Fresh off its Venice premiere, we review Stéphane Brizé’s lovely existential crisis movie with a touch of second chance romance screen, Out of Season (Hors-Saison)
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Cinemania 2023: All Your Faces, Along Came Love, and more
recap of the 2023 Cinemania Film Festival, which featured highlights like All Your Faces and Out of Season, disappointments like First Case and the Rapture, and some films in between, like Along Came Love
En roue libre (Freestyle) Film Review
Alex Heeney reviews the film, En roue libre (Freestyle), an absurd French buddy comedy about a woman who can’t leave her car and the young man who hijacks it. En roue libre (Freestyle) is the first feature from writer-director Didier Barcelo.
Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) is a character study about the grind of life under capitalism
Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre’s Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre) is a character study about a flight attendant struggling under the indifference and sexism of working for a big corporation.
Charlène Favier’s Slalom is a complex exploration of abuse
Charlène Favier’s Cannes-selected debut, Slalom, is a tense pas-de-deux between a 15-year-old professional skiing star, Lyz (Noée Abita) and her coach, Fred (Jérémie Renier).
Anne Fontaine’s psychological drama Night Shift (Police)
Night Shift looks at the inner lives of three police officers who take the night shift together. The film screens at Cinemania across Canada on Nov 22. Tickets are available here.