Anne Fontaine

With the U.S. film world’s most high-profile and most snow-blanketed event behind us, it's time for some score-carding. Which movies won big and which missed their moment at the Sundance Film Festival? Which trends took hold and which will be gone...

Not that long ago, premiering a star-driven Sundance Film Festival movie on a video-on-demand channel was an admission of failure. But last year's festival produced two huge on-demand hits, Richard Gere's crime drama "Arbitrage" and Kirsten Dunst's...

PARK CITY, Utah—Writer Doris Lessing was 92 years old when French filmmaker Anne Fontaine met her last year, and she made quite an impression. "She's wild," Fontaine says. "She has a look I'd never seen before: eyes that go into your head, like...

PARK CITY, Utah — Writer-director Anne Fontaine’s “Two Mothers” is adapted from the Doris Lessing novella “Two Grandmothers,” but if you believe this Sundance Film Festival movie is a story about women of a certain...

The Sundance Film Festival can seem like a most indecipherable hybrid: It’s a movie-industry gathering, a wannabe Mardi Gras, a celebrity pit stop. It's also, of course, a place where some of the most memorable films of our time began their...