The 2024 Rendez-vous with French Cinema features many small gems of the festival circuit, like Banel & Adama, Ama Gloria, and a Real Job.
French Cinema
Rendez-vous with French Cinema Review: Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq’s Àma Gloria
Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq’s Ama Gloria is a touching, sentimental film about the bond between a young French girl and her nanny from Cape Verde.
Cinemania Review: Stéphane Brizé’s Out of Season (Hors-Saison)
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)
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
TIFF 23 Film Review: Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom drama about how we can never fully understand people’s private lives because we only see them through fragments of their public lives.
Fantasia Film Review: Stéphan Castang’s Vincent Must Die
Alex Heeney reviews Stéphan Castang’s film Vincent Must Die works like a zombie film, where anybody could become a zombie at a moment’s notice — and not the slow-moving kind.