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Cannes 2006


184 articles available in total starting from 05/01/2006. Last article published on 01/06/2006.

"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

Soul Kicking, words like stones

"A modern adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck", is how Pierre Murat, one of the Critics’ Week programmers, defined it before its screening. And, in effect, Soul Kicking (I Psihi Sto Stoma) by...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics Week | Greece, Cyprus

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

Pedro's "chicas"

In competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar 16th film is filled with ghosts who return (the titleVolver, taken from the famous tango by Gardel, in fact means “to return”), and...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | Spain

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

Media Luna gets Pingpong heat

Cologne-based sales company Media Luna Entertainment is expecting brisk business with its star Cannes title Pingpong by first time director Matthias Luthardt, which has its world premiere today in...  

19/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Market | Germany

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