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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
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
THE NEW GODS
THE NEW GODS Why Cinema Keeps Creating Mythologies By Serge Leterrier From Christopher Nolan's Odyssey to the heroes of Masters of the Universe, the summer of 2026 seems to reconnect with a tradition as old as humanity itself. Faces change, settings evolve, technology transforms images — yet the great stories endure. They continue to speak of the search for meaning, of transmission, and of the path that leads each generation toward its own destiny. I Azaes Créations Among the
Serge Leterrier
Jun 54 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
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Bitter Christmas (Autofiction) Or Guilt Turned Into Cinema by Serge Leterrier Sunday night, the Grand Théâtre Lumière held its breath. Pedro Almodóvar had just placed on the Croisette the question every creator fears hearing spoken aloud: how far are we willing to hurt the people closest to us in order to bring a work of art into existence? Pedro Almodovar I Azaes Créations Amarga Navidad — released internationally under the title Autofiction — begins with a
Serge Leterrier
May 203 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
SHEEP IN THE BOX
SHEEP IN THE BOX A film by Hirokazu Kore-eda The Birth of a Bond Presented in the Official Selection of the 79th Cannes International Film Festival Lyssandra DL — For Diamont Media In Sheep in the Box, Hirokazu Kore-eda accompanies the birth of a relationship with infinite delicacy. Between presence and projection, the film explores what lies beyond the real — and what allows attachment to take form. I Azaes Créations - Visual reconstruction — scene inspired by the film, not
Lysandra DL
May 44 min read
A TRIBUTE TO NATHALIE BAYE
A TRIBUTE TO NATHALIE BAYE What Nathalie Baye Did Not Show Serge Leterrier — For Diamont Media "Some presences leave the screen. They remain in the way we receive light." — Serge Leterrier What Nathalie Baye did not show opens a space immediately. A discreet territory, almost secret, one that eludes the obvious and the hasty glance. It leads toward an actress whose presence never sought to impose itself, but to inscribe itself in something deeper, quieter, more lasting. Nat
Serge Leterrier
Apr 205 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
MOTHER MARY
MOTHER MARY A film by David Lowery Beneath the Icon, the Memory of a Wound Lysandra DL — For Diamont Media On the eve of a return to the spotlight, Mother Mary shifts the gaze far away from the usual narrative of fame. David Lowery seems to be filming something else here, an icon reclaimed by her own memory, a public body caught up by those who helped shape it, an image pierced by what it once believed it had buried. Beneath the radiance, the film appears to uncover a deeper
Lysandra DL
Apr 66 min read
MICHAEL B. JORDAN
MICHAEL B. JORDAN Two Presences, One Face Oscars 2026 Serge Leterrier — For Diamont Média Sinners leaves this Oscars night with four statuettes that outline a complete victory: Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson, and Best Cinematography for Autumn Durald Arkapaw. Best Actor Oscar for Sinners I @ screenshot live ABC Best Actor for Sinners “Here, the performance comes down to one thing: crea
Serge Leterrier
Mar 164 min read
PROJECT HAIL MARY
PROJECT HAIL MARY A film by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Solitude as a Planet By Imanos Santos Amnesia — Ingenuity — Alliance A man wakes up far from everything, without memory, with emptiness as his only neighbor. Project Hail Mary tells a space mission, yes, but above all an inner experience: solitude pushed until it becomes a planet. And in that total silence, the film offers a sharp, deeply contemporary idea: what saves us is not only a solution, but an alliance. You
Imanos Santos
Mar 135 min read
NO OTHER CHOICE
NO OTHER CHOICE A Film by Park Chan-wook When the World Turns the Unthinkable into a Solution “No other choice. The worst part isn’t the crime. It’s the logic behind it.” — Serge Leterrier Some titles announce a plot. Others announce a trap. This one does more than name a story: it plants an idea inside the viewer’s mind. A sentence that sounds like fate, like evidence, almost like an excuse. A sentence we hear everywhere, in a thousand everyday forms as well as in extreme
Serge Leterrier
Feb 207 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
MARTY SUPREME
MARTY SUPREME D irected by Josh Safdie Existing Through the Gesture By Anthony Xiradakis “Some people learn to exist in proportion to what they accomplish.” In Marty Supreme , Josh Safdie films a body in motion—but more than that, a mind under strain. This is not the story of a champion’s rise. It is an observation of how a human being learns to merge with what he does. Marty moves through the world with the certainty that existence must be proven. Every gesture, every point
Anthony Xiradakis
Feb 64 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
RETURN TO SILENT HILL
RETURN TO SILENT HILL A Confession in the Fog By Serge Leterrier “In the fog, it isn’t the path that disappears… it’s the illusion.” We often believe horror films follow one simple rule: there is a threat, there is danger, and someone must survive. We expect screams, monsters, shadows, a sequence of shocks carefully planted in darkness. And then certain films shift the ground entirely. They do not simply aim to frighten. They provoke recognition. As if, instead of running fro
Serge Leterrier
Jan 276 min read
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