Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I was very struck by a quote by Fritz Lang, who said that ‘every film should criticize something,’ ” Axelle Ropert says. For the ...

Cinematic realism is at its best when it’s dialectical—when seemingly transparent representations of dramatic action are heightened, tweaked, transformed to call attention to their styles, their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The doctors of Axelle Ropert's "Miss and the Doctors" are a pair of bachelor physicians who immerse themselves in their family ...

film profile] (unveiled in competition in Locarno), "for the accuracy with which she depicts forms of suffering which appear to be straightforward, but which leave lasting wounds - those we experience ...

French cinema, no matter how bad, will often find its way to these shores; last year, 75 movies from l’Hexagone were released theatrically — in other words, were given week-long runs — in the U.S.

Axelle Ropert is a french journalist, film critic, writer, and director. She wrote the films of Serge Bolzon, and has directed a short, a documentrary and three feature films. Her first film, La ...

“I was very struck by a quote by Fritz Lang, who said that ‘every film should criticize something,’ ” Axelle Ropert says. For the French filmmaker’s latest work “Petite Solange,” which world premiered ...

“I was very struck by a quote by Fritz Lang, who said that ‘every film should criticize something,’ ” Axelle Ropert says. For the French filmmaker’s latest work “Petite Solange,” a world premiere at ...