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RELEASES Belgium

Chéri marks return of winning trio

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This Easter week sees the release of an eclectic trio of European films.

Just in time for the holidays, Paradiso is releasing UK director Ian Softley’s heroic fantasy film Inkheart [+see also:
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, in which a family grapples with a group of dangerous characters who have escaped from the pages of a novel.

Produced by the US company New Line and Germany’s Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Dritte, the film is adapted from the first volume of a German trilogy. There could thus be more to follow, if young international viewers are enthusiastic about this first instalment.

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The line-up also includes Lucien Jean-Baptiste’s French film Meet the Elisabethz [+see also:
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, which enjoyed immense success among critics and audiences at home (almost 500,000 admissions in one week). Les Films de l’Elysée is launching the title on 11 screens in Wallonia and Brussels.

Twenty years after Dangerous Liaisons, Michelle Pfeiffer dons her crinoline again and does justice to Colette’s witty eloquence, in Stephen Frears’ eighth literary adaptation.

Refusing to take any risks, the UK director also collaborated with a renowned name in literary adaptations, Christopher Hampton, who scripted Dangerous Liaisons and more recently for Atonement [+see also:
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and Anne Fontaine’s Coco avant Chanel [+see also:
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(“Coco Before Chanel”, to be released in two weeks).

Presented in competition at the latest Berlinale, Chéri [+see also:
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is being released in Belgium on 20 screens, in Wallonia and Flanders, a privilege reserved for US films and major European auteurs.

Meanwhile, Belgian documentary filmmaker Thierry Michel’s Katanga Business, released last week, is attracting scores of curious cinemagoers. Backed by a huge promotional campaign and significant media coverage, the film looks set to exceed 20,000 Belgian admissions and outperform Michel’s previous work, Congo River: Beyond Darkness [+see also:
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. This shows how successful Belgian documentaries can be, when they make it into theatres.

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(Translated from French)

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