Jean-Jacques Annaud - Jeffrey Overstreet

Sign in Subscribe

Jean-Jacques Annaud

A collection of 5 posts

My conversations with Annaud and Schwartzberg

On Movies & Media

My conversations with Annaud and Schwartzberg

...the directors of Two Brothers and America's Heart and Soul, respectively, are now live for you to read and learn from. I’ve been scraping away at the hours for time to write reviews and edit this stuff, and I finally decided to post “almost-there” versions of the

Learning can save your life: My talk with Jean-Jacques Annaud

On Movies & Media

Learning can save your life: My talk with Jean-Jacques Annaud

This interview was originally published at Promontory Artists Association in 2004 upon the release of Jean-Jacques Annaud's film Two Brothers. With his new film Two Brothers, French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud has produced one of the year’s best family films. My review of the film is here. I

Two Brothers (2004)

On Movies & Media

Two Brothers (2004)

🧐2025 Update: This review and the Film Forum that follows it were first published at Christianity Today. There are at least ten good reasons to go see Two Brothers, especially if you take children along for the ride. It’s a delightful success thanks to … 1. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud. The

Two Brothers, two fine French filmmakers

On Movies & Media

Two Brothers, two fine French filmmakers

Last week I had the pleasure of chatting with director Patrice Leconte (Man on the Train) and found him to be one of the most affable, enthusiastic conversationists I’ve encountered among movie-folk. This morning I got up at 6AM to talk with Jean-Jacques Annaud, director of the new family-friendly

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

On Movies & Media

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

The good news is that Annaud finds room for fantastic, suspenseful sequences. The bad news is that he shoves in a love-triangle melodrama that feels forced and awkward.