By Ali Moosavi. I alternate between small films and bigger films with stars…. I have no strategy, I follow my instincts.” The French writer-director Francois Ozon is not just one of France’s best known and most lauded film makers, but also one of the busiest. His latest film, When Fall […]
Schrader, Almodóvar, I’m Still Here: 72nd San Sebastian International Film Festival
By Ali Moosavi. At my age, receiving such an award may be a sign that you have reached the end of the line and this is an appreciation for going on this journey that I have travelled for 44 years. But I don’t see it that way. I can’t imagine […]
Reflections on the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival
By Ali Moosavi. This year, the controversy was on a bigger scale….” It seems that the San Sebastian International Film Festival cannot go ahead without having some controversy. Last year it was the inclusion of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s Sparta, about a pedophile who travels from Austria to Romania and […]
“I think we killed off Jean-Luc Godard”: An Interview with Christophe Honoré
By Ali Moosavi. It is not that Jean-Luc Godard is better than Xavier Dolan. That is impossible to say, but their idea of cinema is not the same. Maybe the world today doesn’t need cinema anymore.” Christophe Honoré is a multi-talented French artist. He is a novelist, actor, director of […]