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RELEASES Belgium

Brussels at the cinema

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Last week saw a deluge of new releases, with six European titles opening on Belgian screens: two French comedies (Mes Copines – lit. "My Friends" – and Late Graduates), a French documentary (Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac – lit. "In the Skin of Jacques Chirac"), a German title Welcome Home [+see also:
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(see Focus), the British comedy Chicken Tikka Masala by Harmage Singh Kalirai and the directorial debut of Olivier Van Hoofstadt, domestic film Dikkenek (see news).

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This week’s nine new releases feature three European productions. While the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique last month paid tribute to the US director of Monty Python fame Terry Gilliam, who opened the preview screening of his Tideland [+see also:
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in person, Cinéart will release the UK production tomorrow (see news).

French comedies opening this week include L'entente cordiale [+see also:
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by Vincent de Brus, distributed by Les Films de L'Elysée.

ABC Distribution meanwhile are more spicy and daring with their release of the second feature by Spanish actress Laura Mañá, To Die in San Hilario, a Filmax International production. A caustic, absurd and, in many places, tender comedy, the film tells the story of a small village’s preparations and expectations when a filthy rich man decides to come there to die. However, things don’t go as planned when someone steals his identity and takes his place, yet the criminal is oblivious to the fact that the whole village is getting ready to bury him.

The country’s screens should be packed and theatres crowded between today’s opening of Ecran Total, held in Brussels’ Arenberg cinema, which will give audiences a chance to discover or rediscover classics, films never shown before and films that had only a fleeting stay in theatres, through the end of the summer; the Cinédécouvertes at the Cinémathèque, a programme of recent, never-before released films; and the Brussels Film Festival (see news), which kicks off Friday with debut films from European filmmakers.

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(Translated from French)

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