Curzon has shared a poster and trailer for The Stranger, the new drama from French filmmaker François Ozon. Based on Albert Camus’ classic 1942 novel L’Étranger, the film is set in 1930s Algiers, the film centres on the detached Frenchman Meursault (Benjamin Voisin), who just weeks after his mother’s death, finds his indifferent existence disrupted […]
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review – The Mad Women’s Ball
The Mad Women’s Ball, 2021. Co-written and directed by Mélanie Laurent. Starring Mélanie Laurent, Lou de Laâge, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Voisin, Cédric Khan, and Grégoire Bonnet. SYNOPSIS: A woman who is unfairly institutionalised in a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel “Le bal des […]
Movie Review – The Mad Women’s Ball (2021)
The Mad Women’s Ball, 2021. Directed by Mélanie Laurent. Starring Mélanie Laurent, Lou de Laâge, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Voisin, Lauréna Thellier, Grégoire Bonnet, Cyril Kuhnholtz, Martine Chevallier, Vincent Nemeth, Cédric Kahn, André Marcon, Lomane de Dietrich, Christophe Montenez, Coralie Russier, Valérie Stroh, Valentine Cadic, Alice Barnole, Martine Schambacher, and Morgan Perez. SYNOPSIS: A woman who […]
Movie Review – Summer of 85 (2020)
Summer of 85, 2020. Directed by François Ozon. Starring Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Melvil Poupaud, and Isabelle Nanty. SYNOPSIS: In a small, seaside town on the Normandy coast, two teenage boys embark on a sun-soaked six weeks of friendship and romance. But tragedy ultimately brings it all crashing down. Like […]
