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The twenty-city “John Waters Christmas Show” tour began November 29 in San Francisco.1PETER VON KANT (François Ozon)By far the best movie of the year. Fassbinder’s classic lesbian melodrama is appropriated and remade as a gay Frenchman’s love letter to the original version. Hilariously stilted, often overwrought, but always highly entertaining, this cock-eyed tribute will make you swoon when Hanna Schygulla finally makes an appearance and Isabelle Adjani soon follows. My God, it’s jus...

Everything Went Fine sees the French director back in his more severe, social issues mode as he tells the story of a daughter whose wrestling with her father’s request that she euthanise him.

03/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas testifies to the precarious position of today’s urban youth and the complicated dreams of the socially mobile in a charming and romantic first feature

The World After Us by Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas to premiere at the Berlinale Aurélien Gabrielli in Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas has made a promising entrance into the world of international cinema with his debut feature film Having turned heads with his short films, especially Genève (screened in Clermont-Ferrand’s national competition last year), the director’s latest venture sees him putting together a cast comprising Aurélien Gabrielli (who made an appearance in Tout s’est bien passé...

12/02/2021 - Produced by Les Idiots, sold by Be For Films and starring Aurélien Gabrielli and Louise Chevillotte, the filmmaker’s first feature will enjoy its premiere in Berlin's Panorama line-up