Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By far the most important ingredient for any artist is life experience: When storytellers try to tackle anything more realistic ...
It’s not just that the woman (Marion Cotillard) goes missing for 21 years — registered as “absent” yet presumed dead — only to return and subsequently announce to a social services worker, “My name is ...
Take one part Fellini’s “8 ½,” one part Almodovar’s “Volver”, stir them together with a strong, steady dose of nervy French idiosyncrasy, and what do you get? Well, it wouldn’t be something terribly ...
The opening film of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival is several movies at once, some more successful than others. Within its first half hour, “Ismael’s Ghosts” weaves together espionage, melodrama, ...
French auteur Arnaud Desplechin's latest, 'Ismael's Ghosts,' stars Marion Cotillard, Mathieu Amalric and Charlotte Gainsbourg and opened the 70th Cannes Film Festival. By Boyd van Hoeij For its 70th ...
In his great film “8 1/2,” Federico Fellini depicts a director who is struggling to make his next movie. At the beginning of the film, he dreams he is trapped inside of a locked car. Somehow, he ...
As phony emotional showcases go, this one’s full of unintentionally comedic melodrama, rivaling cult favorite “The Room” at times as Amalric (reprising his role as the chronicallly unstable Ismael ...
It’s not just that the woman (Marion Cotillard) goes missing for 21 years — registered as “absent” yet presumed dead — only to return and subsequently announce to a social services worker, “My name is ...