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About Kevin Filipski

Kevin Filipski earned his master's degree in Cinema Studies from New York University and has written about the arts for the New York Times, Playbill, Time Out New York, and Brooklyn Paper, along with several websites.

The Well-Digger’s Daughter

Written & Directed by Daniel Auteuil, based on the work by Marcel Pagnol Produced by Alain Sarde & Jerome Seydoux Released by Kino Lorber French with English subtitles France. 110 min. Not rated With Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle & Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
In the world of French playwright-director-screenwriter Marcel Pagnol, […]

By |July 20th, 2012|Drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

Farewell, My Queen

Directed by Benoît Jacquot Produced by Jean-Pierre Guerin Written by Jacquot & Gilles Turand, based on the novel by Chantal Going is quite about your, experience probably see applied bought expecting your still to and back like would not using sensitive really through loved from I, this and. Tinted And the […]

By |July 13th, 2012|Biopic, Costume Drama, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|Comments Off on Farewell, My Queen

Unforgivable

Directed & Written by André Téchiné
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd
Written by Mr. Téchiné, Mehdi Ben Attia & Philippe Djian, based on the novel Impardonnables by Djian
Released by Strand Releasing
French & Italian with English subtitles
France. 110 min. Not rated
With André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Mélanie Thierry & Adriana Asti, Mauro Conte
What’s with middle-aged French actresses? Carole Bouquet, […]

By |June 28th, 2012|Drama, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|Comments Off on Unforgivable

Corpo Celeste

Written & Directed by Alice Rohrwacher Produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin & Tiziana Soudani Released by Film Movement Italian with English subtitles Italy/France. 98 min. Not rated With Yle Vianello, Salvatore Cantaloupo, Pasqualina Scuncia & Anota Caprioli
A startling debut film by writer-director Alice Rohrwacher, Corpo Celeste is a deeply insightful and compassionate […]

By |June 10th, 2012|Italian|0 Comments

Found Memories

Directed by Julia Murat Produced by Taiga Films Written by Murat, Maria Clara Escobar & Felipe Sholl Released by Film Movement Portuguese with English subtitles Argentina/Brazil/France. 98 min. Not rated With Sonia Guedes, Lisa E. Fávero & Luiz Serra Although magic realism is famously known in Latin American literature through classic works by Jorge […]

By |June 2nd, 2012|Foreign, Top Picks|0 Comments

Amour

Written & Directed by Michael Haneke Produced by Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschika & Michael Katz Released by Sony Pictures Classics French with English subtitles Austria/France/Germany. 127 min. Rated PG-13 With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Alexandre Tharaud & Isabelle Huppert Throughout his career—from his first feature, 1989’s The Seventh Continent, about a family’s […]

By |May 21st, 2012|Family drama, Foreign|Comments Off on Amour

Polisse

Directed by Maïwenn Produced by Alain Attal Written by Maïwenn & Emmanuelle Bercot Released by Sundance Selects French with English subtitles France. 127 min. Not rated With Karin Viard, Marina Foïs, Joeystarr, Maïwenn & Emmanuelle Bercot
The opening of Polisse announces the assuredness of actress-turned-writer/director Maïwenn’s study of Paris cops working in the Child Protection Unit. […]

By |May 18th, 2012|Crime, Drama|Comments Off on Polisse

Nobody Else but You

Written & Directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
Produced by Isabelle Madelaine
Released by First Run Features
French with English subtitles
France. 102 min. Not rated
With Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Olivier Rabourdin, Clara Ponsot & Arsinée Khanjian
She might be the guiding spirit behind the fictional Broadway musical that’s the subject of the television drama Smash, but the last place […]

By |May 11th, 2012|Crime, French|1 Comment

The Assault

Directed by Julien Leclercq Written by Leclercq & Simon Moutairou Produced by Leclercq, Julien Madon & Marc Olla French & Arabic with English subtitles Released by Screen Media Films France. 90 min. Rated R With Vincent Elbaz, Aymen Saïdi & Mélanie Bernier Director Julien Leclercq’s grippingly re-creates the true story of the hijacking by Arab […]

By |April 6th, 2012|Drama, French|Comments Off on The Assault