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10952 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 22/08/2025.

82.52m admissions in five months

According to estimates published by the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC), French theatres recorded 82.52m admissions from January 1-May 31, 2011, which represents an 11% drop compared...  

09/06/2011 | Box Office | France

Delépine and Kervern get ready for Le Grand Soir

Benoît Poelvoorde and Albert Dupontel will star in Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s fifth feature: Le Grand Soir (“The Big Night”), which will start shooting on July 3. The cast will also...  

09/06/2011 | Production | France

Interview: Ulrich Kohler • Director

“The alienation of people living far from their roots”

The German director explains why in Sleeping Sickness he decided to focus on the subject of European expatriates working in development aid in Africa.  

08/06/2011

Interview: Alain Cavalier • Director

“Imitate the real”

The French director discusses the well thought-out and intuitive method which guided his directing on experimental film Pater 

08/06/2011

Sleeping Sickness

Ulrich Kölher dips into the troubled waters of European humanitarian action in Africa in the film which earned him the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin in 2011.  

08/06/2011 | Films | Reviews

Pater

Veteran director Alain Cavalier has made an astonishing political film where truth and fiction merge. A cinematic experiment unveiled in competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2011.  

08/06/2011 | Films | Reviews

The Prodigies: an extraordinary adventure

Nine years in the making, The Prodigies, the 3D animated film adaptation of Bernard Lenteric’s cult novel La Nuit des Enfants Rois (“The Night of the Child-Kings”), finally hits screens today,...  

08/06/2011 | Releases | France

Kassovitz and Byrne to star in Costa Gavras’s Le Capital

Filmmaker Costa Gavras and Mathieu Kassovitz are set to re-team after enjoying success with Amen in 2002. Kassovitz will play the lead role in Le Capital, which is adapted from Stéphane Osmont’s...  

07/06/2011 | Production | France

Jacques Doillon re-teams with daughter Lou on Un Enfant de Toi

Shooting will start next Monday in Lille on the 26th narrative feature by Jacques Doillon (67): Un Enfant de Toi (“A Child By You”). The director has cast his daughter Lou Doillon (who recently...  

07/06/2011 | Production | France

Maurice Garrel takes final bow

Father of film director Philippe Garrel and grandfather of actor Louis Garrel, French thesp Maurice Garrel died in Paris on Saturday June 4, at the age of 88. Having started out in theatre, he...  

06/06/2011 | People | France

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