Tag: french science fiction
‘Extraction 2’ Has Wrapped Filming After 5 Months of Snowy Sets
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
GLAAD Media Awards Honors Hacks, Eternals, and More in 2022 Ceremony
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
French Film Director Claire Denis’ SF Film “High Life”
"Claire Denis reinvents and reorients the SF genre around bodies, babies, and black holes in her masterfully mystifying event-horizon nightmare."
"High Life" is a science fiction...
The Winners of the 2018 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France)
The winners of the 2018 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, honoring the best SF/F work published in France in 2017, have been announced:French NovelWINNER: "Toxoplasma",...
French SF Film “Dans la brume” (Just a Breath Away, 2018), directed by Daniel Roby
"Dans la brume" (In the Fog/international title: Just A Breath Away) is a French science fiction film directed by Daniel Roby."Well-directed and marked by a...
The Winner of the 2017 Albertine Prize
The Winner of the 2017 Albertine Prize is the novel "BARDO OR NOT BARDO" by Antoine Volodine (France).“Irreducible to any single literary genre, the...
“The 7th Function of Language” by Laurent Binet (France)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gl84kLcLoI"With this freewheeling fantasy about the death of the celebrated French critic, Binet delivers a second novel as erudite and engaging as his first....
French SF Writer Daniel Walther (1940-2018) : RIP !
Daniel Walther, born on March 10th, 1940 in Munster in Alsace, died on March 3rd , 2018 in Mulhouse, was one of the best French...
“Between Utopian Dreams And Totalitarian Nightmares” – Conference on Russian SF (France)
“Between Utopian Dreams And Totalitarian Nightmares” – Conference on Russian SF (France) by Natacha Vas-Deyres, specialist of literatures of the imaginary.A lecture at the...
2017 UTOPIALES SF ANTHOLOGY
THE OFFICIAL ANTHOLOGY OF THE UTOPIALES SF FESTIVAL GROUPING EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL AUTHORSAUDREY ALWETT, LIONEL DAVOUST, JEAN-LAURENT DEL SOCORRO, ESTELLE FAYE, GUY GAVRIEL KAY,...
2017 Prix Utopiales Winners
Winners of the Prix Utopiales were announced at the Nantes International Science Fiction Festival, known as the Utopiales Festival, held November 1-6, 2017 in...
The 2017 Uchronie Actusf Awards : the finalists
"Uchronia" refers to a hypothetical or fictional time-period of our world, in contrast to altogether fictional lands or worlds.
A concept similar to alternate history...
French Film Director Claire Denis’ Upcoming SF Film “High Life”
"It is a rare honor to work with Claire Denis. She has put together an incredible cast for what is not only her first...
Luc Besson’s SF Film “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”
"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" (French: "Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes") is a 2017 English-language French science fiction action...