14/10/2013 - The French Oscar-winning actress and the Irish U2 founder and drummer will attend the gala opening of Norwegian director Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s A Thousand Times Good Night

Oslo’s Colosseum Theatre will roll out the red carpet to receive French Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche (photo) and Irish actor (and U2 founder-drummer) Larry Mullen Jr at the gala premiere Wednesday, October 16, of Norwegian director Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s A Thousand Times Good Night [+see also:
trailer
interview: Erik Poppe
film profile] (read the interview of the director). Local distributor Euphoria will release

“They are both looking forward to the premiere – Binoche has just finished a new film, and Mullen Jr is taking a break from studio recordings of U2’s next record. It is only I who am morbidly nervous about everything that can go wrong,” explained Poppe.“We have also invited Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau for the opening, but he is not sure he can make it – he is in the US shooting Game of Thrones; but the children playing Binoche and Coster-Waldau’s daughters will certainly attend.”

Internationally launched six weeks ago at the 37^th Montreal World Film Festival, where it received the Special Grand Prix of the Jury, adding a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury, A Thousand Times Good Night follows a famous woman war photographer, Rebekka, who is seriously wounded when following a suicide bomber in Kabul; when she returns home she is met by an ultimatum – job or family.

In her first role in a Norwegian feature, which was scripted by Norwegian writer Harald Rosenløw Eeg, Binoche performs with Mullen Jr, Coster-Waldau, Norwegian actor Mads Ousdal and Irish actress Maria Doyle Kennedy. Mainly shot in Dublin and Morocco, the film was produced by Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B Kvae for Paradox, with Ireland’s Newgrange Pictures and Zentropa International Sweden.