Noémie Merlant
The French actress is breaking into Hollywood the same way she stormed Paris from the provinces
Mexico, According to Graciela Iturbide
“In a way, I really see the world in black and white”: an interview with the photographer, whose shots of Mexico and its diaspora go on show at Paris’s Fondation Cartier
The Newest Trick Is the Book
Hugo Hamilton’s latest is narrated by an unusual protagonist: a novel
Virginie Efira
The Belgian actress gives a rattling performance as a manipulative nun in Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta
Paula Beer
The Berlin Film Festival darling who eschewed drama school for the real thing
The Real Congo
Artcurial Paris’s spring auction focuses on the artists of Congo’s Le Hangar collective, founders of contemporary African art who developed their craft away from Western influence
Remember When?
An interview with French playwright Florian Zeller, who makes his filmmaking debut with The Father, a moving story of dementia starring Anthony Hopkins
O Comrade, My Comrade!
This year’s Russian entry to the Oscars dramatizes a Soviet-era industrial-workers’ strike turned infamous massacre
Behind The Painted Bird
The contentious Holocaust author Jerzy Kosiński turned down every offer for a film adaptation. A Czech filmmaker finally takes on the story
Local Time
The fate of Brazil’s indigenous Yanomami, chronicled for years by photographer Claudia Andujar, rests largely in the hands of the country’s rash, racist president
France’s New Victor Hugo
The country’s Oscar entry takes on class and race in the streets of Paris