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Fabien Lemercier


9753 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 08/09/2025.

Bertrand Bonello  • Director of Zombi Child

Interview: Bertrand Bonello • Director of Zombi Child

"Films are also made for communicating with spirits"

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello explains the thinking behind Zombi Child which was unveiled in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Wild Goose Lake

Review: The Wild Goose Lake

CANNES 2019: Co-produced by France, the new film noir by Chinese director Diao Yinan, who triumphed at the Berlinale 2014 with Black Coal, Thin Ice, is a work of stunning virtuosity  

19/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Alice and the Mayor

Review: Alice and the Mayor

CANNES 2019: Nicolas Pariser delivers a very clever and quirky political comedy, with brilliant performances from Fabrice Luchini and Anaïs Demoustier  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Jessica Hausner • Director of Little Joe

Interview: Jessica Hausner • Director of Little Joe

“I try to describe the ambiguity of the way we perceive reality”

CANNES 2019: Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner tells us about her English-language film Little Joe, unveiled in competition in Cannes  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Mati Diop • Director of Atlantics

Interview: Mati Diop • Director of Atlantics

"My films draw inspiration from the absence of boundaries"

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Mati Diop talks to us about her first feature film Atlantics, unveiled in competition in Cannes  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Little Joe

Review: Little Joe

CANNES 2019: Austria’s Jessica Hausner puts her name to a hugely cerebral psychoanalytical film with a societal focus, flirting with the genre of sci-fi chiller and the world of genetic mutations  

18/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Competition

Review: Oleg

Review: Oleg

CANNES 2019: Latvia's Juris Kursietis delivers a gritty and ultra-realist film on a form of modern slavery taking place behind the scenes between Eastern European posted workers  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Directors’ Fortnight

Aude Léa Rapin • Director of Heroes Don’t Die

Interview: Aude Léa Rapin • Director of Heroes Don’t Die

“Everything happened quickly, which allowed us to remain in a process of adventure”

CANNES 2019: French filmmaker Aude Léa Rapin tells us about her surprising feature debut, Heroes Don’t Die, discovered in Critics’ Week in Cannes  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week

Review: Papicha

Review: Papicha

CANNES 2019: With her first feature, Mounia Meddour revisits the dark hours of the dirty war in Algiers, following a very determined young woman who longs for freedom  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Un Certain Regard

Review: I Lost My Body

Review: I Lost My Body

CANNES 2019: Animation sends sparks flying on the Croisette with the feature debut from French director Jérémy Clapin, a moving, inventive, and prodigious gem of storytelling  

17/05/2019 | Cannes 2019 | Critics’ Week

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