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Cannes 2009 / France

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29 articles available in total starting from 24/04/2009. Last article published on 25/05/2009.

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Audiard and Gainsbourg winners

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival was a true triumph for France, in particular thanks to the Grand Prize for A Prophet (see review) by Jacques Audiard (see interview). Having won Best Screenplay in...  

25/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Awards/France

Coco & Igor: Passion, tension and art

When two charismatic personalities from the creative world meet, sparks are to be expected, beyond morality and social convention. Such was the passionate relationship between renowned French...  

23/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Closing film/France

Positive results for Films Distribution

French international seller Films Distribution was feeling satisfied at the close of the Film Market at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Head of sales Didar Domehri commented: "Even though business...  

23/05/2009 | Cannes 2009 | Market/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

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

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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