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2413 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 06/11/2025.

Haneke and his village of the damned

A regular in competition at the FCannes Film Festival since 1997 and winner in 2001 of the Jury Prize for The Piano Teacher (whose star Isabelle Huppert is this year’s jury president), Austrian...  

21/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/Germany

Lies spiral out of control for Cluzet in In the Beginning

"A road is always the beginning of a story and I hope that this second chance will be the right one": this short speech given by a councillor, one of the protagonists in Xavier Giannoli’s In the...  

21/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Magician Resnais’ Wild Grass

"N’importe, nous nous serons bien aimés" (“No matter, we shall have loved each other well”): this quotation from Gustave Flaubert, placed at the heart of Alain Resnais’ latest feature, Wild Grass,...  

20/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Ken and the King score a goal

Remember the Humphrey Bogart who "appeared" to Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam, offering him tips on what to do and what not to do to get the girl? Ken Loach takes the idea and runs with it in...  

18/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/UK

Chaos reigns in Antichrist

There was an uproar of applause and whistles after the press screening of Antichrist, the new work by highly talented, bold and intransigent director Lars Von Trier, presented yesterday evening in...  

18/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/Denmark

Franco-Chinese alliance for Johnnie To’s Vengeance

A self-confessed admirer of Jean-Pierre Melville’s work, virtuoso Hong Kong director Johnnie To today presented his film Vengeance in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Displaying To’s...  

17/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition | France

Audiard’s outstanding Prophet

With his remarkable A Prophet, Jacques Audiard takes a genre film about prison and criminality and transcends it, creating a complex work that combines powerful realism, the sensitive portrait of...  

16/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Jane Campion: Poetry and passion in Bright Star

Poetry and passion are Jane Campion’s fellow travellers: the acclaimed director and screenwriter from New Zealand was discovered over 20 years ago by a selector for Cannes, the veteran Pierre...  

15/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition | UK

Andrea Arnold’s wild child in Fish Tank

In 2006, the 48-year-old director from southeast England Andrea Arnold at Cannes gave us her powerful feature debut Red Road (Jury Prize). The previous year her short Wasp won her an Oscar and...  

14/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/UK

France driving force of international auteur film

Besides the three French directors selected in competition (see news) at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24), ten other Gallic productions and co-productions will vie for the Palme d’Or....  

27/04/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition

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