Movies: Vladimir Léon

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature....

...

Elegantly and carefully, Léon trains his sights both on Chekhov’s famous play written in 1896 and on its earlier, lesser known version entitled "The Wood Demon" (1889), combining the two....

Writer Mathieu Riboulet read an excerpt from his work "Le Regard de la source" at home. In this passage emerges a portrait of a woman "neither a close friend nor a relative, but certainly a little like one and a little like the other": Nina. The word...

From Mexico to Russia, from Germany to India, director Vladimir Léon goes in search of a revolutionary adventurer from Bengal: M. N. Roy. Founder of a communist party in Zapata's Mexico, leader of the Communist International in Soviet Russia alongsid...

Seraphin arrives in a small station of the Pyrénées-Orientales to walt to Port-Bou, in Spain. It is a question of going, through mountains, Walter Benjamin's route, Jewish philosopher who tried to cross the border in 1940, but who committed suicide a...

...