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KARIATA N°3
Kariata numéro 3 An Inspiration Drawn from the World’s Showcase Between Shot and Reverse Shot By Marie Ange Barbancourt Editor‑in‑Chief and Director of Development, Diamond History Group A Festival is fertile ground for stories that make us dream, reflect, or laugh. A temporal voyage that allows us to absorb the essential memory of peoples. KARIATA N°3 Each of us has the privilege of placing every universe into its own carefully arranged chamber, where we may return at will
Marie Ange Barbancourt
1 day ago2 min read
MINOTAUR
MINOTAUR A film by Andrey Zvyagintsev The Inner Labyrinth Presented in the Official Selection of the 79th Cannes International Film Festival Anthony Xiradakis — For Diamont Media "What we flee takes shape in what we build." — Anthony Xiradakis Andrey Zvyagintsev has established himself over two decades as one of the most rigorous voices in world cinema. The Banishment, Elena, Leviathan — each film has dug a little deeper into the moral architecture of human existence, and in
Anthony Xiradakis
May 16 min read
PARALLEL STORIES
PARALLEL STORIES A film by Asghar Farhadi Understanding without reducing Presented in the Official Selection of the 79th Cannes Film Festival Serge Leterrier — For Diamont Média In Parallel Stories, Asghar Farhadi offers a space for perception rather than a narrative to resolve. Trajectories intersect, perspectives shift, and each point of view illuminates a fragment of reality. The film invites us to embrace human complexity with sincerity and clarity. Virginie Elfira I Scr
Serge Leterrier
Apr 244 min read
THIERRY FRÉMAUX
THIERRY FRÉMAUX Cannes’ Gaze, Between Discovery, Consecration, and the Writing of Time Imanos Santos — For Diamont Media Revealing Legitimizing Writing History Through his recent interview, Thierry Frémaux speaks of Cannes as a place capable of reading the present of cinema while already sensing the shape it is about to take. Behind that statement lies a larger question, one that concerns the true power of major festivals. To reveal, to legitimize, to write history, Cannes n
Imanos Santos
Apr 134 min read
PRESSURE
PRESSURE A film by Anthony Maras When History Awaits the Sky’s Permission Anthony Xiradakis — For Diamont Media “There are days when the fate of a century hangs on a break in the clouds.” — Anthony Xiradakis As D-Day approaches, Pressure shifts the gaze far away from military heroism alone. Anthony Maras seems to film a more fragile and vertiginous moment, the moment when human power discovers its dependence, when war, strategy and the will of commanders are suspended by a d
Anthony Xiradakis
Apr 105 min read
THE DRAMA
THE DRAMA A film by Kristoffer Borgli Love as Narrative, Truth as Rupture By Serge Leterrier — For Diamont Media Just days before their wedding, a secret shakes a couple to the core. That is the premise. The Drama goes far deeper. It dissects the way each person invents the other within the architecture of their own mental framework. The shock does not merely destroy a relationship; it destroys the intimate narrative that made that relationship possible. Kristoffer Borgli de
Serge Leterrier
Apr 36 min read
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 A Film by David Frankel When Miranda Meets the Algorithm Imanos Santos — For Diamont Média Authority — Algorithm — Vertigo Twenty years later, The Devil Wears Prada 2 returns with a question burning on my lips: who decides value today? Miranda embodies the authority of the gaze, facing the algorithm, budgets, speed. A sequel that speaks of fashion, yet dissects above all our era. Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada I Azaes Création This second chap
Imanos Santos
Mar 304 min read
Cannes in a Time of Conflict
79th CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Cannes in a Time of Conflict Serge Leterrier — For Diamont Média The Hospitality of Images “ When the world closes in, a place that welcomes becomes a necessity. ”— Serge Leterrier In wartime, the Cannes Film Festival reads less as a celebration than as a structure. Behind the red carpet, another reality is at work: visas, travel routes, security, translation, the market, the dark theater, shared silence. A concrete, decisive craft of hospitality tha
Serge Leterrier
Mar 274 min read
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER A film of Paul Thomas Anderson War as a Tribunal Academy Awards 2026 By Anthony Xiradakis At the 98th Academy Awards , One Battle After Another earned 13 nominations and won six Oscars : Best Picture , Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson), Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn), Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Film Editing , and Best Casting . This recognition marks a singular moment: Hollywood is honoring a film that sidesteps the usual action-thrille
Anthony Xiradakis
Mar 168 min read
DISCLOSURE DAY
DISCLOSURE DAY The Day the World Loses Its Voice Anthony Xiradakis "When speech fails, reality demands a new consciousness." — Anthony Xiradakis Disclosure Day takes science fiction in reverse. Indeed, the film's object is not the UFO, it is disclosure. A truth changes status, passes from secret to common good, and humanity discovers the most fragile limit of any civilization: its capacity to name. When the voice cuts out live, Spielberg films less a shock from the sky than
