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Pascal Mérigeau (30 January 1953, Périgné in Deux-Sèvres
Deux-Sèvres () is a French department. ''Deux-Sèvres'' literally means "two Sèvres": the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise are two rivers which have their sources in the department. It had a population of 374,878 in 2019.
) is a French journalist and film critic.
Biography
After studying in Poitiers, he settled in Paris in 1976 and became a journalist. He worked for film magazines, then for ''Les Nouvelles littéraires
''Les Nouvelles littéraires'' was a French literary and artistic newspaper created in October 1922 by the Éditions Larousse. It disappeared in 1985 after having taken the title '.
History
''Les Nouvelles littéraires'' were headed by from 1922 ...
'', '' Le Point'' and ''Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
'', before collaborating to ''Le Nouvel Observateur
(), previously known as (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation. Its current editor is Cécil ...
'' from September 1997.
He participated in the selection of films for the Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
, currently replaced by Eric Libiot.
A novelist, he also writes short stories, including ''Quand Angèle fut seule'' written in 1983.
Publications
; Novels * ''Escaliers dérobés'', Denoël, 1994 * ''Max Lang n'est plus ici'', Denoël, 1999 ; on cinema * ''Faye Dunaway'', PAC, 1978 * ''Annie Girardot'', PAC, 1978 * ''Josef Von Sternberg'', Edilig, 1983 * ''Série B'' (with Stéphane Bourgoin), Edilig, 1983 * ''Gene Tierney'', Edilig, 1987 * ''Mankiewicz'', Denoël, 1993 * ''L'aventure vraie de Canal +'', with Jacques bayard, 2001 * ''Maurice Pialat. L'Imprécateur'', Grasset, 2003 * ''Pialat, la rage au cœur'', Ramsay, 2007 * ''Cinéma : autopsie d'un meurtre'', Flammarion, 2007 * ''Depardieu'', Flammarion, 2008 * ''Jean Renoir'', Flammarion, 2012Honours
*1995: Prize for best book on cinema, for ''Mankiewicz'' *2010: Raymond Chirat Prize (Lumière Film Festival
The Lumière Film Festival is an annual film festival held each October in Lyon Metropolis, France, since 2009. The festival is named in honor of the Lumière Brothers, who invented the Cinematography in Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, O ...
)
*2013: Prize for the best French book on cinema & Prix Goncourt de la biographie
The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...
for ''Jean Renoir''
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