Paris, 1959. The staff of Cahiers du Cinema, the now-legendary French film magazine, convened only its second all-hands-on-deck critics' round table. The occasion, headlined as "an event which seems ...

In “Godard Mon Amour,” writer-director Michel Hazanavicius takes everything great about the French director Jean-Luc Godard and uses it to explain everything that’s wrong with him. Like the best of ...

Films Boutique (“Embrace of the Serpent,””Charlatan”) has closed several key European territories on “Mi Iubita, Mon Amour,” the feature debut of actor-turned-filmmaker Noémie Merlant which is playing ...

What did people see in Hiroshima Mon Amour in 1959? When the picture opened, it was acclaimed as a renewal of love and surrealism on screen, and a portent of where the world was going. The Soviet ...

Cannes: The "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" star directs herself in a dubious romance unwilling to grapple with its bigger questions. Two years after Céline Sciamma’s luminous “Portrait of a Lady on Fire ...

Alain Resnais' film Hiroshima Mon Amour tackles the unspeakable trauma of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, something Western cinema has largely ignored. Resnais fuses fiction and documentary ...

Naturally, when you envision the ideal character to lead a romantic comedy-drama, you think of Jean-Luc Godard. Specifically, you call to mind that notoriously nebbishy charmer who in 1968 was so ...

The first thing I noticed from Haitian drama Ayiti Mon Amour was the softness and coolness with which the film carries itself. Unlike many small-budget directors who fear inadequacy, director Guetty ...

Hiam Abbas of 'Succession' and 'Ramy' co-stars in Palestinian directors Tarzan and Arab Nasser's second feature, 'Gaza Mon Amour,' which premiered in Venice's Horizons sidebar. By Jordan Mintzer A ...

“Gaza Mon Amour,” starring Hiam Abbass (“Succession”) and Salim Daw (“Fauda”), will serve as Palestine’s official entry in the International Feature Film category at the 93rd Academy Awards. Directed ...