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Fabien Lemercier


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

Review: Toll

Review: Toll

A distraught mother tries to steer her teenage son back towards heterosexuality in a fierce and sophisticatedly realist film directed by Carolina Markowicz  

15/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Centrepiece

Review: Without Air

Review: Without Air

The debut feature from Hungarian filmmaker Katalin Moldovai meticulously explores political correctness’ destructive power on teaching  

14/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Discovery

Nora El Hourch  • Director of Sisterhood

Interview: Nora El Hourch • Director of Sisterhood

"I wanted to describe these young people who fight adult battles with children’s weapons"

The French-Moroccan director explained the highly personal origin of her debut feature film, which is a psychological thriller navigating the grey zones of friendship and consent  

13/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Review: A Real Job

Review: A Real Job

Thomas Lilti solves the equation of intelligent social exposé meets human comedy with a funny, instructive and moving ensemble film about school teachers  

12/09/2023 | France

Héléna Klotz • Director of Spirit of Ecstasy

Interview: Héléna Klotz • Director of Spirit of Ecstasy

"What’s the alternative for modern-day youth?"

The French filmmaker explains the inner workings of a highly singular character and of an intimate thriller about an ambitious woman moving from a gendarmerie barracks to the business district  

12/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Review: Sisterhood

Review: Sisterhood

Nora El Hourch’s film is a direct yet subtle and effective film about a wonderful friendship undermined by the paradoxes of the fight against sexual violence and by social differences  

12/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Review: Spirit of Ecstasy

Review: Spirit of Ecstasy

Héléna Klotz thrusts a class defector into the ruthless world of trading and algorithms, creating an extraordinary, modern-day heroine for a fascinating film  

11/09/2023 | Toronto 2023 | Platform

Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come

Interview: Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come

"The film is haunted by an outlook full of desire and danger"

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker spoke to us about the symbolic figure of the vampire, the blend of genres in her movie and the impossibility of fitting in with society’s normative false pretences  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Review: On the Pulse

Review: On the Pulse

VENICE 2023: Despite its many high-quality components, Alix Delaporte doesn’t pull off her portrayal of a group of international correspondents, on account of excessive goodwill  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Review: For Night Will Come

Review: For Night Will Come

VENICE 2023: An incisive, vampiric teen movie, Céline Rouzet’s debut feature film explores such subjects as the rejection of difference, family solidarity and the injustice of the world  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

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