Few films in Cannes, competition or otherwise, have us excited like Arnaud Desplechin's Deception, the director's adaptation of Philip Roth's erotic, dialogue-...
Along with celebrating his 60th birthday during quarantine, Arnaud Desplechin has kept quite busy. Following up his crime procedural Oh Mercy! (still, sadly, w...
Every one of our conversations with Arnaud Desplechin eventually leads to Philip Roth. As far back as 2015 he told me of ambitions to adapt the author's 1990 n...
For fans of his highly idiosyncratic filmmaking, Oh Mercy! is a fascinating entry into Desplechin’s oeuvre for precisely all of the reasons that it deviates from the characteristics we’ve come to associate with him....
When a filmmaker is well-known for reiterating certain narratives or themes, perhaps even having a specific character reappear to embody such ideas, unfamiliar ...
Following the announcements that Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, and Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn would occupy the ga...
The 72nd Cannes Film Festival will get underway next month and today Thierry Frémaux has unveiled the lineup. Some festival alums will return, including Ter...
In the age-old divide (perhaps most evident in the United States) between film production and criticism, crossed by certain pioneers yet often left unbridged, i...
With an alumni roster including the likes of Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, Claire Denis, Arnaud Desplechin, Theo Angelopoulos, and Andrzej Żuławski, the film ...
