15/06/2009

Last Friday, with Welcome to the Sticks [+see also:
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Following Dany Boon’s feel-good movie, the next French film to open at the Grand is Olivier Assayas’ Summer Hours [+see also:
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film profile] (July 3), distributed by the Grand’s supplier and sister company, Camera Film.

On July 24, Agnès Jaoui’s Let It Rain [+see also:
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film profile] will premiere through Miracle Film. Two of the director’s previous films, The Taste of Others (2001) and Look at Me [+see also:
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film profile] (2004), were very popular in Denmark.

Next on the menu is Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain [+see also:
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interview: Hafsia Herzi
film profile], to be released by Sunrise Film on July 31. Then Philippe Claudel’s I’ve Loved You So Long [+see also:
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film profile] will open on August 7, also through Miracle Film.

Kim Foss, managing director of Grand Teatret and Camera Film, has also announced the opening of Italian film Mid-August Lunch [+see also:
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film profile], which premiered at Venice last year and has been picking up festival prizes around the globe.

The Grand is part of the Europa Cinemas label. Quality European films currently screening include Antichrist [+see also:
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interview: Lars von Trier
film profile], The Young Victoria [+see also:
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film profile], The Baader Meinhof Complex [+see also:
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film profile] and Mammoth [+see also:
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trailer
film profile].