Here’s the downside to having an Oscar shortlist: Completely sidelining great contenders so early in the season. One oversight by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music branch this year was the “sexy and dangerous” original score, as the pic’s composer Isabella Summers puts it, of Netflix’s feature take on D.H. Lawrence’s Lady … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: French network M6 has ordered a drama about a man who manipulates women and turns deception into an art form. The commission marks a debut series for Banijay France label Shine Fiction, which is co-producing Serial Lover with Amaury Fournial from Sibaro Films. Banijay Rights takes international sales. Written by Alice Den Broek and directed by … Read more
“My Donkey, My Lover & I” is yet another story about a woman who ventures out into the wild and finds herself. But to the writer and director Caroline Vignal’s credit, this low-key romantic French comedy proves friskier and more idiosyncratic than its reliance on this trope of feminist empowerment would suggest. For one, there’s … Read more