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Fabien Lemercier


9710 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 04/07/2025.

Life and emptiness in Better Things

Better Things deals with shocking subject matter in a sophisticated style. Opening with a death by drug overdose and infused with a mournful atmosphere, this debut feature by the UK’s Duane...  

17/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week/UK

Azema and Darroussin take a hilarious trip to the Pyrenees

A bear, nudists priests, hallucinogenic mushrooms, a Tibetan, a sex inversion, a chocolate massage and bungee jumping: Le Voyage aux Pyrénées by brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu has opened...  

16/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Director's Fortnight/France

The Stranger in Me: haunting look at post-natal depression

"I wanted him to go away. I thought my milk was poison." Bold director Emily Atef (Berlin-born Franco-Iranian) plunged viewers into an ultra-realistic portrayal of the horrors of post-natal...  

16/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week/Germany

A bittersweet Christmas Tale

Bitter unresolved family issues are served up in Arnaud Desplechin's sixth feature, A Christmas Tale, presented this morning in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is as brilliant as...  

16/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition/France

Kinology se lance avec L’ennemi public n°1

Tremplin idéal pour annoncer la naissance de nouveaux projets de films ou la création de sociétés, le Marché du Film du Festival de Cannes ne déroge pas à ses habitudes. Encore récemment...  

16/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Marché/ France

Thunder rolls in Three Monkeys

In competition at the Cannes Film Festival for the third time in six years, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan presented Three Monkeys to the press yesterday evening. The work explores in greater...  

16/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition

Dying for the cause in Hunger

The Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival opened today with Hunger, the remarkable debut feature by British contemporary artist Steve McQueen. This brilliantly directed, powerful...  

15/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Un Certain Regard/UK

Love is in the air in Moscow, Belgium

A supermarket car park, a minor car crash and a thundering argument between a woman left by her husband and a stubborn lorry driver, a former alcoholic whose only reminder of his ex-partner is a...  

15/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Critics’ Week/Belgium

Jerzy Skolimowski’s bizarre comeback

"As you know, grandma, I’m seeing a woman" declares the protagonist of Jerzy Skolimowski’s Four Nights With Anna, which today opened the 40th Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Festival. The film...  

15/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Directors’ Fortnight/Pol

Wild Bunch leads the way

With its weighty line-up (see news), French international sales company Wild Bunch got sales off to a cracking start at the Cannes Festival Film Market. Arnaud Desplechin’s Un conte de Noël (“A...  

15/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Market

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