"Petit Freres," also written by Doillon, is the kind of hard-edged, life-on-the-streets film we associate with American movies. There's lots of talk of "gats" and some hard French rap underscoring ...
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À l’époque, Jacques Chirac est maire de Paris et les avions d’Air Inter sillonnent les cieux de l’Hexagone. Discrets marqueurs d’un film à la grande ampleur historique. Rose, avec son fils Jean, 11 ...
Léonor Serraille’s film Mother and Son contains moving strokes, but struggles to make a lasting emotional dent. The director of the 2017 Camera d’or winner Montparnasse Bienvenue returns to Cannes ...
Sort of a Parisian "Boyz in the Hood," director Jacques Doillon's "Petite Freres" (aka "Little Brothers") is a gritty, no-nonsense film about a 12-year-old girl who clings to her beloved dog and, ...
Après « Les pires », Romane Gueret et Lise Akoka offrent une chronique sociale brillamment écrite et à la mise en scène ...
Lise Akoka et Romane Guéret explorent avec sensibilité le dur chemin vers l'âge adulte. Porté par Fanta Kebe, Shirel Nataf et ...
Léonor Serraille's second feature is a sweeping portrait of an Ivorian mother building a life with her two sons in France. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic It doesn’t start that way, though.