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Emmanuelle Devos joins Alice Winocour, Charlotte Le Bon, and Berenice Béjo on Michel Hazanavicius's Deauville Festival of American Cinema jury Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Emmanuelle Devos has had a special relationship with Arnaud Desplechin from her first film, La Vie Des Morts, with him as writer/director, on to La Sentinelle (a CinéSalon tribute to Caroline Champetier), My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument, Esther Kahn, Kings & Queen (Rois & Reine), and A Christmas Tale (Un Conte De Noël).

I met with Emmanuelle Devos at the French Institute Alliance Française (CinéSalon's Enigmatic Emmanuelle Devos) in New York for a conversation on Frédéric Mermoud's Moka, based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay in which she stars opposite Nathalie Baye with David Clavel, Olivier Chantreau, Diane Rouxel, and Samuel Labarthe.

Emmanuelle Devos on her first director Arnaud Desplechin: "Our relationship is really so intimate, so special …" Photo:...

Footnotes (Sur quel pied danser) Monument Releasing Director: Paul Calori, Kostia Tesut Written by: Paul Calori, Kostia Testut Cast: Pauline Etienne, Olivier Chantreau, François Morel, Loïc Corbery Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 7/5/17 Opens: July 14, 2017 If you live in New York or plan to visit the Apple, you’re probably going to see “Phantom […]

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Emmanuelle Devos on Frédéric Mermoud's Moka based on the novel by Tatiana de Rosnay: "The landscape does have an effect on your acting." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Moka star Emmanuelle Devos at the start of our conversation at the French Institute Alliance Française, mentioned seeing Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon in Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes and Laurie Metcalf and Chris Cooper in Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 on Broadway. She has a long history with her first director, Arnaud Desplechin (My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument, Esther Kahn, A Christmas Tale, Kings & Queen), who also directed her son Raphaël Cohen in My Golden Days. Desplechin and Mathieu Amalric regular Grégoire Hetzel is Moka's co-composer. Emmanuelle and I had spoken at the Tribeca Film Festival with Jérôme Bonnell for his Le Temps De L'Aventure (Just A Sigh).

Marlène (Nathalie Baye) with Diane (Emmanuelle Devos...

Mubi is spotlighting debutante French director Rachel Lang. On November 30 and December 1, respectively, we'll be exclusively showing her two short films, For You I Will Fight (2010), White Turnips Make It Hard to Sleep (2011), leading up to the exclusive online premiere of her feature debut, Baden Baden (2015), which runs December 2 - 31 2016 in the United States.Baden Baden“The female thyme plant gets rid of half her chromosomes to host the male chromosomes.”—Ana, White Turnips Make It Hard to SleepWomen give generously, as illustrated by the reproductive system of an aromatic herb, hosting others who might not survive, would otherwise languish. The quote comes courtesy of Rachel Lang's second short film and is applicable to her nascent body of work, two shorts and one feature wherein: a young woman joins the army; another breaks up with her boyfriend; a third attempts to fix a bathtub. All are named Ana...