The Taste of Things, 2023. Directed by Anh Hung Tran. Starring Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger, Patrick d’Assumçao, Galatea Bellugi, Jan Hammenecker, Frédéric Fisbach, Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire, and Jean-Marc Roulot. SYNOPSIS: The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet with whom she has been working for over the last 20 years. […]
Movie Review – Paris Memories (2023)
Paris Memories, 2023. Directed by Alice Winocour. Starring Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin, Amadou Mbow, and Maya Sansa. SYNOPSIS: A Parisian tries to make sense of her fractured memories in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. By retracting the steps that led up to the event, she begins to piece together what happened and […]
UK trailer for Alice Winocour’s Paris Memories starring Virginie Efira
Alice Winocour’s (Augustine, Disorder, Proxima) moving drama of memory and loss, Paris Memories is released in the UK this August by Picturehouse Entertainment. The poignant drama stars Virginie Efira (Benedetta, Elle) as Mia, someone trying to rebuild her life in the aftermath of a violent attack. Inspired by the filmmaker’s memories of the 2015 attack on Paris’s […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2022 Review – Incredible But True
Incredible but True, 2022. Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. Starring Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, and Anaïs Demoustier. SYNOPSIS: Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever. French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux’s one-man […]
Watch the trailer for French crime thriller Fast Convoy
Under the Milky Way has released a poster and trailer for Fast Convoy, the latest crime thriller from director Frédéric Schoendoerffer (Secret Agents, Crime Insiders) and starring Benoît Magimel (The Piano Teacher, La Haine). Check them out here, along with the official synopsis… Seven men, four cars and 1,300 kilos of cannabis leave Malaga, southern Spain, […]
Movie Review – The Connection (2014)
The Connection (a.k.a. La French), 2014. Directed by Cédric Jimenez Starring Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, Mélanie Doutey, Guillaume Gouix, Benoît Magimel, Bruno Todeschini, Moussa Maaskri and Féodor Atkine. SYNOPSIS: A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country’s most powerful drug rings. If La French succeeds at anything […]
