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Competition / France


609 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 15/09/2025.

Enter the Void's drugs, sex and spiritual journey

There was commotion yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival, where enthusiastic applause and intense booing greeted the competition screening of Argentinean-born director Gaspar Noé’s third feature...  

23/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Suleiman’s Time That Remains rich in humour and symbolism

Co-produced by France, Belgium, Italy and the UK, Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s third feature, The Time That Remains, was presented yesterday evening in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film...  

22/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

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

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

Resnais, Audiard and Giannoli in line-up

Three generations of French directors – Alain Resnais, Jacques Audiard and Xavier Giannoli – will represent their country in the race for the Palme d’Or at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival (May...  

24/04/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Competition/France

Bouchareb’s London River chokes up audiences

If the titles presented so far in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival have on the whole perplexed festival-goers, journalists’ emotion at this morning’s screening of Rachid...  

10/02/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/France

Festival regulars Ozon and Tavernier to vie for Golden Bear

François Ozon’s Ricky and Bertrand Tavernier’s In the Electric Mist join Rachid Bouchareb’s London River (see news) on the list of French productions selected in competition at the 59th Berlinale...  

16/01/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | France/Competition

Bouchareb’s London River to screen in competition

A French initiative production is included in the initial list of six titles set to screen in competition at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival (February 5-15, 2009): Rachid Bouchareb’s...  

15/12/2008 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/France

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