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571 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

The Nun: a soul in search of freedom

Guillaume Nicloux's talented interpretation of Diderot’s novel on the battle waged by a young girl, shut away in a convent against her will in the 18th century  

10/02/2013 | Berlinale 2013 | Competition/France

Take three ! Ulrich Seidl presents Paradise: Hope

Berlinale: The third part of the Paradise trilogy by Ulrich Seidl is presented, like the first two, at a major European festival  

09/02/2013 | Berlinale 2013 | Competition/France

Audiard, Resnais, and Carax: a virtuoso trio

France looks set to do well this year in Cannes, with three contenders for the Palme d’Or who are already famous for their very personal and contrasting styles.  

20/04/2012 | Cannes 2012 | Competition/France

Our beloved Tabu

In the style of a colonial film from the 1960s shot in 16mm, the prologue of Tabu by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Our Beloved Month of August) tells of how a crocodile became inconsolable...  

15/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Portugal/Germany/Brasil/France

Sister: a young Sisyphus in the Swiss Alps

Ursula Meier’s second feature film Sister opened the Berlinale’s fifth day, with the image of a 12-year-old boy, bundled up and overloaded, who goes forth in life as if wearing ski boots, with...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition | Switzerland/France

Captive in the heart of darkness

Filipino director Brillante Mendoza is not known for doing anything half-heartedly. We all remember the dread with which we welcomed his film Kinatay (2009) and his award for best director in...  

13/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/ France/Philippines/Germany/UK

Coming Home: eight years of endless solitude

After eight years, a kidnapper (Reda Kateb) releases Gaëlle, his only reason to live, and the adolescent runs away for her life. As she does, she turns back for just an instant to see, for the...  

11/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/France

Tey: journey to the end of the life

The second day of the competition at the 62nd Berlinale kicked off with a lively walk through the streets of an unidentified Senegalese town, the hometowm of Satché, the hero of Tey by...  

10/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/France

Farewell, My Queen: when idols vacillate

On July 14, 15 et 16, 1789, from the storming of the Bastille to king Louis XVI’s departure from Versailles to Paris at the beginning of the French Revolution, an old order starts to crumble. The...  

09/02/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Competition/France

Mihaileanu’s Source of sexual strife

Tackling the various melodramatic and tragicomic angles of the complex subject of women’s subjugation in Muslim countries, French-Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu’s The Source, the last...  

21/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition/France

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