Back at New Directors/New Films in 2019, I was struck by Philippe Lesage's deeply moving, boldly structured coming-of-age tale Genesis, ultimately naming it on...
After his revelatory coming-of-age film Genesis, Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage has expanded his canvas with Who by Fire, a lush, intimate, and psychologi...
You’d expect the pivotal music cue in Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire to be its namesake by Leonard Cohen, a beautiful and plaintive prayer of a song. But instea...
