“The Way We Are Looked at Transforms Us”: An Interview with Catherine Breillat Savina Petkova January 2024 Interviews When Last Summer (2023) premiered at the Cannes Main Competition earlier this year, everyone expected a scandalous film. A massive age gap, incestuous themes, and, boy, does the internet love such discourse! Bu...
Searching for Eros: the 76th Cannes Film Festival Savina Petkova August 2023 Festival Reports For some, their first experience of attending the Cannes film festival is love at first sight: the slow-burning infatuation with the idea of sharing the same air across historical times in the same idyllic spac...
Human is only human when vulnerable: An Interview With Michel Franco Savina Petkova May 2022 Interviews In less than 20 years, writer-director Michel Franco has carved a niche for himself in the more austere parts of world cinema. The Mexican filmmaker has never shied away from representing thorny issues on scree...