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
French Cinema
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.
Alice Winocour on the personal and national trauma of Revoir Paris
In this interview, Alice Winocour discusses telling a subjective story of coping with PTSD in her film Revoir Paris.
Philippe Faucon’s Les Harkis tackles colonial violence towards Algerian soldiers during the Algerian War of Independence
In Philippe Faucon’s film Les Harkis, set in the final years of the Algerian War of Independence, it’s a losing battle for the Algerian soldiers in the French Army.
Review: Other People’s Children is Rebecca Zlotowski’s best film
Alex Heeney reviews Rebecca Zlotowski’s new film Other People’s Children, about a woman approaching forty, trying to figure out how to be a parent when she may no longer be able to be a biological one.