Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Gets Warm Embrace During Venice Film Festival Debut

Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Gets Warm Embrace During Venice Film Festival Debut

The Venice Film Festival set the table for Jim Jarmusch‘s Father Mother Sister Brother by delivering the Mubi title’s world premiere on the Lido Sunday night. The filmmaker joined his stars Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Vicky Krieps, Mayim Bialik, Luka Sabbat and Indya Moore for the red carpet festivities at Sala Grande with only Adam…

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‘Yakushima’s Illusion’: Naomi Kawase, Vicky Krieps on Exploring Human Connections and Heart

‘Yakushima’s Illusion’: Naomi Kawase, Vicky Krieps on Exploring Human Connections and Heart

When the Locarno Film Festival at the end of July unveiled director Naomi Kawase’s (Embracing, The Mourning Forest) new film Yakushima’s Illusion (L’Illusion de Yakushima), starring none other than Vicky Krieps (Corsage, The Dead Don’t Hurt, Hot Milk), as a late addition to its competition lineup, it was considered a surprise and a coup. Not much was known…

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Peter Sarsgaard Gets Political as Karlovy Vary Opens: “The Enemies Are the Forces That Divide Us”

Peter Sarsgaard Gets Political as Karlovy Vary Opens: “The Enemies Are the Forces That Divide Us”

Politics seems to be everywhere and everything these days, and Friday evening’s opening ceremony for the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic got a dose of it as honorees Peter Sarsgaard and Vicky Krieps used their acceptance speeches for comments on the United States’ role in the world and…

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‘Love Me Tender’ Review: Vicky Krieps Anchors a Hard-Hitting Chronicle of Motherhood and Sexual Freedom That Overstays Its Welcome

‘Love Me Tender’ Review: Vicky Krieps Anchors a Hard-Hitting Chronicle of Motherhood and Sexual Freedom That Overstays Its Welcome

If there are two things you can say about art house ingenue Vicky Krieps, it’s that she’s the most internationally famous actor to ever emerge from the tiny European nation of Luxembourg, and that she rarely takes on roles that could be considered easy or light.   After breaking out in Phantom Thread, starring as…

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#AI Trained in Werner Herzog’s Works Wrote Murder Mystery Doc ‘About a Hero,’ Starring Vicky Krieps

#AI Trained in Werner Herzog’s Works Wrote Murder Mystery Doc ‘About a Hero,’ Starring Vicky Krieps

Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate the death after a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances in Piotr Winiewicz’s feature film debut About a Hero. Vicky Krieps also stars, and Stephen Fry appears. “But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect…,”…

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#‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: Vicky Krieps Electrifies in Viggo Mortensen’s Stirring Romantic Western

#‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: Vicky Krieps Electrifies in Viggo Mortensen’s Stirring Romantic Western

Viggo Mortensen may be riding tall in the saddle, but co-star Vicky Krieps is the true central figure of the revisionist Western marking the actor’s sophomore effort as director-screenwriter after 2020’s Falling. Making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Dead Don’t Hurt features many classic attributes of the venerable genre, including…

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#‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ Review: Vicky Krieps Electrifies in Viggo Mortensen’s Stirring Romantic Western

#Toronto: Viggo Mortensen Talks Hollywood Strikes, Directing Vicky Krieps in Feminist Western ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’

Viggo Mortensen’s second feature as a director, the Western The Dead Don’t Hurt, is dedicated to his late mother, Grace Gamble Atkinson, who poetically lives on somewhat in the film’s lead character, the fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy, played by Vicky Krieps. “Vivienne, she’s no wonder woman. But she’s very strong, has an inner strength,…

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