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10914 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 01/08/2025.

Unanimous praise for Sattouf’s Les Beaux Gosses

Illustrator Riad Sattouf’s debut feature Les Beaux Gosses (“Good-looking Kids”) has been enthusiastically received by the press, which has called it "A revelation"; "Hilarious"; "Wonderfully...  

10/06/2009 | Releases | France

Advance on receipts for Zlotowski’s Belle Epine

Four screenplays for debut features were selected by the National Film Centre’s advances on receipts committee at its spring session. These include Rebecca Zlotowski’s Belle Epine (“Beautiful...  

09/06/2009 | Funding | France

Positive spring results

With 85.72m admissions for the first five months of 2009, audience figures in French theatres have dropped by 5.5% compared to the same period in 2008, according to estimations published by the...  

09/06/2009 | Box office | France

Annecy showcases animated films

The 33rd Annecy Animated Film Festival (June 8-13) kicks off today with a line-up of 192 films. Meanwhile, 1,900 professionals (including 180 buyers and 330 exhibitors) will gather at the Market...  

08/06/2009 | Festivals | France

Tautou and Baye start shooting Salvadori’s De vrais mensonges

Shooting gets underway today in Sète on Pierre Salvadori’s seventh feature, De vrais mensonges (“Complete Care”). After the success of Priceless (2.15m admissions in France), the director reunites...  

08/06/2009 | Production | France

Reno and Laurent star in The Round-Up

On July 16-17, 1942, over 13,000 Jews were arrested in Paris and its suburbs by French police who were zealous supporters of the German occupiers. Detained at Vel' d'Hiv (Vélodrome d'Hiver) and...  

05/06/2009 | Production | France

Carré and López shoot Rendez-vous avec un ange

The first week of shooting has come to an end in Paris on Rendez-vous avec un ange, the debut feature by Yves Thomas and Sophie de Daruvar. The film stars Isabelle Carré (who appears in So Happy...  

05/06/2009 | Production | France

Home sounds environmental alarm across world

"To distribute the film on a maximum number of supports and as freely as possible": such was the aim of photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand in his first directorial foray. This dream has become a...  

04/06/2009 | Releases | France

Les Films du Losange launches Antichrist on 120 screens

Preceded by an explosive reputation and crowned with the Best Actress Award (for Charlotte Gainsbourg) at the recent Cannes Film Festival, Danish director Lars von Trier’s Antichrist is being...  

03/06/2009 | Releases | France

Quillévéré’s debut feature Un Poison Violent starts shooting

Young director Katell Quillévéré (29), who attracted attention with her shorts (including A Bras le Corps, unveiled in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and nominated for a Cesar in 2007), starts...  

02/06/2009 | Production | France

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