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French Cinema

Alex Heeney / March 2, 2023

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.

Alex Heeney / December 11, 2022

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.

Alex Heeney / November 9, 2022

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.

Elena Lazic / March 6, 2019

‘For me, cinema is where we can speak to our own fragility and vulnerability’: Mikhaël Hers discusses Amanda

Mikhaël Hers talks about his approach to tragedy in Amanda, which follows a young girl and her uncle as they reckon with the consequences of a terrorist attack. The film is screening in the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival at Lincoln Centre in NYC on March 9. If terrorist attacks are becoming more frequent in […]

Mathieu Almaric, Arnaud Desplechin, Marion Cotillard, Ismael's Ghosts

Elena Lazic / March 21, 2018

Arnaud Desplechin: ‘Each character must have a mystery’

Arnaud Desplechin and star Mathieu Amalric discuss Ismael’s Ghosts, what they bring to each other, the bigger-than-life characters they create and play, and the secrets that they keep.

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