Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Julia Ducournau’s Titane

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Eric Lavallée - July 14, 2021

Julia Ducournau landed in the 2016 edition of Critic's Week section with her debut film Raw (she previously had shown her short Junior as...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8 – Asghar Farhadi’s A Hero

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Eric Lavallée - July 14, 2021

After opening the competition in 2018 with Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi truly is in a return to form mode with the set in Iran...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

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Eric Lavallée - July 13, 2021

He opened the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival with Moonrise Kingdom and he returns for a second year in a row (The...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu

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Eric Lavallée - July 13, 2021

Following Un Certain Regard preemed The Student and Leto in 2018, Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the competition with the dense Petrov's Flu. Unfortunately he...