Fabled Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima was the guiding hand behind the fast-paced French comedy Max, Mon Amour. The "Max" with whom the elegant Charlotte Rampling falls in love is a circus chimpanzee ...
Paris, 1959. The staff of Cahiers du Cinema, the now-legendary French film magazine, convened only its second all-hands-on-deck critics' round table. The occasion, headlined as "an event which seems ...
Cannes: The "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" star directs herself in a dubious romance unwilling to grapple with its bigger questions. Two years after Céline Sciamma’s luminous “Portrait of a Lady on Fire ...
Alain Resnais' film Hiroshima Mon Amour tackles the unspeakable trauma of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, something Western cinema has largely ignored. Resnais fuses fiction and documentary ...
Films Boutique (“Embrace of the Serpent,””Charlatan”) has closed several key European territories on “Mi Iubita, Mon Amour,” the feature debut of actor-turned-filmmaker Noémie Merlant which is playing ...
Tarzan and Arab Nasser, the Palestinian filmmaking twins behind Venice and Toronto bowing drama 'Gaza mon amour,' discuss their efforts to tell a love story in the besieged territory. By Alex Ritman U ...
Arab and Tarzan Nasser's film appealingly pairs Hiam Abbass and Salim Daw as lonely hearts in the Gaza marketplace, though its soft story is stretched a bit thin. The title “Gaza Mon Amour” carries ...
Two adaptations of works by the writer Marguerite Duras are playing as one-woman shows in Paris. By Laura Cappelle PARIS — When the film “Hiroshima Mon Amour” was released 60 years ago, the French ...