Riding high after taking Best Film at the César Awards — beating out Nouvelle Vague, It Was Just an Accident, and Case 137 — for her Orizzonti-premiered L’Attachement (The Ties That Bind Us), which preemed this past February, Carine Tardieu will be heading to Cannes next month as one of the eight filmmakers in the Investors Circle, and kicking off production on her sixth feature film project shortly after. La vie obstinée lines up a savoury trio of players — we find with upcoming Cannes competition film La Vie d’une Femme (by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet) duet of Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry quickly re-teaming on this new project and completing the trio we find Benoît Magimel.… Read the rest
“Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true,” so said 
In 1927, The New York Times declared that Warsaw had regained its pre-war status as Paris Of The North, calling it the “gayest, cleanest and most feminine of European cities.” However, the distinctive charms of its prewar architectural glamor have undergone a change, with the skyline now dotted by towering modern edifices such as the Warsaw Spire, Zlota 44, and The Bridge. Even the old school trams have been replaced with modern light rail. The characters in Pete Ohs delightful Erupcja are similarly caught between past and present in this summery, loose-limbed look at relationships under scaffolding.… 
