Perfume hits 479 screens
After successful openings in Germany and Italy (see news), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer [+see also:
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The distributor is giving high visibility to the screen adaptation of Patrick Süskind’s bestseller, a European co-production headed by Germany’s Constantin Film (60%), with the support of Spain’s Castelao Productions (20%) and France’s Nouvelles Editions de Films (20%) and backed by the NRW Filmstiftung (€750,000), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (€1.6m), the Bayerischer Bankenfonds (€1m), the FFA and Eurimages (€600,000).
The other big release this Wednesday is also a literary adaptation. Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe revisits the classical Le Grand Meaulnes [+see also:
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Young French cinema is also on show with Christophe Honoré’s Inside Paris [+see also:
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Other titles from Cannes and Venice include: Transylvania [+see also:
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On a smaller scale, Exes by Martin Cognito is out on two screens through Wild Bunch and another Cannes title, Danish animated film Princess [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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