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Competition / France

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

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Sublime contrasts in House of Tolerance

A superb display of cinematographic talent defines Bertrand Bonello’s fascinating and sublime House of Tolerance, screening in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22). Set almost...  

16/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition/France

Hazanavicius captures the Artist of silence

If Michel Hazanavicius hadn’t been successful in France with the series of OSS 117 films, his The Artist would never have been presented in Official Competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival....  

15/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition/France

Maïwenn’s tough, realist Poliss uncompromisingly bold

The libertarian universe and unconventional style of Maïwenn have taken the competition section by storm at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. The French helmer’s new title, Poliss, is a tough and...  

13/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition/France

Once upon the Tales of the Night

The key is in the title: in Tales of the Night, shown in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, Michel Ocelot plays around with the type of story he is most passionate about, in 3D of course,...  

13/02/2011 | Berlinale 2011 | Competition/France

Violence of the gaze in Kechiche’s Black Venus

Saartjie Baartman, an icon for many South Africans, leaves Cape Town in 1810 for London, along with her master, the merchant Pieter Caezar, who intends to put her on show in a travelling fair....  

08/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France

Deneuve gets political in Potiche

While the photo of Catherine Deneuve in a red 1970s Adidas tracksuit has already been seen across the world, journalists at the Mostra enjoyed moments of good humour at the screening of Potiche, a...  

04/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France

Feelings and bodies laid bare in Happy Few

Sex as a foursome in flour, partner swapping, lesbian love. A scandalous film on the Lido? Not really. Antony Cordier’s second feature Happy Few is a romantic drama which (literally) lays bodies...  

03/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France

Honoré’s erotic bodies reach beyond cliché

According to director Christophe Honoré, today as in the past, French cinema lacks films and actors that explore virility in all its facets. “Actors’ bodies,” he says,” are often covered,...  

09/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/France

Eight monks come face-to-face with death in Of Gods and Men

Today saw an impressive comeback by Xavier Beauvois in competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival with Of Gods and Men. Based on the murder in 1999 in Algeria of the monks of Tibhirine, the film...  

18/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Competition/France

Games of love and art in Certified Copy

The name of Roberto Rossellini had for some time hovered over Abbas Kiarostami’s films, but this time, there is a real connection in the Iranian director’s "Journey to Italy": Certified Copy, a...  

18/05/2010 | Cannes 2010 | Competition/France/Italy

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