Léa Seydoux tells me "it may be nicer to have eye contact." Though I was informed our interview would be audio-only––no complaints; time with the most exciting...
Though we're likely just two months from Arnaud Desplechin's next feature Spectateurs! (exclamation point his, but really mine as well) he's already mobilized ...
Second Update: Desplechin has begun filming Spectateurs with Mathieu Amalric, who returns as Paul Dedalus from My Sex Life and My Golden Days, and Françoise Le...
It is lonely being an Anglophone Arnaud Desplechin fan, let alone one based in the U.K. A strong cult generated in the aftermath of his '00s arthouse hits King...
It was just yesterday I remarked how Arnaud Desplechin's recent work has been severely overlooked here in America, naming his riveting Philip Roth adaption Dec...
Rarely have I been able to chart my relationship with a film like Arnaud Desplechin's Deception. When we spoke in fall 2015 he told me Philip Roth's slim, dial...
Few films in Cannes, competition or otherwise, have us excited like Arnaud Desplechin's Deception, the director's adaptation of Philip Roth's erotic, dialogue-...
Along with celebrating his 60th birthday during quarantine, Arnaud Desplechin has kept quite busy. Following up his crime procedural Oh Mercy! (still, sadly, w...
Every one of our conversations with Arnaud Desplechin eventually leads to Philip Roth. As far back as 2015 he told me of ambitions to adapt the author's 1990 n...
For fans of his highly idiosyncratic filmmaking, Oh Mercy! is a fascinating entry into Desplechin’s oeuvre for precisely all of the reasons that it deviates from the characteristics we’ve come to associate with him....
