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Tunisian-French filmmaker ABDELLATIF KECHICHE didn’t need the pandemic as an excuse to hunker down. It is well known that his ego and reputation took a hit after his Palme d’Or win for BLU...

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When life gives you lemons (or the president of your country begins a war with Ukraine) you make …. BUTTERFLY JAM. THR are dropping the news rather late on Friday night, but we have a new w...

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THRILL CRAZY. KILL CRAZY. GOD CRAZY: ABBASI TACKLES BRUTAL REALITY OF WOMEN AND ISLAMOFASCISM “Every man shall meet what he wishes to avoid,” is the sentiment opening ALI ABBASI’s bruta...

https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/ali-abbasi-holy-spider-review

IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU: NAGY RECUPERATES THE RESILIENCY OF WOMEN IN SOPHISTICATED MELODRAMA Camille Paglia, with her signature dramatic panache, might be among those who phrased it best conce...

https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/phyllis-nagy-call-jane-review

A GREAT WHITE HYPE: GRAY EXPLORES THE FARCE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN COMING OF AGE PORTRAIT Where are we going? Where have we been? These might be the rhetorical questions knocking about like...

https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/james-gray-armageddon-time-review

WAR IS HELL: GERMANY’S OSCAR ENTRY DELIVERS BLUNT & BRUTAL DEPICTION OF WWI The most haunting image in filmmaker EDWARD BERGER ’s latest take on ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT has nothin...

https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/edward-berger-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-review

Fresh off recent film festival premieres of hubby Michel Hazanavicius’ Final Cut (Cannes) and Francesca Archibugi’s The Hummingbird (TIFF), BÉRÉNICE BEJO will support indie French cinema...

https://www.ioncinema.com/news/foreign-film-news/berenice-bejo-nora-el-hourch-hlm-pussy

Marrakech has the indispensable Atlas Ateliers market as part of their festivities and the new kid on the block in the Red Sea Intl. Film Festival (second edition is held from December 1st to ...

https://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2022-red-sea-intl-film-festival-meryem-benmbarek-sofia-djama-ramata-toulaye-sy-featured-in-red-sea-souk

As per usual, IFFR likes to drop a sampling of confirmed titles just before the official line-up unveiling (namely the Tiger Competition on December 19th) and Artistic Director Vanja Kaludjerc...

https://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2023-iffr-charlotte-wells-aftersun-alice-diops-saint-omer

THE BIG C MINUS: BERCOT SUBMERGES MAUDLIN DISEASE DRAMA WITH SENTIMENTALITY Cancer isn’t the only element degrading the lives of those defined by it in EMMANUELLE BERCOT ’s latest feature...

https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/emmanuelle-bercot-peaceful-review