Lisa Nesselson

Reviews
‘Brother And Sister’: Cannes Review
2022-05-20T22:15:00
A sterling cast headed by Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud anchor Arnaud Desplechin’s intense sibling saga
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‘The Night Of The 12th’: Cannes Review
2022-05-20T19:24:00
Dominik Moll returns to Cannes with this fascinating police procedural
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‘Scarlet’: Cannes Review
2022-05-18T08:40:00
Directors’ Fortnight opens with Pietro Marcello’s unusual period semi-musical drama
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‘Notre Dame On Fire’: Review
2022-03-17T11:06:00
Jean-Jacques Annaud’s ambitious thriller is a suspenseful recreation of the 2019 Notre Dame cathedral fire
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‘Maigret’: Review
2022-02-22T10:58:00
Gerard Depardieu leads an excellent ensemble cast in Patrice Leconte’s take on the classic French detective
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‘Eiffel’: Review
2021-10-11T06:00:00
An old-fashioned homage to France’s towering genius
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‘Deception’: Cannes Review
2021-07-13T19:45:00
Arnaud Desplechin’s French-language adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1990 novel is ’accomplished French filmmaking the way arthouse denizens like it’
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‘Drive My Car’: Cannes Review
2021-07-11T16:00:00
Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi effectively adapts a short story by Haruki Murakami
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‘Good Mother’: Cannes Review
2021-07-10T14:36:00
Hafsia Hersi shows her mettle in her second film, set in a Marseilles housing estate
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‘Playground’: Cannes Review
2021-07-08T16:13:00
Life in a French primary school is a trauma to be endured in Laura Wandel’s gut-punch debut
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‘Onoda - 10,000 Nights in the Jungle’: Cannes Review
2021-07-07T20:00:00
Opening Un Certain Regard, Arthur Harari’s feature follows a Japanese soldier who fights on through the decades
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‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’: Cannes Review
2021-07-07T10:52:00
The business of life and death in Dijibouti City forms the basis for this Critics Week title
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‘We’: Berlin Review
2021-03-01T06:00:00
Alice Diop asks France, who are we, really?
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‘The Swarm’: Cannes Label Review
2020-10-13T11:58:00
Crunchy debut about a locust farm which was set for Cannes Critics Week and bought by Netflix
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‘Last Words’: Cannes Label Review
2020-09-30T17:09:00
Jonathan Nossiter enlists a starry cast for his end-of-days misfire
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‘DNA’: San Sebastian Review
2020-09-18T21:00:00
Maïwenn’s Cannes Label drama tracks a French-Algerian family after the death of its patriarch
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‘Summer Of 85’: Review
2020-07-14T11:00:00
Francois Ozon’s film of an English novel was selected for Cannes and now releases on Bastille Day across France
Features
What’s it like to go back to the cinema in the Covid era?
2020-07-03T08:06:00
Cinemagoers in Tokyo, Copenhagen, Rome, Hong Kong, Seoul, Paris and Barcelona discuss their experiences.
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‘Love Affair(s)’: Cannes 2020 Label Review
2020-06-26T07:37:00
Emmanuel Mouret delivers his take on the ‘Unapolagetic French Art Film’
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‘Josep’: Cannes 2020 Label Review
2020-06-23T08:30:00
A delicate rendering of how Spanish artist Josep Bartoli escaped a prision camp in France