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Pascal Mérigeau (30 January 1953, Périgné
Périgné () is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. The writer and film critic Pascal Mérigeau
Pascal Mérigeau (30 January 1953, Périgné in Deux-Sèvres) is a French journalist and film critic.
Biography
After ...
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 inPoitiers
Poitiers (, , , ; Poitevin: ''Poetàe'') is a city on the River Clain in west-central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and the historical centre of Poitou. In 2017 it had a population of 88,291. Its agglome ...
, he settled in Paris in 1976 and became a journalist. He worked for film magazines, then for '' Les Nouvelles littéraires'', ''Le Point
''Le Point'' () is a French weekly political and news magazine published in Paris.
History and profile
''Le Point'' was founded in September 1972 by a group of journalists who had, one year earlier, left the editorial team of '' L'Express'', w ...
'' 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 Cécile ...
'' 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 ...
, 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 in 1895, and is organized by the I ...
)
*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 ...
for ''Jean Renoir''
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