Category Archives: European Cinema

Garland’s “Men” Can Be Great

It’s been a long time since a movie trailer got me excited. It wasn’t a surprise, since Alex Garland has already contibuted to the “World Cinema” as a director of “Ex Machina” and writer of “28 Days Later”. Audience might vbe confused by and criticise his latest movie “Annihilation”, but I strongly believe that this film was a masterpiece. The

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Io sto bene (2020): A gem from Luxembourg – Movie Review

I had the luck to see Donato Rotunno’s “Io sto bene” in a online screening. I was curious as to what I would see since there were nearly no records on the net for this film. Sadly, a Luxembourgian production is not very attractive, even if “Io sto Bene” is the official submission of the country in Oscars Awards. Sadly

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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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Lanthimos Assembles His Cast for the new movie “Poor Things”

Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Williem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef will star in the new movie of Yorgos Lanthimos under the title “Poor Things”. Yorgos will direct and produce the film from a script by Tony McNamara, their second collaboration on “The Favourite” (2018), for which Tony McNamara earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay. “Poor Things” is a Frankenstein-esque

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