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Fabien Lemercier


9740 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Achouackh Abakar  • Director of and actress in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

Interview: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Achouackh Abakar • Director of and actress in Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

"The film is about a woman bravely taking her destiny into her own hands, but also about a country where women help each other"

CANNES 2021: The Chadian director is back in the Palme d'Or competition with his new film, which follows a woman surmounting social and religious taboos  

13/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet  • Director of Anaïs in Love

Interview: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet • Director of Anaïs in Love

"It’s first and foremost a film about the power of desire"

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker speaks about her first feature film, a fast-paced, existentialist comedy of manners unveiled in Critics’ Week  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics' Week

Review: Peaceful

Review: Peaceful

CANNES 2021: Emmanuelle Bercot delivers a risky, powerful and poignant melodrama about a man played by Benoît Magimel on a journey towards unavoidable death  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Out of Competition

Review: Evolution

Review: Evolution

CANNES 2021: Kornél Mundruczó and screenwriter Kata Wéber deliver a formally and conceptually phenomenal, shocking work on the impact of the Holocaust through the generations  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Cannes Premiere

Hafsia Herzi  • Director of Good Mother

Interview: Hafsia Herzi • Director of Good Mother

“In this place where I grew up, great poverty reigns”

CANNES 2021: The French director discusses her second feature, a neorealist immersion into a Marseille family, unveiled in Un Certain Regard  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Vincent Maël Cardona  • Director of Magnetic Beats

Interview: Vincent Maël Cardona • Director of Magnetic Beats

"What we learned was that something quite strange was going on"

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker explains the genesis of his first feature film, unveiled in the Directors’ Fortnight  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Luana Bajrami  • Director of The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

Interview: Luana Bajrami • Director of The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

"My film paints the unknown picture of Kosovo"

CANNES 2021: The French-Kosovar actress discusses her first feature as a director, which follows a gang of likeable (and perfectly cast) girls  

12/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors' Fortnight

Review: Bergman Island

Review: Bergman Island

CANNES 2021: Mia Hansen-Løve elaborates a great oeuvre, a game of nested mirrors about couplehood, creativity, cinephilia and ghosts, in the summery setting of the Fårö island  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer

Review: Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer

CANNES 2021: Vincent Le Port makes a spectacular entry into the world of feature filmmaking with a dark and clinical film heir to Bresson and Haneke, about a criminal destiny  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Samuel Theis  • Director of Softie

Interview: Samuel Theis • Director of Softie

“This film is a child’s portrait, but most of all it is about the question of defecting from one’s class”

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker discusses his second feature, a very endearing, simple and subtle work presented in Critics’ Week  

11/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics' Week

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