Writer. Editor. Film Scholar. Script Consultant
I'm honoured to have been asked to take part in the 'Mean Girls: Claude Chabrol’s dangerous women' panel alongside the brilliant Prano Bailey-Bond and Catherine Wheatley. The event is on 23rd September and is part of the BFI Southbank season Claude Chabrol – Elements of Crime, curated by Catherine Wheatley, which runs from 1st September... Continue Reading →
The delirious adventures of a queer criminal as seen by Yukio Mishima and Kinji Fukasaku screens at the Etrange Festival in Paris on 13 September 2017. Footsteps echo in the dark. A hand knocks on a door. A flap is lifted, a pair of eyes peeks out, the door opens. Footsteps lead down a corridor... Continue Reading →
Against the depressing backdrop of a French cinema determined to be as glossy and brain-dead as Hollywood, 13 (Tzameti), the 2006 first feature by young French-educated Georgian director Gela Babluani, still stands out two years later as one of the most exciting lo-fi black and white Gallic debuts since Luc Besson’s Le dernier combat. In... Continue Reading →
Virginie Sélavy 