impressive trial film Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet is the second French director – and the third woman – to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. She succeeds Julia Ducournau, a member of this year’s jury, who won for Titane in 2021. With […]
TANIA FRANCO KLEIN A SPECTRAL VISION OF HUMANITY
Her photographic practice oscillates between reality and fiction in a strange space where dramatic pairings of light and shadow play on perspectives like film stills. Tania Franco Klein’s portfolio is a fascinating play of cinematic images saturated with light and color. In her narrative process, this native of Mexico City probes the social behaviors of […]
PAUL GUILHAUME, THE LIGHT OF DOCUMENTARY
A regular collaborator of Léa Mysius (he is responsible for the images of Ava and Les Cinq Diables, films for which he is also a co-writer) and director of photography for Jacques Audiard’s black and white urban film Olympiades, Paul Guilhaume is one of the most promising cinematographers of his generation. With Casa Susanna, broadcast […]
MICHEL GONDRY, BETWEEN TWO FILMS
Presented last month at the Cannes Film Festival’s Quinzaine des Cinéastes, The Book of Solutions is Michel Gondry’s first film since Microbe et Gasoil, released in 2015. Eight years during which the director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind stayed away from the big screen, but not from cinema. In 2014, on the advice […]
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED REVISITS CARMEN
Transposing a great classic of 19th-century French literature and opera into contemporary America: this is the program of Benjamin Millepied’s first film. And what better way to launch the film career of the former director of dance at the Paris Opera than with a film adaptation of Carmen? Prosper Mérimée’s novel had already been adapted […]