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Melodrama

Mathias is staying with his mother, Anna (Anne Kessler), in the apartment where he grew up, and chance intervenes again: walking through a…

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Arnaud Desplechin’s stirring melodrama “Two Pianos,” starring François Civil (“Beating…

One of the most lauded authors in the history of the Brazilian telenovela, Aguinaldo Silva is responsible for iconic works such as…

Minutes into “Two Pianos,” two former lovers unexpectedly run into each other in the narrow lobby of an venerable Lyon apartment building,…

“It’s a film by Pedro Almodóvar, but animated,” “Women Wearing Shoulder Pads” creator and director Gonzalo Cordova said during an Annecy…

There is a term for the sparsely populated swath of France that extends southwest from the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg to the…

Melodrama isn’t central to modern French cinema, because melodrama is rooted in irony, whereas one could hardly slip a playing card…

Flying high in one of the world’s most male-dominated film industries, Chinese writer-director Vivian Qu follows up her acclaimed 2017…