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fabien lemercier


9759 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 12/09/2025.

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

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

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