Festival de Cannes - From 16 to 27 may 2012

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COUNTRIES ONLINE

Join us on a journey through the greatest filmmaking countries. Our short articles summarize the history of cinema as seen through the eyes of specialists. Each text is brought to life by film extracts, photographs, posters, personal accounts and...

POLAND

BY CHRISTIAN SZAFRANIAK* In France, when we think of Polish cinema, a few names spring to mind: Polanski, Wajda, Kieslowski, Zulawski, Skolimowski, and maybe also Munk, Kawalerowicz and Has. A slightly older generation or the most eager...

GERMANY

BY WIM WENDERS* Dreamed up before the Second World War (Louis Lumière should have been its first President!), the Festival didn´t actually get underway until 1946 — one effect of Germany's most disastrous contribution not only to history,...

UNITED KINGDOM

BY GILLES JACOB “There is no such thing as British cinema,” François Truffaut once said, never at a loss for provocative exaggeration. Well, well! Who would have thought that our François suffered from historical...

Press review about the 2012 Selection

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