CRITICISM – Carried by the incandescent game of Anthony Hopkins, the first feature film by the French playwright crowned by his two Oscars is heartbreaking. Not to be missed this Wednesday February 2 on Canal + at 10:50 p.m. and on MyCanal. For some time, he has sometimes been aware of not being completely clear […]
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The Lost Daughter on Netflix: Olivia Colman feels motherly
CRITICAL – Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal signs her first film, a successful adaptation of one of Elena Ferrante’s novels. Its actress Olivia Colman could reap a new Oscar nomination in the skin of a misfit mother. Kidnapped child, depressed, indifferent or distant mothers. In his saga The prodigious friend, Elena Ferrante drew up in filigree a […]
New fight director Maggie Gyllenhaal reveals herself with The Lost Daughter
PORTRAIT – The American actress directs her first film, a successful adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel Stolen doll for Netflix. Meeting with a talented filmmaker. “I was born as a director in Venice.” Maggie Gyllenhaal is not ungrateful. The American actress rubbed shoulders with beautiful people on the Lido last September (Jane Campion, Paolo Sorrentino, […]
Dune, The Last Duel, Spencer, Last Night In Soho, The Power of the Dog … Hollywood is back at the Venice Film Festival
MOVIE THEATER – Rare in Cannes, the stars and American blockbusters will be present in force at the 78th Venice Film Festival in September. There is no question of being eclipsed by the Cannes Film Festival, which made a successful comeback under sanitary constraints and awarded the palm of gold to a director for the […]
The Father, in the name of the father
CRITICAL – Florian Zeller has adapted his play for the cinema, and it plunges us into Alzheimer’s disease. A touching film. Who are these people? In this apartment too big for him, Anthony no longer recognizes his daughter. Why does she tell him that she is going to leave London, to settle in Paris where […]
Anthony Hopkins: “‘The Father’ is one of my best films”
INTERVIEW – The unforgettable interpreter of Hannibal Lecter in Thesilenceofthelambs evokes the shocking shooting of Florian Zeller’s first film, his friendship with the French director and his second Oscar. At 83 Spring, Anthony Hopkins is all about the man in a hurry. He looks at you with a touch of anxiety through the Zoom reunion […]
Covid-19, corruption, new stars … The 2021 Golden Globes expected at the turn
DECRYPTION – Virtual because of the virus and shaken up by gloomy revelations, the ceremony could consecrate a new wave of talents and directors. The 78th Golden Globes will be awarded on the night of Sunday to Monday during a virtual ceremony straddling Beverly Hills, California, and New York. A first for the institution which […]
Florian Zeller: “My meeting with Anthony Hopkins seemed the most important of my life!”
INTERVIEW – In contention for the Golden Globes, the first film by the French playwright offers a great role to the actor in “Vestiges du jour”. Meeting with a happy but frustrated director. Awarded four Golden Globe nominations (Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Male Actor, Best Supporting Female Actress), and possibly Oscar winner, Florian Zeller’s […]
Golden Globes: four nominations for The Father, the first film by Florian Zeller with Anthony Hopkins
The cinematographic transposition into English of his play The father offers a good place for the film of the French playwright. Which already augurs for an exceptional career when it hits theaters. It is currently scheduled for next April … The announcement of the nominations for the Golden Globes kicked off the 2021 awards season […]