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Fabien Lemercier


9723 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 17/07/2025.

Kaurismäki’s touch

Selected for the third time in official competition at Cannes, where he picked up two awards in 2002 for his The Man Without a Past, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki somewhat disappointed his fans...  

22/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Compétition | Finlande

Goodbye, Christophe de Ponfilly

French director, journalist and writer Christophe de Ponfilly committed suicide Tuesday at the age of 55. A passionate expert on Afghanistan, he made several documentaries on the country,...  

21/05/2006 | Events | France

Azur et Asmar enchants audiences

Michel Ocelot’s new animated film, Azur et Asmar, received a standing ovation this afternoon at its screening in the Directors’ Fortnight. The film’s magic enchanted the 250 children invited to...  

21/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’Fortnight | Fran

Positive results for Europa Cinemas in 2005

The Europa Cinemas theatre network revealed its results for 2005 yesterday at a press conference in Cannes, attended by European Commissioner Viviane Reding and managing director of the CNC,...  

21/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Industry | Europe

Murderers or Pialat's ghost

An air of nostalgia reigned yesterday afternoon in Un Certain Regard with Patrick Grandperret’s Murderers, a film based on an original idea by Maurice Pialat (winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes...  

21/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Un Certain Regard/France

Avida at the pinnacle of absurdity

A journey into humoristic and absurdist territory, Avida, the second feature by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern after Aaltra, screened this afternoon out of competition as part of the official...  

20/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Out of Competition | France

New films from Cantet, Assayas and Bouchareb

Several announcements were made this Saturday morning at the Cannes Film Festival. French outfit Haut et Court said that they would be making Laurent Cantet’s next film, an adaptation of Entre les...  

20/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Production | France

The loneliness of man according to Charlie

Charlie Says, the ensemble piece by French director Nicole Garcia, did not receive a very enthusiastic response from this press this morning. As far as the story is concerned, the director...  

20/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | France

Black Kafkaesque humour for The Bothersome Man

There was a hard-hitting and well-received entry today from Norway’s Jens Lien in the Critics’ Week competition. Three years after his first feature, Jonny Vang, the former rock star presented The...  

20/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | Norway

"Kamel La France" fails in Bled Number one

“The mad ones are out". This is the cruel conclusion made upon returning to the country of Algerian-born French director Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, whose film, screened in Un Certain Regard, took...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Un Certain Regard | France

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