30/10/2009

Three new US releases, including the much-hyped This Is It (Sony Pictures), hit screens today alongside two Turkish titles (MaXXimum is launching Levent Semerciet’s Nefes: Vatan Sagolsun, which closely explores the lives of 40 Turkish soldiers stationed on the Iraq border, while Kinostar releases Atil Inac’s comedy Kolpaçino, starring Safak Sezer) and two European auteur films.

Austrian audiences will be able to discover French film Let It Rain [+see also:
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Meanwhile, Polyfilm is launching French/Belgian co-production Eldorado [+see also:
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film profile], written, directed by and starring Bouli Lanners. In this his second directorial feature, the Belgian actor plays a gruff eccentric, who finds a young burglar (Fabrice Adde) in his house and, instead of reporting him, decides to take him back to his parents’ home. The two protagonists thus begin a journey full of strange characters and situations.

(Translated from French)