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Fabien Lemercier


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

Review: Benedetta

Review: Benedetta

CANNES 2021: Religion, power, manipulation, miracles and stigmata, truths and falsehoods are all on the ambiguous, intelligent, black humour-filled agenda of Paul Verhoeven’s excellent film  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Softie

Review: Softie

CANNES 2021: Returning to Forbach after Party Girl, Samuel Theis signs a very endearing, simple and subtle piece of work, on the awakening of a boy from a modest background towards new horizons  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

Review: Lingui, The Sacred Bonds

CANNES 2021: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun delivers a luminous work about a mother whose love for her daughter causes her to change course and to set about surmounting social and religious taboos  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Competition

Review: Olga

Review: Olga

CANNES 2021: Gymnastics and Ukrainian revolution for the teenage champion at the heart of the first feature from Elie Grappe, which explores the contrasting facets of total devotion  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics’ Week

Emmanuel Carrère  • Director of Between Two Worlds

Interview: Emmanuel Carrère • Director of Between Two Worlds

“The film has a social aspect, but also a hitchcockian element”

CANNES 2021: The famous novelist once again turned filmmaker decrypts his free adaptation of the book by Florence Aubenas, which opened the Directors’ Fortnight  

09/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Playground

Review: Playground

CANNES 2021: Filmed from a child’s perspective, Laura Wandel’s first feature is a moving, subtle yet incisive tale which impresses for its intense depiction of bullying at school  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

Review: The Hill Where Lionesses Roar

CANNES 2021: Luàna Bajrami delivers a fine first feature, fresh and full of punch, about three girls who metamorphose into a pack of thieves in order to escape the destiny already drawn out for them  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Directors’ Fortnight

Constance Meyer  • Director of Robust

Interview: Constance Meyer • Director of Robust

“I wanted to film these two bodies and tell the solitude of these two characters”

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker discusses her first feature, presented in opening of the 60th Critics’ Week  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Critics' Week

Arthur Harari  • Director of Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Interview: Arthur Harari • Director of Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

"I wanted to make a film that was bigger than me, that was beyond me"

CANNES 2021: The French filmmaker explains the genesis of his extraordinary second feature, which was presented in the opening slot of the Un Certain Regard section  

08/07/2021 | Cannes 2021 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Review: Onoda – 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

CANNES 2021: Arthur Harari delivers a breath-taking movie, in the tradition of the greatest classic films, depicting the 10,000 nights spent in the jungle by a Japanese fighter forgotten on an island  

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

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