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 […]
Movie Review – Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Anatomy of a Fall, 2023. Directed by Justine Triet. Starring: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, and Samuel Theis. SYNOPSIS: A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness. Justine Triet’s courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall begins with a sense of […]
Movie Review – Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Anatomy of a Fall, 2023. Directed by Justine Triet. Starring Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Saadia Bentaïeb, Jehnny Beth, Samuel Theis, Camille Rutherford, Anne Rotger, Sophie Fillières, Arthur Harari, Pierre-François Garel, and Savannah Rol. SYNOPSIS: A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as […]
Palme d’Or-winner Anatomy of a Fall unveils trailer and poster
Neon has revealed a trailer for the Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall ahead of its theatrical release this October. The French thriller centres on Sandra, a woman who becomes the prime suspect in her husband Samuel’s suspicious death after he is found dead in the snow below their chalet, but the investigation […]
Movie Review – By the Grace of God (2019)
By the Grace of God, 2019. Directed by François Ozon. Starring Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, and Swann Arlaud. SYNOPSIS: Alexandre lives with his wife and children in Lyon. One day he discovers by chance that the priest who abused him when he was a Boy Scout is still working with young people, and long repressed […]
Movie Review – A Woman’s Life (2016)
A Woman’s Life, 2016. Directed by Stéphane Brizé. Starring Judith Chelma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, and Nina Meurisse. SYNOPSIS: A young woman sets out on the path to adulthood and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman’s life in the mid 19th-century. Life is never as good or as bad as one thinks, wrote Guy de Maupassant […]
Second Opinion – A Woman’s Life (2016)
A Woman’s Life, 2016. Directed by Stephane Brize. Starring Judith Chemla, Nina Meurisse, Swann Arlaud, Finnegan Oldfield, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, and Yolande Moreau. SYNOPSIS: In 19th century France, a young woman from a wealthy family gets married, but soon becomes disillusioned by the harsh realities facing women at the time. This week started with equality taking […]
