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Fabien Lemercier


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

Refined revenge for Denis Dercourt

It was cruel revenge with, as its backdrop, classical music and a demonstration of subtle talent yesterday in Un Certain Regard with La Tourneuse de pages, the third feature by French director...  

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

Official birth of Europa Distribution

This afternoon marked the official birth of Europa Distribution, the most important network of independent European distributors, at the Cannes Film Festival. Baptised at a press conference...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Industry | Europe

Pingpong: A bitter family portrait

A film with an insidiously corrosive atmosphere under a summer sun was the highlight of today’s Critics‘ Week programme, with the screening of Pingpong, a promising debut feature by German...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics'Week | Germany

Don Quixote through the radical lens of Albert Serra

Faithful to his influences (Bresson, Ozu, Pasolini and Olmi), Spanish director Albert Serra this morning presented Directors’ Fortnight with Honor de Cavalleria, a radical and uncompromising film...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight–Spain

Haneke to shoot remake of Funny Games

Austrian director Michael Haneke’s next film will be a French/UK/US co-production: an English-language remake of his own Funny Games (1997). With Naomi Watts heading the bill, the film will...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Market | Europe

Jeremy Thomas, committed producer of Fast Food Nation

Independent US filmmaker Richard Linklater presented his UK co-production Fast Food Nation, selected in official competition, to the press yesterday evening. Part documentary feature on the...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | UK

Cassel and Garcia to star in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s new film

Taking advantage of his presence in Cannes as master of ceremonies, French actor Vincent Cassel has revealed that he is going to star in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Sa majesté Minor. José Garcia will...  

18/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Market | France

The unclassifiable Taxidermia

The theatre was full this afternoon for the press screening of the second feature by highly talented Hungarian director György Palfi, Taxidermia, which is being presented in Un Certain Regard. The...  

18/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Un Certain Regard | Hungary

The disconcerting world of Princess

The Directors’ Fortnight will open this afternoon with the screening of the intriguing Danish film Princess, the debut feature by Anders Morgenthaler on a topic that is anything but conventional....  

18/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight | Denmark

Literary microcosm and evil friendships

"Why do some people write? Because they don’t have enough character not to write". In exploring the possibilities of this quote by Austria’s Karl Kraus (1874-1936), French director Emmanuel...  

18/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | France

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