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Fabien Lemercier


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

A record 272 features produced in 2011

In 2005, when French film production reached 240 features, professionals talked about overheating. But the trend hasn’t been reversed and since then, records have been broken year after year....  

19/01/2012 | Production | France

Dupieux’s Wrong in competition at Sundance

"A crazy visionary of enormous talent who delightfully refuses to play by the rules”: the programme for the Sundance Film Festival, which opens today, is full of extravagant praise for French...  

19/01/2012 | Sundance 2012 | France

Old age takes centre stage in And If We All Lived Together

While this Wednesday marks the accomplished directorial debut of novelist Frédéric Beigbeder with the irony-fuelled romantic comedy Love Lasts Three Years (see news - EuropaCorp Distribution in...  

18/01/2012 | Releases | France

Green light for Szász’s The Notebook, based on Kristóf novel

After the good news that Benedek Fliegauf’s Just The Wind has been selected in competition at the upcoming Berlinale (see news), the Hungarian film industry has shown another sign of resurging...  

17/01/2012 | Funding | Hungary

Marceau confesses to murder in Lilienfeld’s Arrêtez-Moi

Next Monday, shooting will start on Jean-Paul Lilienfeld’s fifth feature, the thriller Arrêtez-Moi (“Arrest Me”). After Skirt Day, which was unveiled in the Berlinale Panorama 2009 and earned...  

17/01/2012 | Production | France

Surprise win for Omar Sy at Lumière Awards

While Best Film of the Year was awarded on Friday evening at the 17th Lumière Awards (awarded, rather like the Golden Globes, to the best artists of French and Francophone cinema by foreign...  

16/01/2012 | Awards | France

The Artist crowned Best Comedy, Jean Dujardin Best Actor

There was a historic triple win for a French film yesterday evening at the 69th Golden Globes awarded by the foreign press working in Hollywood. The most accoladed movie of the evening, Michel...  

16/01/2012 | Golden Globes 2012 | France

The Artist crowned Best Film by American critics

Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist won the tile of Best Film at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, the awards conferred yearly by American and Canadian film critics. The French black and white silent...  

13/01/2012 | Awards | France

Europe and the US, lands of welcome for French cinema

Accounting for 87.4% of foreign admissions for French films in 2011, Europe and North America remain the most important continents for French production according to estimated figures revealed by...  

13/01/2012 | Exports | France

French films garner 65.7m admissions and €405m in takings abroad in 2011

There were mixed results for audience figures for French films in foreign theatres in 2011 according to estimated figures revealed by UniFrance (news). Admissions were up by 10% compared to 2010...  

13/01/2012 | Exports | France

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