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fabien lemercier


9766 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 22/09/2025.

Interview: Jacques Audiard • Director

"Prison as a metaphor for society"

Extracts from the press conference at the Cannes Film Festival 2009 where A Prophet won the Grand Prize a week later  

16/05/2009

Audiard’s outstanding Prophet

With his remarkable A Prophet, Jacques Audiard takes a genre film about prison and criminality and transcends it, creating a complex work that combines powerful realism, the sensitive portrait of...  

16/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Caught in a trap in Lost Persons Area

Nine-year-old Tessa skives off school and wanders around in a no man’s land swarming with huge high-voltage electricity pylons on which her mother’s partner works. The two adults pay scant...  

16/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/Belgium

A day plunged in darkness in Ordinary People

"We’re going to deal with the enemy": with these words, the leader of a small military contingent in the Balkans, which could be any army in any country at war, sends his ten or so soldiers on a...  

16/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/Serbia

Partnership in pipeline for UGC and TF1

A strategic occasion conducive to international film announcements, the Cannes Film Festival is being used as a sounding board for the news of an agreement, in advanced negotiations, between two...  

15/05/2009 | Industry | France

Between parallel worlds in Don’t Look Back

Plunging into the depths of schizophrenia, Marina de Van’s Don’t Look Back screened before the press at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival at midday today, ahead of its Midnight Screening as part of...  

15/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Midnight Screening/France

Cruel managerial role-play in Nothing Personal

"C’est mal, ô trahison, d’inspirer la folie en gardant la raison" (“It’s bad, Oh treachery, to inspire madness whilst remaining rational”): when a company manager sings this 19th-century song to...  

15/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/France

Market presents new projects by Jancsó, Bogdán, Szász and Kenyeres

While Hungarian film is almost absent from the different selections at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, save for Belgian director Caroline Strubbe’s Lost Persons Area (in Critics’ Week), co-produced...  

14/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Market/Hungary

Interview: Andrea Arnold • Director

"A passion for the real"

UK director analysed her realist approach at the press conference after the screening of her second feature, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival  

14/05/2009

Huacho: Those left behind by modernity

Told from four different perspectives and set in the heart of a rural South America overtaken by modern life, Alejandro Fernández Almendras’ French/German/Chilean co-production Huacho offered...  

14/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/France-Ger

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