All articles by Lisa Nesselson – Page 2
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Reviews‘Notre Dame On Fire’: Review
Jean-Jacques Annaud’s ambitious thriller is a suspenseful recreation of the 2019 Notre Dame cathedral fire
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Reviews‘Maigret’: Review
Gerard Depardieu leads an excellent ensemble cast in Patrice Leconte’s take on the classic French detective
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Reviews‘Deception’: Cannes Review
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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Reviews‘Drive My Car’: Cannes Review
Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi effectively adapts a short story by Haruki Murakami
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Reviews‘Good Mother’: Cannes Review
Hafsia Hersi shows her mettle in her second film, set in a Marseilles housing estate
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Reviews‘Playground’: Cannes Review
Life in a French primary school is a trauma to be endured in Laura Wandel’s gut-punch debut
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Reviews‘Onoda - 10,000 Nights in the Jungle’: Cannes Review
Opening Un Certain Regard, Arthur Harari’s feature follows a Japanese soldier who fights on through the decades
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Reviews‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’: Cannes Review
The business of life and death in Dijibouti City forms the basis for this Critics Week title
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Reviews‘The Swarm’: Cannes Label Review
Crunchy debut about a locust farm which was set for Cannes Critics Week and bought by Netflix
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Reviews‘Last Words’: Cannes Label Review
Jonathan Nossiter enlists a starry cast for his end-of-days misfire
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Reviews‘DNA’: San Sebastian Review
Maïwenn’s Cannes Label drama tracks a French-Algerian family after the death of its patriarch
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Reviews‘Summer Of 85’: Review
Francois Ozon’s film of an English novel was selected for Cannes and now releases on Bastille Day across France
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FeaturesWhat’s it like to go back to the cinema in the Covid era?
Cinemagoers in Tokyo, Copenhagen, Rome, Hong Kong, Seoul, Paris and Barcelona discuss their experiences.
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Reviews‘Love Affair(s)’: Cannes 2020 Label Review
Emmanuel Mouret delivers his take on the ‘Unapolagetic French Art Film’
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Reviews‘Josep’: Cannes 2020 Label Review
A delicate rendering of how Spanish artist Josep Bartoli escaped a prision camp in France
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Reviews‘Slalom’: Cannes 2020 Label Review
Jérémie Renier and Ava’s Noée Abita star in this provocative drama set in an elite ski school
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2019: Lisa Nesselson
Nesselson is in-house film critic for the English-language channel of France24, and has reviewed for Screen since 2008.
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Reviews‘In The Name Of The Land’: Review
Guillaume Canet stars in a real-life drama about France’s struggling farming community which has been a box office sensation locally