Contributor Elena Lazic

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Interviews

Louis Garrel: ‘When you make an action scene, there’s this tendency to think, “Let’s do it like Heat or Scarface”’

by Elena Lazic

The French star discusses The Innocent, his fourth feature film as a director and a quintessentially French hybrid of romantic comedy and heist thriller.
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Interviews

Adrian Lyne: ‘I’ve always thought that acres of flesh is incredibly unsexy’

by Elena Lazic

The master of the erotic thriller talks Deep Water, his long absence, and working with Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.
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Review

Deep Water

by Elena Lazic

Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck play spouses engrossed in a twisted game of cat and mouse in director Adrian Lyne’s long-awaited return.

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In Retrospect
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Interviews

Franz Rogowski: ‘It was a gift to not have to explain it all through words’

by Elena Lazic

The beguiling star of Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom reflects on his career so far and the future of cinema.
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Review

The Beatles: Get Back

by Elena Lazic

Peter Jackson unearths and re-edits footage of the Beatles’ last hurrah, with euphoric and exasperating results.

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In Retrospect
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Review

Tick, Tick… Boom!

by Elena Lazic

Jonathan Larson’s celebrated stage musical gets the Lin-Manuel Miranda treatment – for better and for worse.

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Anticipation
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In Retrospect
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Review

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

by Elena Lazic

With her second feature, Hungarian writer/director Lili Horvát delivers a suspenseful elliptical thriller.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
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In Retrospect
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by Elena Lazic

Klassiki is launching on the back of a popular lockdown movie club.
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Review

Summer of ’85

by Elena Lazic

François Ozon turns back the clock for a sun-kissed gay love story that’s shot through with tragedy.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
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In Retrospect
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A journey to the past with François Ozon

by Elena Lazic

To celebrate the release of Summer of 85, we explore Ozon’s various heightened depictions of days gone by.
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Women In Film

Camille Keaton on the legacy of I Spit on Your Grave

by Elena Lazic

The actor reflects on her role in the controversial rape revenge classic from 1978.
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Interviews

Claire Oakley: ‘The whole film is about describing the feelings of this young woman’

by Elena Lazic

How a fascination with female desire inspired the first-time director of the excellent Make Up.

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