18/01/2006

12 new films hit the French theatres today in the wake of Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee, Golden Lion at the last Mostra. In total, four American features, a Japanese animated film and a Canadian documentary take on six European productions : three French pieces, a Swiss documentary, a British period film and Portuguese-Angolan co-production. Comfortably topping the bill with 486 prints from Gaumont Columbia TriStar is the comedy Un ticket pour l'espace (A ticket for space) by Eric Lartigau with Kad and Olivier, Marina Foïs, Guillaume Canet and André Dussolier. Produced by LGM Productions and Gaumont (who handle international sales) with support from M6 Films, the film traces the misadventures of two men who win first prize in a game allowing two civilians to take a trip to the European space station.

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Selected in official competition at the Locarno festival in 2005 (readarticle, Riviera by Anne Villacèque with Vahina Giocante, Miou-Miou and Elie Semoun has forty prints launched by Bac Films. Produced by Agat Films & Cie, in co-production with Nathan Production and Arte France Cinéma (450 000 euros support), the director’s second feature received an Advance on Receipts of 370 000 euros from the CNC. Finally, French cinema will be represented on 14 screens by C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé (It wasn’t exactly the life I dreamed of) by Michel Piccoli, distributed by Gémini Films.
As for non-local European films, it’s worth noting the 210 prints from Mars Distribution for the British film Pride and Prejudice [+see also:
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film profile] by Joe Wright, and the 25 prints launched by Les Histoires Weba for Na cidade vazia by Angolaise Maria João Ganga (a Portuguese production from Animatógrafo 2) and the release in one Parisian theatre of the Swiss documentary Coca, la colombe de Tchétchénie (Coca, the Chechen dove) by Eric Bergkraut within the framework of the collection Caméra au poing.

(Translated from French)