France Archives | Dog And Wolf

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Cannes Film Festival 2023, France, out now, ReviewsSeptember 20, 2024

The Goldman Case (2023)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Goldman Case directed by Cédric Kahn grippingly reconstructs the 1976 trial of voluble and charismatic leftist Pierre Goldman and tackles antisemitism and history.

★★★, Canada, France, out now, TIFF 2024September 11, 2024

Toronto 2024: Shepherds (2024) (Bergers)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Shepherds (Bergers) directed by Sophie Deraspe is a lyrical drama based on Mathyas Lefebure’s book about rejecting his previous life and learning to be a shepherd in Provence.

★★★★, France, Italy, out now, Qatar, Reviews, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Venice Biennale 2024September 8, 2024

VENICE 2024: Aïcha (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Aïcha, directed by Mehdi Barsaoui, is a thrilling study of a young woman’s life amid endemic corruption in Tunisia, as she tries to find a new life and new identity.

★★★, France, out now, Reviews, Venice Biennale 2024September 2, 2024

VENICE 2024: The Mohican (2024) (Le Mohican)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Mohican directed by Frédéric Farrucci is a beautifully shot, deeply felt film about an ordinary goatherd who becomes a social media hero in Corsica when he defends his beliefs.

Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, out now, Reviews, Sweden, Venice Biennale 2024August 29, 2024

VENICE 2024: Quiet Life (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Quiet Life, directed by Alexander Avranas, shows how the stress of being a Russian refugee in Sweden can result in resignation syndrome (a ‘shutting down’).

★★★, comedy, France, Japan, out now, Venice Biennale 2024August 29, 2024

VENICE 2024: Super happy forever (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Super Happy Forever by Kohei Igarashi is a star-studded Japanese love story in reverse.

★★★★★, France, Germany, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews, TurkeyJuly 24, 2024

About Dry Grasses (2023) (Kuru Otlar Üstüne)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★★
About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan is another masterpiece from the Turkish auteur.

★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2023, documentary, France, out now, Picturehouse, ReviewsJuly 4, 2024

Orlando, My Political Biography (2023) (Orlando, Ma Biographie Politique)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Orlando, My Political Biography by trans activist Paul B Preciado is a moving documentary inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel.

★★★, Berlin Film Festival 2022, documentary, France, Icon, On Demand, out now, Reviews, VoDJune 9, 2024

Heart of an Oak (2022) (Le Chêne)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Heart of an Oak, directed by Laurent Charbonnier and Michel Seydoux, edited by Sylvie Lager, is a year of magnificent photography in the life of the creatures – animals, birds and insects – that live in or around a huge 200-year-old oak tree in a forest in France.

★★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2024, Female Filmmakers, France, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, out now, ReviewsMay 25, 2024

Cannes Film Festival 2024: Day 11: Thursday, 23 May: All We Imagine as Light (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★★
Cannes Film Festival: Day 11: All We Imagine As Light (2024). All We Imagine As Light is a beautiful film about the contrasting lives of three women in India, the second film directed by award-winning Payal Kapadia.

★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2024, France, out now, Reviews, SpainMay 21, 2024

Cannes Film Festival 2024: Day 7: Monday, 20 May: The Other Way Around (2024) (Volveréis)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Other Way Around directed by Jonás Trueba is a glossy romcom in reverse with a deeper philosophy.

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2024, France, out now, ReviewsMay 19, 2024

Cannes Film Festival 2024: Day 6: Sunday, 19 May: The Story of Souleymane (2024) (L’histoire de Souleymane)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Story of Souleymane directed by Boris Lojkine is a searingly realistic two days in the life of one of the invisible people – a bicycle courier in Paris.