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Wave of European productions hit French screens

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Eight European features from the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain and France open on French screens this Wednesday. Heading the bill is United 93 [+see also:
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by Paul Greengrass (winner of the 2002 Golden Bear for Bloody Sunday).

The UK/US/French co-production – on one of the four planes that crashed on September 11, 2001 – from Working Title Films, Universal and StudioCanal was presented out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and is being released on 200 screens by Mars Distribution .

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"How to survive on €7 in seven days in Paris?" This is the challenge two well-off young men set themselves in French director Matthieu Delaporte’s debut feature, La jungle [+see also:
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. Distributed by SND on 170 screens, this €1.46m Onyx Films production was co-produced by Luxembourg outfit LuxAnimation S.A. (21%) (see interview with producer Ariane Payen).

Other French productions opening today include Christine Laurent’s Call Me Agostino, which stars Jeanne Balibar and Hélène Fillières (Gémini Films, 14 screens), and The Passenger by François Rotger, a French/Canadian co-production screened at Locarno in 2005, which opens on 11 screens (dist. Shellac).

Denmark is represented by Anders Thomas Jensen’s Adam's Apples [+see also:
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, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Ulrich Thomsen (see Focus including interview with director), which opens on 25 screens (dist. EuropaCorp.).

Meanwhile, Océan Films is releasing Summer in Berlin [+see also:
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by Andreas Dresen on 21 screens – nominated for six Lolas in 2006, with Best Actress awards going to Inka Friedrich and Nadja Uhl, the film won Best Screenplay at San Sebastian in 2005.

This week’s UK title is Opal Dreams [+see also:
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by Peter Cattaneo (Haut et Court, 78 screens), and film aficionados will have the chance to see no less than three films by Spanish director Gerardo Herrero: Archimedes Principle (2004) is being released by Colifilms Distribution on 5 screens, along with Heroína (2005) and Difficult Trails (2006).

Another of today’s 12 releases is Invisible Waves by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, a Dutch minority production from Fortissimo Films (Pan européenne, 18 screens).

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(Translated from French)

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