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Affluent Alma (Isabelle Huppert) meets working-class Mina (Hafsia Herzi) during visits to the prison facility where both of their husbands are serving time, and the two women quickly form a close connection—but can their bond survive the conflicting pressures of their circumstances?
Q&A with Patricia Mazuy on March 8
Two of France’s greatest working actresses—the legendary Isabelle Huppert and The Secret of the Grain star Hafsia Herzi—are paired in this moving drama from Patricia Mazuy. Affluent Alma (Huppert) meets working-class Mina (Herzi) during visits to the prison facility where both of their husbands are serving time. Despite their different backgrounds, the two women quickly form a close connection—but can their bond survive the conflicting pressures of their respective circumstances? Revered at home but sadly under-celebrated here, co-writer and director Patricia Mazuy has proven exceptionally adept at repurposing conventions of tone and genre to her own ends in films like the offbeat police-comedy-thriller Paul Sanchez Is Back! (Rendez-Vous 2019) and the grim neo-noir Saturn Bowling. With her new film, Mazuy once again demonstrates her mastery of tonal shifts and her steadfast refusal to be pigeonholed in this trenchant depiction of the French carceral system and the shaky relationships it engenders.
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FLC and NYAFF Announce Lineup and Awards of the 25th New York Asian Film Festival, July 10–26
The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) and Film at Lincoln Center today unveil the second wave of programming for its landmark 25th edition, adding more than 40 films to an already wide-ranging lineup, with very special final titles still to come.
Mark Jenkin and Mary Woodvine on Their Sci-Fi-Tinged Rose of Nevada
This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 63rd New York Film Festival with Rose of Nevada director Mark Jenkin and actress Mary Woodvine.
Experience 10 Films Entirely on 70mm at “It’s All a Big Conspiracy,” July 1–9 at Film at Lincoln Center
Exploring conspiracy across Hollywood genres, from espionage and sci-fi to superhero cinema, political biography, Shakespearean adaptation, crime drama, cult psychodrama, and the modern action blockbuster, the series includes the first New York City theatrical screening of Tim Burton’s Batman on 70mm since its original release in 1989.
