dog at a disco

Adèle Haenel leaving the Cesar2020 after Roman Polanski’s win for Best Directing.

“Bravo la pédophilie.” - Adèle Haenel after the Cesars2020 awarded Roman Polanski. Adèle herself is a survivor of child abuse.

The Duke of Burgundy (2014). Dir. Peter Strickland, starring Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D’Anna

The Ash Tree (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1975)

Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)

Les parapluies de Cherbourg (a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (Jacques Demy, 1964)

After her boyfriend dumps her Paula is effectively made homeless. With no family and few friends she ping-pongs around Paris with only her cat for company.

WINTER LIGHT (1963) Nattvardsgästerna dir. Ingmar Bergman

I think that’s where a lot of interest is from the nation, that’s she’s very young. And yet we’re claiming - I’ll use that term - that she’s a witch. What if she’s actually just but a child? I Am Not a Witch (2017) Rungano Nyoni

directed by Rungano Nyoni cinematography by David Gallego

‘Trois Couleurs : Bleu’ (Three Colours: Blue), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1993) Now I have only one thing left to do: nothing. I don’t want any belongings, any memories. No friends, no love. Those are all traps.