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358 articles available in total starting from 24/05/2002. Last article published on 05/12/2025.

Domaine, Béatrice Dalle as a systematic alcoholic

French diva Béatrice Dalle stars as an alcoholic aunt in Domaine, the strong feature debut of French director of Austrian origins, Patric Chiha. The film is part of the Critics’ Week selection of...  

08/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/France

Solitude has no (skin) colour in Good Morning Aman

Forty-five-year-old Rome-born Teodoro and 18-year-old Somali-born Aman seem to have two very different journeys and destinies. Separated by skin colour, age and life experiences, they nonetheless...  

06/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Italy

Last stop, Metropia

In Europe in 2024, you don’t have many choices: you can either take the underground, watch the TV show "Asylum", or wash your hair. In any case, someone will read your mind and you will never...  

04/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Sweden

Farewell Gary says hello to 2009 Grand Prize

France triumphed in the 48th International Critics’ Week (SIC), which awarded its Grand Prize 2009 to Nassim Amaouche’s debut feature Farewell Gary (news). Starring Jean-Pierre Bacri, Dominique...  

22/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week

Life and death in Altiplano

Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens made an impressive Cannes debut today when they presented their second narrative feature Altiplano in Critics’ Week. This lyrical and bold Belgian/German/Dutch...  

20/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/Belgium

Farewell Gary: Working-class heroes

A far-western imaginary in a post-industrial French town where no heroes resembling Gary Cooper seem to be return to rescue the remaining locals: Nassim Amaouche's feature debut Farewell Gary,...  

18/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week

Caught in a trap in Lost Persons Area

Nine-year-old Tessa skives off school and wanders around in a no man’s land swarming with huge high-voltage electricity pylons on which her mother’s partner works. The two adults pay scant...  

16/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/Belgium

A day plunged in darkness in Ordinary People

"We’re going to deal with the enemy": with these words, the leader of a small military contingent in the Balkans, which could be any army in any country at war, sends his ten or so soldiers on a...  

16/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/Serbia

Cruel managerial role-play in Nothing Personal

"C’est mal, ô trahison, d’inspirer la folie en gardant la raison" (“It’s bad, Oh treachery, to inspire madness whilst remaining rational”): when a company manager sings this 19th-century song to...  

15/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/France

Huacho: Those left behind by modernity

Told from four different perspectives and set in the heart of a rural South America overtaken by modern life, Alejandro Fernández Almendras’ French/German/Chilean co-production Huacho offered...  

14/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Critics’ Week/France-Ger

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