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Actress Lily McInerny and costume designer Miyako Bellizzi talk about recasting one of Jean Seberg's most famous film roles.
The Director” uses the filmmaking career of G. W. Pabst to map the moral and artistic disintegration of Nazi-occupied Europe.
Bi Gan is certainly a stylist, and the film luxuriates in that, starting with a fabulous opening sequence that’s rather let ...
Zoey Deutch felt Jean Seberg's spirit helped on the set of Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague': It was "a wild story" ...
Watching "Nouvelle Vague," we don’t have to squint a bit to pretend that this is Jean-Luc Godard. It seems, rather, as if ...
At the beginning of “Bonjour Tristesse” – based on the 1954 novel previously adapted into a film in 1958 by Otto Preminger – Elsa (Nailia Harzoune) and her boyfriend, Raymond (Claes Bang) take in ...
But I chose not to watch the Preminger film until after we had wrapped so that I wouldn’t in any way try to imitate subconsciously Jean Seberg’s incredible performance. I can’t imagine watching that ...
Returning to Françoise Sagan's novel made famous by Otto Preminger’s 1958 movie, writer-director Durga Chew-Bose makes an assured if sometimes too talky debut.
Bonjour Tristesse comes with a history. Its source is a 1954 novel by French writer Françoise Sagan, a teenager at the time. In the story, a teenaged girl whose mother has died and is much attached to ...
Otto Preminger-directed adaptation and Durga Chew-Bose’s clever new spin on the story at hand. While remakes can feel, by their very nature, like the worst kind of retread (to say nothing of ...
The prior Otto Preminger-helmed movie may have amped up the drama, but there was no doubt as to the characters’ motivations nor disbelief at how the plot unfolded. Unfortunately, Ms. Chew-Bose seems ...
Directing an adaptation of an iconic book that has already been successfully adapted by the legendary Otto Preminger is an ambitious task for ... sensuality to the role that she has in many of the ...