The 46th César Awards took place at L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix in Paris on Friday, February 25. The ceremony, France’s equivalent of the Academy Awards, honored the best in French cinema from 2021. The ...

UPDATE, writethru: Xavier Giannoli’s Lost Illusions (Illusions Perdues) scooped the Best Film prize at France’s César Awards this evening in Paris. Along with the top honor, the period drama adapted ...

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There is an intoxicating smugness to Xavier Giannoli’s new adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s “Illusions perdue,” as though this filmmaker couldn’t wait to shove this movie right in the faces of every ...

Winner of eight Cesar Awards and a Restoration-era “Wolf of Wall Street,” Xavier Giannoli’s “Lost Illusions” aka “Illusions perdues” is a classic bildungsroman about a young man from the province of ...

Benjamin Voisin ('Summer of '85') stars alongside Xavier Dolan and Gerard Depardieu in Xavier Giannoli's adapation of the classic Honore de Balzac novel. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Lost ...

Music Box has acquired Xavier Giannoli‘s “Lost Illusions,” a sprawling costume drama with Benjamin Voisin (“Summer of 85”) and Xavier Dolan (“Mommy”), that competed at the Venice Film Festival and ...

Rafael Motamayor is an entertainment writer and critic for sites like Collider, Observer, Rotten Tomatoes, /Film, IGN, and more. He specializes in writing about horror and animation, and yearns for ...

Ah, to be a critic! In this media-snarky world, it is reassuring that “Lost Illusions,” the great 19th Century European realist novel by Honoré de Balzac, was exceedingly prescient to our current age ...

Period drama has a bad name, especially period drama drawn from literary classics, but there is a European tradition of grand historical films that match their sources’ canonical status with the ...

In France, the names Rastignac and Rubempré serve as a kind of shorthand even today — two iconic characters who signify opposite sides of the same vice. Both prominent players in Honoré de Balzac’s ...