Anthony Xiradakis
Mar 106 min read
Cinema Under Pressure
Cinema Under Pressure What if real life were like the movies? A State of Cinema Under Tension — Between the Visible Line and the Invisible By Marie Ange Barbancourt Editor-in-Chief and Director of Development Diamond History Group He belongs to that rare breed of journalists in whom art and craft exist in perfect harmony. Serge Leterrier sculpts words with precision and dissects cinematic writing like a surgeon — his reflection finely honed, his blade never missing its mark
Marie Ange Barbancourt
Mar 62 min read
THE WOMEN’S HOUSE
THE WOMEN’S HOUSE A film by Mélisa Godet The Intimate Architecture of The Women’s House By Serge Leterrier “ You rebuild a woman with what is tangible: time, structure, and gestures that are true. ” — Serge Leterrier A house always begins with a threshold. In The Women's House , that threshold separates two ways the world can feel: outside, noise and threat; inside, a space where words find support again. This passage is not merely architectural — it is spiritual. It marks th
Serge Leterrier
Mar 35 min read
BUGONIA
BUGONIA A Film by Yorgos Lanthimos Conspiracy as Emotional Refuge By Anthony Xiradakis Academy Award-Nominated "Chaos always seeks a face. Even an invented one." The Psychic Shelter Two men kidnap a woman. They believe her to be extraterrestrial. They think she orchestrates the end of the world. This conviction drives them to act. They meticulously prepare their operation. They surveil, plan, execute. Their logic holds together. Each element interlocks. Each clue confirms the
Anthony Xiradakis
Feb 176 min read
GOUROU
GOUROU By Yann Gozlan The Marketplace of Meaning By Serge Leterrier In Gourou , Yann Gozlan does not portray a spectacular figure of domination. He films a shift. A slow, almost imperceptible drift. Something that settles quietly into a space already weakened. The story unfolds without noise, without excess, with the patience of a process that takes root because the ground allows it. The gaze moves away from caricature to reach something more sensitive, more contemporary:
Serge Leterrier
Feb 135 min read
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier Loving Without Resolution By Lysandra DL Academy Award–nominated “Some bonds do not seek to heal. They learn how to endure.” Sentimental Value can be read as a film about love that survives without repair, about emotional inheritance without consolation, about creation as an attempt to reach what remains irreducibly lost. In Sentimental Value , Trier approaches the family the way one approaches a fragile object kept too long in a sealed roo
Lysandra DL
Feb 105 min read
HAMNET
HAMNET Directed by Chloé Zhao “Carrying Absence” By Lyssandra DL “Some pains never heal. You simply learn to accept them.” The Crack Hamnet falls ill one summer morning. The fever rises. His body burns. Agnes lays her hands on his forehead, searches through plants, through the gestures of the old ways, through everything she knows about life and death. Nothing works. The eleven-year-old boy slips away—slowly, inexorably. He leaves behind a void that will never close. The film
Lysandra DL
Feb 36 min read
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
WUTHERING HEIGHTS Emerald Fennell and Passion as an Abyss By Serge Leterrier “What if literature’s greatest love story was, in truth, a tale of mutual destruction?” On February 13, 2026 , Emerald Fennell takes hold of Emily Brontë’s monument with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi —a collision poised to reawaken one of English literature’s most ravaging myths. But beyond the cinematic event, something deeper is at stake: a meditation on passion as a force that does not elevate—
Serge Leterrier
Jan 164 min read
Jacques Kam
Jacques Kam The Architect in the Shadows, a Pillar of African Cinema By Faustin André Cédric Kissi Koua In the glare of spotlights and the pageantry of red carpets, attention naturally turns to directors, actors, and screenwriters. Yet away from the cameras—far from applause—works a central figure without whom no film could ever be made: the general production manager (chief location manager). A true architect in the shadows, he is the quiet guarantor of a shoot’s success. In
Koua Faustin André Cédric
Jan 133 min read
CROSSED PORTRAITS
CROSSED PORTRAITS Xavier Dolan & Pedro Almodóvar The Intimate in Technicolor By Imanos Santos Feverish, baroque, sincere—three words to trace the outline of two filmmakers who refuse the lukewarm comfort of their time. They are feverish because they shoot on the edge of rupture, in that fragile zone where emotion threatens to flood everything. Their cameras feel like instruments of survival: Dolan films as one confesses, breath short, nerves exposed; Almodóvar composes like
Imanos Santos
Jan 94 min read
THE DISSOCIATION OF TIME
THE DISSOCIATION OF TIME In Cinema By Serge Leterrier “Cinema dissociates time to reveal its inner truth, turning chronology into living matter—where memory, desire, and perception sculpt duration.” — Serge Leterrier The dissociation of time in cinema often appears before the first shot, in that precise shiver when the theater goes dark and the mind consents to another temporality. The film then offers a singular experience: the instant no longer answers to the rhythm of hand
Serge Leterrier
Jan 65 min read
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