Groupies and Mammuth in comedy-filled line-up
Today, Walt Disney is launching on German and Austrian screens (through Buena Vista in the second case) the new film by Marc Rothemund (Sophie Scholl – The Final Days [+see also:
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This romantic comedy, produced by Munich-based Sam Film, centres on 17-year-old Lila, whose young dream comes true when she falls in love with a star and has her love reciprocated, without realising he is the singer of the most popular band of the moment. However, Lila’s romantic life turns out to be not so straightforward.
As of today, German audiences will also get the chance to discover the French comedy starring Gérard Depardieu which made festival-goers laugh so much at its competition screening at the Berlinale: Mammuth [+see also:
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film profile] by Benoit Delépine and Gustave de Kervern (see review). This rather picaresque, dada-style film centres on a decent chap with the appearance of a gruff bear who travels back through his past on a motorbike. Also featuring the phenomenal Yolande Moreau, the title is distributed by X Verleih.
Still in Germany, Stephen Burke’s German/Irish film Happy Ever Afters [+see also:
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This week’s line-up of new European releases is completed by Christian Bau and Artur Dieckhoff’s documentary Zwiebelfische (distributed by Die Thede), which looks at the artistic career of Jimmy Ernst (son of Max).
In Austria tomorrow, Filmladen is launching another popular European comedy, Laurence Tirard’s Little Nicolas [+see also:
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Meanwhile, Thimfilm is releasing P. A. Straubinger’s documentary about light In the Beginning There Was Light, produced by Allegro Film.
In both Austria and Germany, these films will have to compete for audiences with Paul W.S. Anderson’s 3D film Resident Evil: Afterlife, starring Milla Jovovich and distributed by Constantin.
(Translated from French)
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