There are many familiar faces in the cast of Queen of the Universe!
22.10.2021 - 06:15 / variety.com
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticJacques-Yves Cousteau had one of those faces that seemed to come from an earlier time — before the world wars, maybe even before the 20th century. It was a face so thin and tapered yet open, so creased with character, so French.
The hawkish Gallic nose. The Aznavour eyes.
The big wide stretchy geek smile that seemed to grin back at the entire world. (By the late ’60s, he was doing just that.) Cousteau didn’t just popularize undersea diving as we know it; he
.There are many familiar faces in the cast of Queen of the Universe!
Michael Nordine authorA case study in the importance of knowing as little about a movie’s plot in advance as possible, “Bloody Oranges” ends somewhere completely different from where it began with only minor stumbles along the way.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticA handsome if occasionally harebrained addition to the “great man” genre — with the added implication that such heroic feats might not have occurred were it not for an equally impressive lady working behind the scenes — “Eiffel” offers the half-invented story of Gustave Eiffel, the civil engineer who built the most recognizable monument in the world.From the opening seconds, the 2.66:1 CinemaScope aspect ratio is a clue that this project was not designed to
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Dennis Harvey Film CriticGallic horror specialists Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury stirred considerable excitement 14 years ago with their debut feature, the alarming home-invasion thriller “Inside.” They’ve struggled to duplicate that success since, and their English-language franchise bow “Leatherface” a decade later was poorly received, if somewhat undeservedly so.But they rekindle some enthusiasm with “The Deep House,” which was released in France this past June and now reaches U.S.
France and captured by Germany in August 1944. The P-38 Lightning was the U.S.-made fighter plane Moser was piloting when he went down.But don’t worry — you don’t need to know technical jargon or even care about aircraft to love Tom Clavin’s “Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival.” Though, if you are interested in the specs, rest assured Clavin scratches that itch.“Lightning Down” is a historical biography that contains the information of a textbook while reading like a novel.
Penelope Cruz steps out in a chic sweater look from Chanel for the brand’s Cruise 2021/22 Fashion Show held at Dubai Creek Harbour on Tuesday (November 2) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
LA from Paris via New York, had a spring in her step while out on the city's Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Chatting to a friend on FaceTime, Lily-Rose, 22, beamed as she made her way into a local store, where she purchased a healthy fruit smoothie.
Joy Behar is calling out Mark Zuckerberg.
In light of the information released in leaks by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen in recent weeks, “The View” host Joy Behar is a bit baffled at the lack of accountability for the social media giant.
Claudia Schiffer was dancing with some family friends in a nightclub in her hometown in Düsseldorf, Germany, when an agent approached the 17-year-old about becoming a model. A few months later, test shots in hand, she headed to Paris and into the exciting, glamorous world of fashion.
Alissa Simon Film CriticOne of several animated biopics about to segue from the festival circuit to the big screen, “Josep” is a slim but engaging tribute to the legacy of Spanish artist Josep Bartolí (1910-95), a Catalonian republican whose Goya-esque drawings of his time in French concentration camps inspired the film’s Gallic helmer and art director Aurel (birth name Aurélien Froment), himself an acclaimed press illustrator and cartoonist.
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After a long Covid delay, The French Dispatch opens this weekend with distributor Searchlight Pictures and the industry hoping the whimsical Wes Anderson’s film brings a touch of Grand Budapest Hotel-ish coin to the specialty box office.
MANY motorists will know that Citroen likes to do things differently, so its cars stand out from the crowd.
There’s a line that Bill Murray’s Harold Ross-like character Arthur Howitzer Jr, the editor of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, says a few times in Wes Anderson’s new movie that I can’t stop thinking about. “Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose,” he gently advises his staff.It’s clever, sure, and just familiar enough to make you wonder if it is some well-known writing advice.
Tomris Laffly France’s heroic leader Charles de Gaulle might have lent his name to airports and famed metropolitan intersections as one of the previous century’s most pivotal political figures. But save for a TV film here and a documentary there, he surprisingly has never been granted a major biopic of his own before.