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Whalefall
Whalefall The Belly of the Whale, a Testing Ground By Imanos Santos Three words suffice to capture the promise of Englouti (Whalefall): claustrophobic, visceral, initiatory. Brian Duffield's film, adapted from Daniel Kraus's novel Whalefall, arrives in cinemas on 14 October 2026, carried by 20th Century Studios and Imagine Entertainment, and these three qualities run through every minute of its story like a single held breath. Whalefall - Photo non contractuelle I Azaes Créa
Imanos Santos
2 days ago3 min read
KARMA
KARMA A Couple's Final Act, A Thriller's First By Serge Leterrier The Grand Théâtre Lumière gave Karma a six-minute standing ovation at its out-of-competition premiere at Cannes 2026. Guillaume Canet returns to the thriller genre twenty years after Tell No One, reuniting with Marion Cotillard, whom he had previously directed in Little White Lies, Rock'n Roll and Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom. Marion Cotillard - Photo for illustrative purposes only - Azaes Créations The
Serge Leterrier
5 days ago2 min read
JODIE FOSTER
JODIE FOSTER Between Shadow and Light By Serge Leterrier At sixty-three, Jodie Foster is afraid. She said so herself, on the stage at Cannes 2025, before the world's press gathered for the presentation of A Private Life: she had been too afraid to take on a leading role spoken entirely in French. Fifty years of career, two Oscars, films that have entered the legend. And yet, fear. That sentence perhaps says everything about the way this woman inhabits her craft. Fear as a com
Serge Leterrier
Jun 154 min read
CINEMA MAKES ITS APOCALYPSE
CINEMA MAKES ITS APOCALYPSE End of a World or a New Paradigm? By Serge Leterrier "Long before screens, there was the cave wall. Long before the projector, there was fire. Humanity has always told the stories of the worlds it leaves behind and the worlds it senses on the horizon." I Azaes Créations In our previous article devoted to the cinematic summer of 2026, we highlighted an unexpected trend: the return of silence at the heart of storytelling. A cinema more attentive to e
Serge Leterrier
Jun 14 min read
SUMMER 2026 IN CINEMA
SUMMER 2026 IN CINEMA What If It Were the Summer of Silence? By Serge Leterrier At first glance, the summer of 2026 appears to be filled with explosions, blockbuster productions, and global marketing campaigns. Yet behind the media noise, another trend is beginning to emerge. Several major films are giving more space to glances, hesitation, restrained emotions, and characters searching for balance. It is as if cinema is trying to rediscover the art of listening amid an age of
Serge Leterrier
May 293 min read
CANNES 2026 - 01
CANNES 2026 When the Festival Finally Slows Down This final stretch of the Cannes week brings a particular feeling. The Croisette remains crowded, screenings continue one after another, flashes still cover the red carpet, yet something shifts in the rhythm of the Festival. A different breath appears. Cannes gives the impression of looking more closely at cinema than at its own reflection. Peter Jackson receives the Honorary Palme d’Or, saluted for a visionary body of work tha
Serge Leterrier
May 153 min read
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
May 82 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
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