10/10/2006

After last week’s release of the eagerly awaited Belgian minority co-production (Versus Production), Days of Glory [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jean Bréhat
interview: Rachid Bouchareb
film profile] by Rachid Bouchareb (see Focus), two other Belgian films hit cinemas this week.

Taking screens by storm will be Storm Force 10 by Hans Herbots (see news), opening in 31 cinemas through Kinepolis Film Distribution in Flanders and Brussels.

Produced by MMG Film & TV Production, starring several well known Flemish actors and based on a successful TV series, this action film bears all the hallmarks of success required to make it big at the box office.

Meanwhile, Belga Film are releasing another local production, the comedy Like Everybody [+see also:
trailer
film profile], directed by Belgian helmer Pierre-Paul Renders and produced by Entre Chien et Loup together with Rezo Production, also the film’s distributor in France.

After Thomas in Love, Renders’ debut feature about a young man who finds online romance, this comedy is an attack on television. Starring a talented French cast (Gilbert Melki, Thierry Lhermitte, Chantal Lauby), the film is being sold internationally by Fortissimo Film Sales.

Staying with all things French, Les Films de L'Elysée are releasing Manuel Pradal’s A Crime [+see also:
trailer
film profile], which was shot entirely in New York but produced by ARP Sélection. The film brings together two big actors, France’s Emmanuel Béart and US star Harvey Keitel, for a story of passion and obsession (see news).

Two other French films to hit the screens, both made by actors-turned-directors, are Premonition [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Jean-Pierre Darroussin (release through Victory Films) and Zabou Breitman ’s moving and offbeat comedy The Man of My Life [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (dist. Les Films de l'Elysée).

Rounding off this week’s new releases are two Swedish productions. Among the Thorns (Bland Tistlar) by Uzi Geffenblad Lotta Geffenblad is a medium-length feature being released at the same time as the children’s comedy Percy, Buffalo Bill & I [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Anders Gustafsson, which is being brought to screens by Jekino.

(Translated from French)