“Succession” meets Brian De Palma in this delicious family-fortune thriller from France, directed by Sébastien Marnier. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

The Origin of Evil is practically two hours of Sébastien Marnier declaring that Brian De Palma is one of his favorite filmmakers. The French director works many of the psychological-thriller legend’s ...

If you traveled to Porquerolles, an island on the southernmost tip of the Côte d’Azur, a paradise of white beaches and so many trees that the French call the place a “floating forest,” and you were ...

The film opens with a female character played by Calamy. This woman is on the brink of financial disaster and works in a fish packing plant. She calls herself Stéphane when she has nowhere left to ...

A mysterious woman, down on her luck and working a miserable job at a tinned fish factory, makes contact with the extremely wealthy father she’s never met — and his suspicious heirs — in the French ...

Exclusive: Director Sebastien Marnier's film debuted at 2022 Venice Film Festival. Laure Calamy stars as an elusive family member in Sebastien Marnier’s satirical thriller “The Origin of Evil,” where ...

The advance buzz on “The Origin of Evil” included passing references to Agatha Christie, the “Knives Out” films, “Succession,” and intimations of comedic intent — the latter of which were likely due ...

If you traveled to Porquerolles, an island on the southernmost tip of the Côte d’Azur, a paradise of white beaches and so many trees that the French call the place a "floating forest," and you were ...