Tag: Interviews

Ivan Sen on the outback noir in Limbo

  By © Jane Freebury With digs as far as the eye can see, the remote mining town of Coober Pedy has attracted the attention of many filmmakers,…

Interview with Rolf de Heer on his new film, The Survival of Kindness

    Set against the beautiful backdrops of Australian desert and mountain wilderness, foregrounding brutality and compassion in a post-apocalyptic world, there is, as with each of his…

Louis Garrel, director of The Innocent, interview

  By © Jane Freebury A comedy about a caring son caught up in a heist as he tries to protect his transgressive mother, has a lot going…

Jerome Salle, interview with director of Kompromat

Interview by © Jane Freebury   Keeping political opponents in check by threatening to expose their compromising behaviour, true or otherwise, is not exclusive to Russia, but seems…

Interview with Dominik Moll, director, The Night of the 12th

  Dominik Moll discusses how The Night of the 12th moves beyond the murder suspects into community attitudes towards victim behaviour   By © Jane Freebury A film…

Eric Gravel, director of Full Time, discusses his new film featuring Laure Calamy

By © Jane Freebury The last time we saw Laure Calamy, she was chasing her married lover on a hiking holiday in rural France. Her character ends up…

Maigret a one-off, says director Patrice Leconte

    By © Jane Freebury The versatile, veteran French filmmaker Patrice Leconte, whose work includes fine films like The Hairdresser’s Husband, Ridicule, Girl on the Bridge and…

Mads Mikkelsen, he can play anything

  Riders of Justice interview Director, Anders Thomas Jensen and lead actor, Mads Mikkelsen   By © Jane Freebury It’s quite the transformation. For his role in Riders…

At home with The Truth: interview with director Hirokazu Kore-ada

By © Jane Freebury After winning the top prize at Cannes festival last year for his film, Shoplifters, the director Hirokazu Kore-ada went to work on a new…