
Lucile Emina Hadžihalilović is a French writer and director associated with the “New French Extremity” movement. She worked for several years as an editor, often collaborating with director Gaspar Noé, who is her husband. In 2004 she became the first woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival’s annual Bronze Horse award for best film.
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Filmmaker Lucile Hadzilalilovic, winner of the Silver Bear at the 2025 Berlinale for “The Tower of Ice”, delves into her world of hauntingly beautiful tales. From “Innocence” to her latest film, she crafts stories rich in mystery, where powerful women and enigmatic youth evoke the legacy of Argento-style genre cinema.

The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Esther and André are a part of a group of young people. They go to the cinema and speak about it often. They love each other from time to time; the group eventually comes undone. Jean is in fact the only true cinema enthusiast. Coming back from the cinema, he watches TV and thinks that, certainly, the cinema is buried well and truly.

Continuation of the essay on the cinema of Louis Skorecki through the relations of some young cinephiles.
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