Based on the 1848 novel, La dame aux camélias, by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Mauro Bolognini’s La storia vera della signora dalle camelie (The Lady of the Camelias, 1981) is one of those unusual productions that brought together a number of ...

Happy New Year from the team at Diabolique Magazine! 2016 has been a crazy ride with a fair amount of ups and downs in the world of cinema. We lost an abundance of talent this year but we were also ...

Director Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest offering, L’avenir (2016) aka Things to Come, essentially revolves around Rousseau’s maxim, “If happiness fails to come, hope persists.” Rousseau — and philosophy in general — plays a big part in the film, as it follows ...

Over the last few decades, but especially since her role as a masochistic music teacher in Michael Haneke’s La pianiste (2001) aka The Piano Teacher, petite powerhouse Isabelle Huppert has proven herself to be one of the giants of contemporary ...

Debates concerning filmmakers’ “intent” are a pastime that voyeurs both professionally and recreationally critical will, as long as films keep being made, continue to engage in. Like it or not, auteurism is here to stay, and while close reading a ...