Lisa Nesselson

Jun 26, 2024 | france24.com | Lisa Nesselson

We discuss "Kinds of Kindness", Yorgos Lanthimos' latest collaboration with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe. Film critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why the Greek director has set himself up as a hard act to follow after 2023's award-winning "Poor Things". We also take a look at a new documentary charting the life and music of American folk icon Joan Baez and discover the dark comedy at the heart of French film "Plastic Guns", which revisits a horrifying and unresolved true crime.

May 14, 2024 | screendaily.com | Lisa Nesselson

Directors Fortnight opens with the posthumous last work from Sophie Fillieres, starring a bittersweet Agnes Jaoui Source: (c) Christmas in July Dir/scr: Sophie Fillieres. France. 2024. 99mins A 50-something woman faces an existential crisis in This Life Of Mine, a bittersweet wisp of a film that acquires some heft only if one knows the circumstances of its fabrication — that celebrated writer/director Sophie Fillieres was terminally ill during its production.

May 14, 2024 | rogerebert.com | Lisa Nesselson

Festivals & Awards They're not kidding. The organization whose title translates as "Behind the Screen and Dead Broke" asserts that if their wages-recently slashed-are not upped to a living wage, there will be consequences. In France, people are free to protest. In Iran, protestors do so at their peril. Two days before the Festival the stunning announcement was made that top-flight Iranian director and Cannes competitor Mohammad Rasoulof had escaped from his country and gone into exile.

Apr 24, 2024 | france24.com | Lisa Nesselson

By Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news, including the Amy Winehouse biopic "Back to Black"; the release in France of the 1960s American independent film "Bushman", which explores one Nigerian immigrant's experience living in the US; and Israeli director Dani Rosenberg's second movie, "The Vanishing Soldier".

Mar 20, 2024 | france24.com | Lisa Nesselson

We discuss the success of "There's Still Tomorrow" from writer-director Paola Cortellesi, as her darkly comic début becomes a box office phenomenon in Italy. Meanwhile, "The Sweet East" sees cinematographer Sean Price Williams direct a strange journey through American subcultures. Critic Lisa Nesselson also tells us why Stéphane Brizé's new romance, starring Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher, is too slow for her taste.