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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
1 day ago6 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
NUREMBERG
NUREMBERG When Evil Becomes a Mirror By Serge Leterrier The Trap of Understanding On January 28, 2026, the anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg arrives in theaters, starring Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, and Michael Shannon. Beyond its historical recreation of the 20th century's most significant trial, the film poses a dizzying question rarely explored in cinema: what happens to the consciousness of a man who must look absolute evil in the face and
Serge Leterrier
Jan 206 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
BRIGITTE BARDOT
BRIGITTE BARDOT The Transmutation of the Sacred Feminine By Serge Leterrier From consumed idol to fierce guardian: reading a spiritual metamorphosis This Sunday, December 28, 2025, a house facing the Mediterranean witnessed the completion of one of the century's most radical metamorphoses. Brigitte Bardot died at 91, facing that sea which was always far more than a backdrop: a mirror, a refuge, a matrix of dissolution and rebirth. La Madrague, this name turned legend, was n
Serge Leterrier
Dec 30, 20255 min read
THE SILENT SOUL
THE SILENT SOUL When the Object Becomes the Hero By Anthony Xiradakis Cinema sometimes performs a quiet miracle: it turns the inanimate into the most alive presence on screen. Not through gimmickry, but through a deeper operation—one that exposes how humans attach destiny, memory, and meaning to the things that surround them. In certain films, the true protagonist does not breathe, speak, or bleed. It simply is —and that stillness becomes its signature. Consider The Red Bal
Anthony Xiradakis
Dec 26, 20252 min read
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH A film by James Cameron The Burn of the Real, the Caress of the Sacred By Serge Leterrier A symbolic and initiatory reading of the third Avatar “Fire does not always destroy: sometimes it reveals what was already burning within us.” Avatar: Fire and Ash comes forward like an incandescent mirror held up to our era—its ruins, its rebirths. James Cameron has nothing left to prove in spectacle; he no longer needs to persuade us that Pandora can expand to the
Serge Leterrier
Dec 19, 20256 min read
Furcy, Born Free
Furcy, Born Free Dignity on the Edge of the Abyss By Anthony Xiradakis “The ink of masters draws chains; the ink of resisters engraves History.” Law can lie. Legal systems devised by human beings sometimes carry within them a particular kind of violence, one that turns humanity into merchandise, flesh into property, existence into a commercial transaction. The cinema of Abou Ndiaye confronts this fundamental contradiction: how can one remain oneself when the legal system decr
Anthony Xiradakis
Dec 12, 20255 min read
LAURENT BITTY
LAURENT BITTY Architect of a New Ivorian Audiovisual Ecosystem By Faustin André Cédric Kissi Koua The Ivorian film and audiovisual landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by key figures whose commitment extends far beyond artistic production to include structuring the sector and passing on knowledge. Among them, Laurent Bitty stands out as a central figure, combining the roles of perceptive producer, socially engaged director, and president of initiatives th
Koua Faustin André Cédric
Dec 9, 20253 min read
MAGELLAN
MAGELLAN Dawn of the World By Imanos Santos Epic ~ Visceral ~ Visionary The ocean howls its verdict. The sails snap against the mast while Fernando de Magalhães stares at the horizon with the stubborn resolve of men who refuse reason. Cinema regains here its primary vocation: to show the impossible, to etch onto the screen the trembling lines of human courage confronting the cosmic indifference of the elements. Magellan --------------------------------------------------------
Imanos Santos
Nov 28, 20256 min read
FRENCH CINEMA RESISTS
FRENCH CINEMA RESISTS An Alternative to the Blockbuster By Serge Leterrier "Faced with content uniformization, faced with algorithms that format narratives, these filmmakers choose rigor, singularity, risk." December 3, 2025 marks a singular date for French cinema. Three works release simultaneously, three narratives refusing the ease of mainstream spectacle to plunge into the abysses of the human psyche. This synchronicity reveals more than calendar coincidence: it testifies
Serge Leterrier
Nov 25, 20253 min read
QHER WILL BE DONE
QHER WILL BE DONE A Film by Julia Kowalski By Serge Leterrier Peasant Witchcraft: Kowalski's Radical Gambit From the opening frames of Her Will Be Done , this familiar blend of mud and peasant Catholicism seemed destined to join the crowded ranks of French rural chronicles sprinkled with genre elements. Here's where the misunderstanding begins. The Franco-Polish director plays with our expectations to better subvert them, transforming what could have been another portrait of
Serge Leterrier
Nov 21, 20253 min read
SOULM8TE
SOULM8TE Artificial Intelligence at the Service of Desire By Anthony Xiradakis “SOULM8TE ventures into the troubled space where grief merges with desire, and where technology pretends to fill what remains unspeakable. Kate Dolan dissects the illusion of manufactured love, revealing the fragility of a man who entrusts his loneliness to a machine rather than to his own humanity.” Grief wears a thousand faces. Some people cry, others retreat into oblivion. He chooses technology.
Anthony Xiradakis
Nov 18, 20254 min read
THE RUNNING MAN
THE RUNNING MAN Survival in Its Rawest Form By Imanos Santos Relentless. Electric. Prophetic. Relentless The machine crushes. It crushes bodies, hopes, illusions of justice. Ben Richards discovers this truth when the system rejects him definitively. A blacklisted construction worker, father to a sick daughter demanding unaffordable medicine, he traverses existence with that exhaustion marking the socially condemned. Every door remains shut. Each refusal drives deeper the na
Imanos Santos
Nov 14, 20256 min read
Ella McCay
Ella McCay A movie by James L. Brooks Balancing, Sincere, Human By Imanos Santos Some films allow themselves to be confined within formulas. Others resist, overflow, demand to be approached through multiple paths. Ella McCay belongs to this second category. To grasp the substance of this work where James L. Brooks rediscovers all his power after years of absence, three words emerge. Three qualities that, together, sketch the portrait of a rare cinema: one that dares to fil
Imanos Santos
Nov 5, 20256 min read
ECHOES OF THE PAST
ECHOES OF THE PAST The Ontology of Repetition A film by Mascha Schilinski By Anthony Xiradakis "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx Time is not a line. This truth, long established by contemporary physics, cinema still struggles to translate into images. Mascha Schilinski takes up this challenge in her second feature film with an ambition bordering on excess. Four young girls in four different eras—Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka—go throug
Anthony Xiradakis
Nov 4, 20257 min read
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson's Mastered Chaos By Imanos Santos Unsteady. Furious. Chaplinesque. The bathrobe flutters in the California wind. Bob Ferguson is no hero. He reeks of alcohol, his poorly trimmed beard tells the story of years of neglect, and his paranoid gaze betrays a man who abandoned his ideals somewhere between the Mexican border and a broken-down couch. Yet he's the one Paul Thomas Anderson chose to carry his most ambitious, most expensive, m
Imanos Santos
Oct 31, 20259 min read
Wicked: For Good
Wicked: For Good The Final Chapter By Anthony Xiradakis "Between two souls who clash, friendship always finds its way to the light." November 19, 2025 marks the triumphant return of Elphaba and Glinda to screens worldwide. Following the planetary tidal wave of the first installment, Jon M. Chu completes his masterful diptych with Wicked: For Good, an epic conclusion that promises to move as much as it enchants. The title itself resonates with particular depth, a direct refere
Anthony Xiradakis
Oct 24, 20257 min read
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