Tag: Laurent Cantet
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Another remarkable achievement from Robin Campillo as he imagines his youth in Madagascar, 1970.
Joyce Glasser reviews Red Island (March 1, 2024) Cert 12A, 117 mins in French with English subtitles Robin Campillo might be best known for his powerful 2017 film, 120 BPM, […]
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If we get no answers, the camera’s unabashed intrusiveness makes voyeurs of us all.
Joyce Glasser reviews La MIF (February 25, 2022) Cert 15, 112 mins. French director Laurent Cantet’s 2006 film, The Class, is a kind of faux-documentary in which the teenage students […]
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There’s murder on the mind in a summer writing workshop in Cantet’s unpredictable French drama
Joyce Glasser reviews The Workshop (L’atelier) (November 16, 2018), Cert. 15, 114 min. The unbeatable team of director Laurent Cantet and scriptwriter Robin Campillo continues, after a brief separation (in all but […]
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Disillusioned Cuban idealists reveal all in this talky drama filmed in Havana
Joyce Glasser reviews Return to Ithaca (August 25th, 2017 and DVD release September 25, 2017), Cert. 15, 91 min. While Homer’s Odysseus (Ulysses) struggles for ten years to return from Troy […]