Nicolas Rapold

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Nicolas Rapold

4 hours agoQuelle horreur! Ahead of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, the grande dame of cinematic showcases has done the unthinkable—it has banned what many consider to be its bread and butter: namely, naked dressing on the red carpet. The festival’s dress code for its evening gala screenings at the Grand …

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Nicolas Rapold

The actress's latest film, "Adam's Interest," will open the Critics' Week showcase at the Cannes Film Festival. Anamaria Vartolomei began her film career when she was 12 opposite Isabelle Huppert in a film about a controversial photographer and her daughter. And in the past few years, Vartolomei, now 26, has blazed through a slate so ambitious that it resembles one of Huppert's typically prolific runs - each film different from the last.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold

There are several versions of the myth of Parthenope. In one, she was a siren, who, heartbroken by her failure to seduce Ulysses, threw herself into the sea. After fishermen recovered her beautiful drowned body, they buried her, and the site of her interment grew into the city of Naples. In another, Parthenope was a mere mortal, in love with the centaur Vesuvius.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Winter

Zhao Tao embodies modern alienation as Qiao Qiao, an enigmatic figure drifting through time and space in contemporary China. 1 May 2025Certain actors hold our attention simply by the way they move through space. Zhao Tao never speaks in Caught by the Tides (2024), the latest film in her longrunning collaboration with her husband, the director Jia Zhangke.

2 weeks ago | bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Winter

Leonardo Van Dijl’s debut feature begins where Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) left off: on a tennis court, where a player mimes shots with an imaginary ball. This young woman is Julie, a rising star on the Belgian tennis circuit. Moments after we meet her, she’ll learn that her coach, Jeremy, has been suspended. The reasons for the suspension are opaque but, given that he’s been implicated in the suicide of his previous protégée, it’s natural that the club wants to speak to all its students.