The “Blue is the Warmest Color” director's latest film is problematic beyond showing a lot of young skin. As in “The Secret of the Grain,” this latest film also about very specific Franco-Tunisian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Late in “Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno,” two characters make plans for a quiet, home-cooked pasta dinner. Just tomatoes, basil and ...

Despite some warranted detractors targeting Abdellatif Kechiche’s male gaze in Blue in the Warmest Color, his romantic drama had no problems picking up the Palme d’Or back at Cannes a few years ago.

Palme d'Or winner Abdellatif Kechiche premiered his new film at Venice and is drawing criticism for extremely objectifying his female characters. Four years after winning the Palme d’Or in a unanimous ...

Amin, a young scriptwriter who has recently moved to Paris, heads down to his hometown on the Mediterranean for summer vacation. He spends his time at beaches and bars with childhood friends. One ...

This voyeuristic moment resonates with the filmmaker’s own almost obsessive need to expose without subtlety the details of sexual activity. A kind of voyeurism in which the gaze is emotionally ...

Though far from the best Abdellatif Kechiche movie, “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno” is certainly the most Abdellatif Kechiche movie. Running just over three hours, the film is the first in a planned ...

'Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno,' from French-Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche, is his first film after his Cannes Palme d'Or title 'Blue Is the Warmest Color.' By Boyd van Hoeij The long-awaited ...

A two-film adaptation of François Bégaudeau's novel "The Injury", released between 2017 and 2025, separated by an interlude screened at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, which has never been shown ...