Even after winning an Oscar, a Palme d’Or and six Cesar awards with Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” French producer Marie-Ange Luciani isn’t resting on her laurels. The Paris-based producer, who runs the company Les Films de Pierre, still strives to work with emerging
We’re still a few days away from the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded each year by the Cannes Film Festival, but the annual French Riviera gathering was made all the more golden on Saturday night thanks to the Variety and Golden Globes Breakthrough Artists
The first official image has been unveiled of acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz in “The Sacrifice,” a psychological horror film currently in production in the Philippines. The award-winning director has intermittently stepped in front of the camera before. The newly released still offers a glimpse
Where do kinks come from? Are we each born to seek out certain thrills, or are such illicit appetites unlocked through experience? Sigmund Freud had a few theories on the subject, and so does Harry Lighton’s “Pillion,” a steamy art-house psychodrama that’s fairly light on
Director Lee Sang-il’s Kabuki drama “Kokuho,” screening at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, represents the culmination of a 15-year creative journey, bringing to life a sweeping tale of artistry, rivalry and tradition spanning five decades of Japanese theater. Set initially in 1964 Nagasaki, the film follows 14-year-old
Jennifer Lawrence was bracingly honest about her own experience with motherhood and postpartum at the Cannes press conference for her upcoming film “Die My Love,” a thriller following a new mother descending into madness. “As a mother, it was really hard to separate what I
Richard Linklater sounded off on Trump’s tariff threat on foreign-made films during the Cannes press conference for his new film “Nouvelle Vague,” saying: “That’s not going to happen right?” Linklater shot “Nouvelle Vague,” which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless,” in France. When asked
Chile’s Villano Producciones and Storyboard Media are teaming with Viven Film (Switzerland) and Chilean actor-producer Benjamín Vicuña (“Locked Up,” “Fuga”) to sign a co-production agreement for the feature film “Simulacro” during this year’s Cannes market. Directed by Juan Ignacio Sabatini, the film is a political-sports