MARGUERITE ET JULIEN, which comes out this week, had everyone talking before its premiere at the 2015 Cannes Festival--the story deals with incest, after all, a taboo subject which should probably always remain taboo. Adapted from an original screenplay written by Jean Gruault for none other than French new wave master François Truffaut, MARGUERITE ET JULIEN stars French actors Jérémie Elkaïm and ... more >
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MARGUERITE ET JULIEN
Distributed by IFC FILMS
Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm and Frédéric Pierrot
Directed by Valérie Donzelli
BIRDPEOPLE
Was shown at the last Cannes Festival
Anaïs Demoustier and Josh Charles
Directed by Pascale Ferran
IMDB's one-sentence description of Pascale Ferran's new film is a nearly-apt one: "an American arrives in Paris, checks into a hotel, turns off his cell phone and starts his life anew." French filmmaker Ferran, known for her "Lady Chatterley" and "Petits arrangements entre les morts" (2010) for which she won the Caméra D'Or in Cannes, took "Birdpeople" to Cannes again this year but earned some ... more >
BIRD PEOPLE
Film was shown at the last Cannes Festival
Anaïs Demoustier and Josh Charles
Directed by Pascale Ferran
How alienated does our work/family/play/social-media environment make us? What if we took the time to measure this alienation, what if we looked, really looked at what’s around us, what if we grew wings and flew high above it all, taking stock, seeing our lives from a distance with an uncritical but lucid eye? Such is the premise of Pascale Ferran’s lovely and thoughtful “Bird People,” shown in ... more >