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Fabien Lemercier


9733 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 01/08/2025.

Review: Eat The Night

Review: Eat The Night

CANNES 2024: Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel launch into a bold and highly ambitious film about youth, the virtual and reality, but the piece as a whole doesn't quite live up to its promise  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: The Village Next to Paradise

Review: The Village Next to Paradise

CANNES 2024: Mo Harawe imposes his remarkable sense of framing on a touching and laconic tale illustrating the misfortunes and resilience of the Somali people  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Ce n'est qu'un au revoir

Review: Ce n'est qu'un au revoir

CANNES 2024: In this charming documentary, Guillaume Brac captures a snapshot of today's youth by filming the last days of high school for a group of boarding school kids  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | ACID

Review: Misericordia

Review: Misericordia

CANNES 2024: Alain Guiraudie crafts a delectable study of human nature, which falls midway between film noir and comedy in the micro-society of a remote village  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Cannes Première

Boris Lojkine • Director of Souleymane’s Story

Interview: Boris Lojkine • Director of Souleymane’s Story

"The idea of a delivery boy on a bicycle seemed to be an incredible cinematic tool for capturing the energy of someone who is always on the move"

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker talks about his intense new film, set in the wake of an illegal immigrant in Paris, and awaiting the verdict on his asylum application  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Laetitia Dosch • Director of Dog on Trial

Interview: Laetitia Dosch • Director of Dog on Trial

"You're always told that the stakes have to be clear, except that in life, it's never like that"

CANNES 2024: The Franco-Swiss filmmaker explains why she has embarked on a film that is totally out of the ordinary, but highly masterful in its quirky singularity  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Patricia Mazuy • Director of Visiting Hours

Interview: Patricia Mazuy • Director of Visiting Hours

"We’re not familiar with the world of visiting rooms, where women are together but all alone"

CANNES 2024: The French filmmaker unpicks her film exploring the feelings which unfold between a rich upper-class woman and a working-class woman whose husbands are both in prison  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Block Pass

Review: Block Pass

CANNES 2024: Antoine Chevrollier delivers a fine and dynamic first feature in the form of a coming-of-age story, set in a rural area of France which is rendered invisible or caricatured on screen  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: The Kingdom

Review: The Kingdom

CANNES 2024: Following in the wake of a teenage girl whose father is a Corsican mob boss under attack from his rivals, Julien Colonna’s first feature film is impressively tense and true to life  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Review: The Substance

Review: The Substance

CANNES 2024: Coralie Fargeat delivers a brutal, post-modernist and feminist version of the Faustian pact, bellowing upon the spirit of Cronenberg, Lynch, Kubrick and various others  

20/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Competition

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