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A biographical film of novelist Violette Leduc

A biographical film of novelist Violette Leduc

Like his celebrated film Séraphine, writer/director Martin Provost’s Violette  is another engrossing biopic of a little known French female artist of the 20th Century: the novelist Violette Leduc (190 ...
Secrets revealed in Dracula Untold

Secrets revealed in Dracula Untold

Dracula Untold aims to establish yet another vampire franchise with this feature-length pilot that explains the origin of the legendary Dracula the vampire. Before dismissing Dracula Untold as the pre ...
A complex, twist and turn of events in Ida

A complex, twist and turn of events in Ida

Joyce Glasser reviews Ida (September 26, 2014) Cert. 12, 82 min. The eponymous Ida (impressive newcomer, Agata Trzebuchowska) is an orphan who has grown up, sheltered and unworldly, in a convent and w ...