A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
British Films, French and French-language Films
Florian Zeller, “The Father” (2020) Detailing an elderly father’s deterioration from dementia, and the effects his condition has on the people around him, this film adopts…
French and French-language Films
Edouard Bergeon, “In the Name of the Land / Au Nom de la Terre” (2020) A deeply personal family drama, based on his own experiences growing…
French and French-language Films
Jules Janaud and Fabrice le Nezet, “Animal” (2017) In the not too distant future, in a post-industrial world, communities living on the margins of society will…
French and French-language Films, Japanese Films
Hirokazu Kore-eda, “The Truth” (2019) Ironically truth is the one thing going missing in this gentle French comedy about a family whose members use lies and…
French and French-language Films
Mriganka Bhuyan, Romain Couderette, Eunbyeol Ko, Sean Lewis, Milan Salmona, Wenkai Wang, “Royal Madness” (2019) Not one of the better offerings from the 2019 Gobelins graduation…
French and French-language Films
Jules Bourges, Jocelyn Charles, Nathan Harbonn Viaud, Pierre Rougemont,”Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (2019) A droll character study of a scientist called Etienne initially dedicated to pursuing truth…
French and French-language Films
Valerie Bousquie, Josephine Meis, Antoine Vignon, Benjamin Warnitz, “Protocole Sandwich” (2019) This very likeable and comic-strip-styled animation comes across as a satirical commentary on conformism, mass…
French and French-language Films
Mohammad Babakoohi, Jakob Bednarz, Benjamin Berrebi, Diego Cristofano, Théo Noble, Karlo Pavicic-Ravlic, Marthinus van Rooyen, “Dogs” (2019) One of the longer films in the Gobelins 2019…
French and French-language Films
Cécile Guillard, Lana Choukroune, Yijia Cao, “Out of Range” (2019) In the Gobelins animated universe, the most mundane incidents can give rise to major transformations in…
French and French-language Films
Vincent Chansard, “Pour la France” (2019) Set in Paris during the so-called La Semaine Sanglante (The Bloody Week) in May 1871, during which time the French…