Author: Boyd van Hoeij

Madeleine Collins

Leading a double life is no longer the dominion of spies in French director Antoine Barraud’s mystery-cum-character study Madeleine Collins, in which a woman tries to keep two families with kids going in two different countries...

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Happening

A student in 1960s provincial France has to deal with an unwanted pregnancy in a very hostile environment in Happening, the intimate but hard-hitting second feature from filmmaker Audrey Diwan. This adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s...

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Lost Illusions

There’s a shot, quite late into Xavier Giannoli’s lengthy adaptation of Balzac’s Lost Illusions, that sees the protagonist, a broke young writer, get out of bed naked after having slept with a former lover, a lady from the...

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Atlantide

Bored and blustery youths looking for something that makes them feel rebelliously alive is a storytelling cliché almost as old as the movies. So it is particularly exciting to see a film like the sun-blasted, water-sprayed...

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