Tag: The Mother and the Whore

  • American French Film Festival to honour Charles Gillibert (exclusive)

    American French Film Festival to honour Charles Gillibert (exclusive)

    Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin to be posthumously honoured with special screenings.The American French Film Festival (formerly Colcoa, will honour producer and CG Cinéma founder Charles Gillibert at its 2022 edition.Gillibert, the former mk2 executive, who has worked with Olivier Assayas, Xavier Dolan and Abbas Kiarostami, is part of the festival’s Focus On The Producer strand.He…

  • Critic’s Notebook: Looking for Connections in a Less-Than-Dazzling Cannes Lineup

    Critic’s Notebook: Looking for Connections in a Less-Than-Dazzling Cannes Lineup

    This year, the Cannes Film Festival kicked off with a restoration of Jean Eustache’s 1973 ménage à trois scandal “The Mother and the Whore” and concluded with a screening of controversial Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness,” creating an odd kind of symmetry for the event’s 75th anniversary edition, between which I somehow managed to…