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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

Seidl exports his talent to the Croisette

After Dog Days (Grand Jury Prize at Venice 2001), Viennese director Ulrich Seidl – known for his documentaries (Animal Love and Models) – has found a director’s most coveted platform for the world...  

20/04/2007 | Cannes 2007/Competition | Austria

An unlikely French quintet

Five majority French productions, along with one co-production, will screen in competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27). The selection, which threw up some surprises, features four...  

20/04/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

Youth and auteurs have the power

It was a morning of surprises in Paris, with the announcement of the official competition contenders at the 60th Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27). Unveiled this morning by the Festival’s artistic...  

19/04/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

Angel: A fairytale in reverse

François Ozon’s Angel – based on a novel by Elizabeth Taylor and the closing film in competition this afternoon at the Berlinale – is a veritable fairytale in reverse set during the Edwardian...  

17/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Hallam Foe: A Scottish Holden Caulfield

Jamie Bell, the 20 year-old actor from the English countryside with chiselled features, who rose to fame as the dancing Billy Elliott of Stephen Daldry’s film of the same name, plays a solitary...  

16/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

I Served the King of England and the magic of cinema

Czech director Jirí Menzel (1990 Golden Bear winner for Larks on a String) has once again succeeded in bewitching the press at Berlin. I Served the King of England – a new adaptation of the novel...  

16/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Don’t play with love

Berlinale competition title Don't Touch the Axe is an amorous duel written by two great narrators, Jacques Rivette and Honoré de Balzac. Here the “beautiful troublemaker” strolling down the garden...  

16/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

The flip side of capitalism

A puzzled audience received the latest work by Christian Petzold, Yella, whose (world premiere) screening in competition today at the Berlinale Palast ended with little applause and some...  

14/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

Notes on lost women

"The main characters in this film are complicated, contradictory, full of problems and, in some ways, unpleasant, so we wanted, we hoped that the actresses would make audiences like them": Patrick...  

14/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

There’s something about Irina

In official competition at the Berlinale, Sam Garbarski’s Irina Palm was met with thunderous applause after its press screening yesterday. The delicate and highly entertaining film is currently...  

14/02/2007 | Berlinale 2007 | Competition

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