Tag: philippefalardeau

The air is t'ick with accents in a new, NSFW clip from Venice-bound The Bleeder, but things quickly get deadly serious when the wife sits down. The movie revolves around Chuck Wepner, a professional boxer whose biggest claim to fame...

An unlikely thematic companion piece to Wes Anderson's idiosyncratically wonderful MOONRISE KINGDOM, Canada's French language MONSIEUR LAZHAR explores the cause and effects of the adult world's over-institutionalizing of children's lives. LAZHAR may be far more grounded and sobering than...

I'm not sure it can be overstated just how badly MONSIEUR LAZHAR, directed by Philippe Falardeau, could have failed in the wrong hands. The story of a North African immigrant (Mohamed Fellag) who comes to a Montreal school to...