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Fabien Lemercier


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

Review: About Dry Grasses

Review: About Dry Grasses

CANNES 2023: Nuri Bilge Ceylan helms a new masterpiece in his inimitable signature style, furtively casting an eye over agonising existential indecision with consummate cinematic mastery  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: She Is Conann

Review: She Is Conann

CANNES 2023: Bertrand Mandico delivers an insane parable about old age killing youth, revisiting the legend of Conan in plural, female form with a Faustian bargain to boot  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Catherine Corsini  • Director of Homecoming

Interview: Catherine Corsini • Director of Homecoming

"I wanted to make a film with new faces of the kind we see too little in French cinema, despite the fact that they are very present in our society"

CANNES 2023: Sun, Corsica, summer flings, family secrets: the French director tells us about her new film, which competes for the Palme d’or  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Rosalie

Review: Rosalie

CANNES 2023: Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Benoît Magimel elevate a very classic film by Stéphanie Di Giusto on an incredibly difficult subject  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Pierre Creton • Director of A Prince

Interview: Pierre Creton • Director of A Prince

"Meetings are the film’s guiding thread"

CANNES 2023: The French director explains his highly singular approach, encompassing fiction and real life and inspired by his experience as a gardener  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Vincent Must Die

Review: Vincent Must Die

CANNES 2023: Stéphan Castang casts a brilliant Karim Leklou at the intersection of genres, amidst a paranoia-fuelled storm reminiscent of a survival movie  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Cédric Kahn  • Director of The Goldman Case

Interview: Cédric Kahn • Director of The Goldman Case

"The viewer needed to be placed in the position of a jury member"

CANNES 2023: The French director discusses his fascinating courtroom drama about Pierre Goldman  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Directors’ Fortnight

Thomas Cailley  • Director of The Animal Kingdom

Interview: Thomas Cailley • Director of The Animal Kingdom

"I like to have the pleasure of mixing genres in a story at the level of its characters"

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker talks about his second feature, a daring, accomplished, gripping and smart movie that sees humans mutating into animals  

19/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

French sales agents shift up a gear in Cannes

French sales agents shift up a gear in Cannes

CANNES 2023: Playtime kicks off presales on Monsieur Aznavour, mk2 Films on Joachim Trier and Raoul Peck’s upcoming films, and Orange Studio on Maria starring Matt Dillon  

18/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Marché du Film

Review: The Animal Kingdom

Review: The Animal Kingdom

CANNES 2023: Thomas Cailley masterfully succeeds in crafting a risky film blending the fantastical and modern-day reality, which is both gripping and in many ways like a parable  

18/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

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