By Yun-hua Chen. [Blending of genres] was a desire of mine to surprise the viewer, so that the audience does not settle into something and know what’s going to happen.” Director Laurent Larivière’s second feature À Propos de Joan, premiered at the Berlinale Special Gala, is a French, German and […]
Gaggle of Spies: Jean-Louis Roy’s The Unknown Man of Shandigor (Deaf Crocodile Films)
By Thomas Puhr. Contemporary audiences will hear Roy’s sardonic message loud and clear. Whether they’ll laugh or cry (or both) is a matter of taste.: “Swiss director Jean-Louis Roy’s long-lost mid-1960s Cold War super-spy thriller is a marvelous and surreal hall of mirrors, part-Dr. Strangelove, part-Alphaville,” reads the press release […]