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Intermedias Review

Memorial Archives and Ethical Seeing in Cédric Klapisch’s Colours of Time

November 5, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Cédric Klapisch’s Colours of Time is an elegant, intergenerational tale that treats memory as both archive and encounter. The…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Branding the Underdog: How Challenger Boxes the Algorithm

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by Hudson Moura Varante Soudjian’s Challenger is a breezy, good-natured crowd-pleaser that marries working-class aspiration with the slapstick volatility of viral fame.…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Le Routard (The Rookie Guide): Postcards, Pranks, and a Low-Stakes Caper

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by Hudson Moura Philippe Mechelen’s The Rookie Guide (Le Routard) turns the famed travel brand into a buoyant meta-comedy: Yan Tatin (a…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Between Saving and Selling: Vultures and the Ethical Blind Spot of True-Crime

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by Hudson Moura Peter Dourountzis’s Vultures (Rapaces) descends into a France where organized, paramilitary rape-gangs terrorize cities and where the…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

The Quiet Son: Love, Denial, and the Drift into Violence

November 4, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Adapted from Laurent Petitmangin’s Ce qu’il faut de nuit, Delphine et Muriel Coulin’s The Quiet Son reframes a familiar social…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Processing Climate Despair from Within: Anne Émond’s Peak Everything

November 3, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Throughout Peak Everything (Amour Apocalypse) Anne Émond saturates the narrative with what we could call an immanent critique of wellness:…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, Hudson Moura, Quebec Cinema

Rewriting Reality One Joke at a Time: Émile Gaudreault’s Menteuse

November 2, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura With Menteuse, Émile Gaudreault returns to the comic universe he knows best: ordinary Québécois characters whose small, everyday…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, Hudson Moura, Quebec Cinema

Love Is Overrated: Mourad Winter’s Dramedy of Delayed Adulthood

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by Hudson Moura Mourad Winter’s Love Is Overrated is less a film about love than a film about the inability to enter reality.…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Choosing the Road, Not the Exit: We Will Go (Bon voyage, Marie) by Enya Baroux

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by Hudson Moura Enya Baroux’s We Will Go (also circulating in French as On Ira/Bon voyage, Marie) is a small, disarming film that…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, French Cinema, Hudson Moura

Rebuilding After the Blast: Et Maintenant? by Jocelyn Forgues

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by Hudson Moura Jacelyn Forgues’ Et Maintenant is a cancer film that refuses to be only a cancer film. On le papier,…

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Posted in: Film Festival, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: CinéFranco, Franco-Ontarien Cinema, Hudson Moura

When Nightmares Take the Call: Style Up, Scares Down in Black Phone 2

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by Hudson Moura Scott Derrickson’s Black Phone 2 pivots the franchise from basement horror to oneiric fantasia. After a brief prologue…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Hollywood, Horror, Hudson Moura

SPRINGSTEEN: Deliver Me from Nowhere — The Album’s Aura, Not Its Anatomy

October 23, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Scott Cooper’s SPRINGSTEEN: Deliver Me from Nowhere sets itself a clean, compelling brief: track the making of…

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Posted in: Film Review, Hollywood Filed under: Biopic, Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Empty Cradle: The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

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by Hudson Moura Michelle Garza Cervera’s reworking of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle aims to refit the early-’90s domestic thriller to…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Rigged Jolts, Shaky Ethics: “Dream Eater” in the Festival-to-Viral Pipeline

October 17, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura A micro-budget Canadian “found-footage” horror shot in nine days, Dream Eater took on a second life after festival play…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Horror, Hudson Moura

Sisu: White-Knuckle Mythmaking

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by Hudson Moura Helander opens with a definition card—“Sisu is a Finnish word that cannot be translated… a white-knuckle form of…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Adventure, Finland, Horror, Hudson Moura, Nazis, War

Circuits Without Sparks: Tron: Ares

October 9, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Tron: Ares returns to the franchise’s neon metaphysics with a premise that ought to feel timely: a world…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Hudson Moura

Premium Streaming Cinema: The Lost Bus (Apple TV) + Play Dirty (Amazon Prime Video)

October 4, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura The conversation about “straight-to-streaming” releases is no longer about dumping weak titles, rather it’s about calibrating audience,…

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Posted in: Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Streaming Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Curtain Calls and Continuities: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

October 3, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale leans into what has made the franchise singular: an impeccably produced British period…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Hudson Moura

Wrong Place, Thin Plot, Right Tempo: Caught Stealing by Darren Aronofsky

September 30, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura Darren Aronofsky’s first post-The Whale pivot is a full-throttle genre swerve: a bruised, breathless caper-thriller set in 1990s…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque Filed under: Comedy, Crime, Hollywood, Hudson Moura, Thriller

From Uprising to Manhunt: “Free Borders, Free Bodies” and the Political Drift of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

September 29, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura “Free borders, free bodies, free choices, free fucking fear!” Perfidia (Teyana Taylor) spits at Col. Steven J.…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: Hollywood, Hudson Moura

Refuge and Ruse: Ego’s Underwritten Romance in French Lover

September 28, 2025 hudmoura

by Hudson Moura French Lover frames the film set as a fairy-tale enclave—à la Notting Hill—where cinema becomes both refuge and ruse.…

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Posted in: Cinema, Film Review, Radio Canada - Dans la Mosaïque, Review Filed under: French Cinema, Hudson Moura

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