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BABYGIRL d’Halina Reijn
Hyper-skillful and surprising, Dutch director Halina Reijn’s troubled erotic thriller earned the masterful Nicole Kidman a well-deserved Best Actress Award at the last Venice Film Festival. The actress plays a powerful woman, swept away in the cyclone of her forbidden desires.
I’M STILL THERE by Walter Salles
By retracing the story of a Brazilian family victimized in the 1970s by the barbarity of the dictatorship, Walter Salles summons the trauma of an entire country as much as he dives with emotion into his own memory.
- SEVEN WALKS WITH MARK BROWN by Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré
After the madman A prince (2023), Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré follow their paleobotanist friend Mark Brown in his project to reconstruct a primary forest in his garden, in Normandy. The result is a strolling and sensual documentary.
MEMORIES OF A SNAIL d’Adam Elliot
Fifteen years after winning the Feature Film Cristal at Annecy for its sublime Mary & Max (2009), Adam Elliot received this prestigious award again this summer for Memoirs of a snaila sumptuous learning story.
