EXCLUSIVE: Unknown Pleasures Pictures, the Chinese distribution company founded by filmmaker Jia Zhangke and veteran ...

Marine Atlan’s debut film follows a group of French high-school kids and their long-suffering teacher on a visit to Pompeii and Naples ...

Cannes: Mercifully free of typical high school movie tropes, the teenagers at the heart of Marine Atlan’s film are fully realized people, allowing this stunning work to reach toward the sublime. The ...

Marine Atlan's “La Gradiva” claimed the top honor at the 65th edition of Critics Week, winning the Ami Paris Grand Prize, while Aina Clotet’s “Alive” won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star ...

A major work played in a minor key, cinematographer-turned-director Marine Atlan's magnificent, melancholic and moving feature directorial debut "La Gradiva" is one of those true discoveries that you ...

Marine Atlan's La Gradiva is competing in Critics' Week sidebar at Cannes Film Festival 2026. Chronicling a school trip, the alluring, devastating drama maps new, volatile landscapes onto adolescent ...

Cinematographer turned director Marine Atlan’s first feature, which won Cannes Critics’ Week prize, follows a class of high school seniors on a school trip to Naples. By Jordan Mintzer Out of all the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cinematographer Marine Atlan’s feature film directorial debut “La Gradiva” takes a simple premise — teenagers on a class trip — ...

A major work played in a minor key, cinematographer-turned-director Marine Atlan’s magnificent, melancholic and moving feature directorial debut “La Gradiva” is one of those true discoveries that you ...