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Festivals, Film, Foreign February 29, 2016 April 12, 2016

AFFF 2016: Film Review: Microbe & Gasoline (2015)

Microbe & Gasoline is the latest feature of French auteur Michel Gondry. Pre-teenage adolescent Daniel (Ange Dargent) feels overly anxious and misplaced in life. At…

Current Theatrical Releases, Festivals, Film, Foreign March 5, 2013 March 5, 2013

Film Review: Thérèse Desqueyroux (2012)

by Mark Hewitt

Adapted from François Mauriac’s novel of the same name, Claude Miller’s final film retells the story of provincial French life in the late 1920s with sombre beauty. Capturing the painterly quality of the vast pine forests of the Landes region the southwest, France, Thérèse Desqueyroux is a well-crafted drama of subtle charm.