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623 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/11/2025.

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Rivette steps into the ring with 36 Views of Saint-Loup Peak

The circus as a metaphor for life: it’s not a particularly original idea, especially in cinema (explored in different ways by directors from Chaplin to Fellini). But it isn’t the image of a circus...  

07/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/France

Denis returns to Africa for White Material

In an example of festival paradoxes, last year, Claire Denis (a regular on the Lido) came to Venice with 35 Shots of Rum, which won great acclaim as one of her most accomplished films. Many, quite...  

06/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition | France

Duris gives Volpi Cup-worthy performance in Persecution

Four years after Gabrielle, which earned its star Isabelle Huppert a Special Golden Lion Award, Patrice Chéreau returns to competition at Venice with Persecution. Although it doesn’t repeat the...  

05/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/France

Rivette in pole position for competition selection

One month before Marco Muller unveils the competition titles of the 66th Venice Film Festival (September 2-12), Jacques Rivette’s French/Italian co-production 36 Vues du Pic Saint-Loup (“36 Views...  

30/06/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/France

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

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