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Fabien Lemercier


9728 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 25/07/2025.

Sentimental drama meets political backstage in The Conquest

"With this damned transparency, you can’t even deny reality”: words that could sum up Xavier Durringer’s The Conquest at first glance. Anticipated with impatience, or simple curiosity, at the...  

18/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Out of Competition/France

"President" Cavalier changes approach in Pater

Following in the footsteps of his latest experiments (Le Filmeur and Irene), Alain Cavalier has unveiled Pater in Competition at Cannes. The director has, however, widened his introspective and...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition

Avé: Errant youth on the run

A chance love at first sight encounter, the charm of a road movie and a rather sombre portrait of modern-day Bulgaria and disoriented youth sum up Konstantin Bojanov’s directorial debut Avé,...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | SIC/Bulgaria

Secrets, longings and lies taint Hermanus’ Beauty

South African director Oliver Hermanus has got off to an excellent start on the Croisette with Beauty (Skoonheid), a powerful account of homosexuality, executive produced by French outfit...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Un Certain Regard/France-South Africa

Corpo Celeste: Teenage spirituality in Calabria

Insidious charm and bright beginnings mark 29-year-old Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s directorial debut,Corpo Celeste, screening in the Directors’ Fortnight of the 64th Cannes Film Festival....  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Directors’ Fortnight/Italy

Ionesco’s Princess learns mis-education and transgression through art

Last night, the International Critics’ Week of the Cannes Film Festival held a special screening (organised in collaboration with the Official Selection) of My Little Princess by Eva Ionesco....  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | SIC/France

Europe co-produces the world

Screened yesterday in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, Bonsai by Chilean helmer Cristian Jiménez is one of the many international films presented this year on the...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | France

Women plot against war in Where Do We Go Now?

The sweet smell of comedy hangs over the grave subject of the religious conflicts that blight the lives of the Lebanese people for the Un Certain Regard selection Where Do We Go Now? by Nadine...  

16/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Un Certain Regard/France

Sublime contrasts in House of Tolerance

A superb display of cinematographic talent defines Bertrand Bonello’s fascinating and sublime House of Tolerance, screening in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22). Set almost...  

16/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition/France

Interview: Lynne Ramsay • Director

"Responsibility and guilt"

Family, maternal instinct, education, guilt and the roots of violence. The Scottish director offers a few clues to We Need to Talk About Kevin  

15/05/2011

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