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Fabien Lemercier


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

You, the Living: a grand tragicomedy

"Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot.” This quote from Goethe, alluded to in You, the Living, the new film...  

24/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Un Certain Regard/Sweden

Just About Love?: Adolescence à la française

After Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies (see news), the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival yesterday screened the second debut feature on adolescence by a young French director. In...  

24/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Un Certain Regard

Mungiu and Polanski score

French international sales outfit Wild Bunch is busy selling 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days at Cannes. The second feature by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu was presented in official competition...  

23/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Market/France

Interview: Béla Tarr • Director

“Capturing the human being with his soul”

23/05/2007

The Man from London: Tarr, a master of hypnosis

The international press is certain to remember for a long time yet yesterday’s official competition screening at the Cannes Film Festival of The Man from London by Hungarian director Béla Tarr,...  

23/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/Hungary

The tragicomic magic of Persepolis

Official competition this afternoon at the Cannes Film Festival had a touch of the unusual, with the press screening of animated film Persepolis, a debut feature made almost entirely in 2D and...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

Jellyfish in a jar

Opened and closed with a Hebrew version of Edith Piaf’s La vie en rose, Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen’s debut feature Jellyfish showed the melancholic charm of its isolated characters this...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Critics’ Week

Bac Films chooses Mexicans and wild card Reygadas

A true darling of the Cannes Film Festival with a 2002 Caméra d’Or Special Mention for his debut film Japan and the controversy triggered by the 2005 official competition screening of Battle in...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

Deep emotions in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

New York-born director Julian Schnabel took his first successful steps in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival today, where he presented his French production The Diving Bell and the...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

Olmi, Schlondorff, Lelouch and Birkin on show

As part of its 60th anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival has chosen to pay homage to three previous Palme d’Or-winning directors by presenting their new films, and to British-born actress-singer...  

21/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Tributes

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