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

Interview: Michael Haneke • Director

"An ideal raised to the status of an absolute becomes inhuman"

The Austrian director reveals to journalists certain aspects of his method, whilst maintaining, much like his film, an element of mystery as to the possible interpretations of his work  

21/05/2009

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

Two brothers and a Napoleonic sect in Tomorrow at Dawn

There was a hint of Barry Lyndon in the air this afternoon at the screening of Denis Dercourt’s subtle Tomorrow at Dawn, presented in official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Un...  

19/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | UCR/France

Interview: Cannes 2009
Marco Bellocchio • Director

Cannes 2009 Marco Bellocchio • Director  

19/05/2009

Antichrist

Through four chapters, the couple’s journey to the depths of hell  

19/05/2009 | Films | Reviews

Vincere

There’s no doubt that the story is a dramatic one with an ending as tragic as they come. In Milan, the young socialist agitator Benito Mussolini meets Ida Dalser  

19/05/2009 | Films | Reviews

Looking for Eric

True to his penchant for social realism in film, Loach turns out a working man’s fairy tale this time around, with an optimistic take that fans the flame of solidarity and friendship  

19/05/2009 | Films | Reviews

European sales clinched despite buyers’ caution

While the competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival reaches its halfway point, with Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet emerging as the favourite among panels of French and international critics, the...  

19/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Market/France

Veteran Cavalier and the memory of Irene

"Will the film I’m working on turn out well in the end or implode?" When experienced, 77-year-old director Alain Cavalier, who won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1986 and participated in competition...  

19/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | UCR/France

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