Category Archives: French Cinema

Deerskin (a.k.a. Le Daim) (2019) – Movie Review

On a theoretical level, when Jean Durjardin and Adèle Haenel star in the same movie, the movie could be a major box-office success, at least in France. The truth is that Deerskin, written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, was a quite unoticed movie, since it was mainly part of some international festival including the Directors’ Fortnight section of Cannes Film Festival. However,

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Les Olympiades French trailer was released (vid)

The trailer of the new film of Palme d’ Or winner Jacques Audiard (“Dheepan” (2015)) was released. The film also competes for Palme d’ Or prize in this year’s Cannes Festival. Except Audiard, the scenario is co-written by Céline Sciamma (“Portrait Of A Lady On Fire”) and Léa Mysius (“Ava” (2017)). Noémie Merlant (also from “Portrait Of A Lady On

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