Tag Archives: Sergi López

Sirat review — Desert drama gets stuck in the sand

May 19, 2026 flawintheiris

Directed by Oliver Laxe | Written by Laxe and Santiago Fillol | 115 min | ▲▲ | VOD I try not to make a habit of quoting other film critics, but there's something Mark Kermode, who has a podcast called Kermode and Mayo's Take in the UK, said when describing Sirat, especially the last act,… Read More

Perfumes aka Les Parfums review — A rose by any other name

April 30, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Grégory Magne | 100 min | Carbon Arc Cinema A sweet, if slight, French dramedy about Anne Walberg (Emmanuelle Devos), who is a "nose" — she's a former perfume maker with a gifted schnoz — and Guillaume Favre (writer-director Magne), a chauffeur desperate to hang on to his job so he… Read More