"Petit Freres," also written by Doillon, is the kind of hard-edged, life-on-the-streets film we associate with American movies. There's lots of talk of "gats" and some hard French rap underscoring ...
Léonor Serraille’s film Mother and Son contains moving strokes, but struggles to make a lasting emotional dent. The director of the 2017 Camera d’or winner Montparnasse Bienvenue returns to Cannes ...
À l’époque, Jacques Chirac est maire de Paris et les avions d’Air Inter sillonnent les cieux de l’Hexagone. Discrets marqueurs d’un film à la grande ampleur historique. Rose, avec son fils Jean, 11 ...
Sort of a Parisian "Boyz in the Hood," director Jacques Doillon's "Petite Freres" (aka "Little Brothers") is a gritty, no-nonsense film about a 12-year-old girl who clings to her beloved dog and, ...
Léonor Serraille's second feature is a sweeping portrait of an Ivorian mother building a life with her two sons in France. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic It doesn’t start that way, though.