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Black Venus hits screens and spearheads MK2 line-up

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Unveiled at the Venice Festival and launched in France today on a 123-print run by its producer MK2, Abdellatif Kechiche’s powerful and disturbing Black Venus [+see also:
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is creating a splash among this Wednesday’s 11 new releases.

The critically-acclaimed feature starring Yahima Torres, André Jacobs and Olivier Gourmet will also be screened tomorrow at the Rome Film Festival market before heading to the American Film Market, where it will spearhead MK2’s ambitious line-up.

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MK2’s international sales team is also hoping for success with two titles currently shooting: Brazilian director Walter Salles’s highly-anticipated On The Road (whose cast includes Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Stewart, Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley); and Belgian/French co-production The Fairy by directorial trio Bruno Romy, Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (who attracted attention with their original, offbeat humour in L’Iceberg [+see also:
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and Rumba [+see also:
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).

Among MK2’s projects in production, Pascal Sid and Julien Lacombe’s Camerone stands out. This 3D action and science-fiction feature will centre on a Foreign Legion unit of six men who are inexplicably sent back 60 years in time and find themselves in a Nazi-occupied village.

Shooting will also start in early 2011 on Xavier Dolan’s French/Canadian co-production Laurence Anyways, whose cast includes Louis Garrel and Nathalie Baye.

MK2’s line-up also comprises Gérald Hustache-Mathieu’s Nobody Else But You (see news – to be released in France through Diaphana on January 12, 2011); Guillaume Nicloux’s Holiday (see news – MK2 Diffusion on December 22, 2010); Charles de Meaux’s Stretch (to be released by MK2 in January 2011); as well as Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy [+see also:
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; and Outbound by Romania’s Bogdan George Apetri.

Besides Black Venus, four other French films are hitting screens this Wednesday: Jean-Claude Janer’s Sister Welsh’s Nights (see newsAlbany Films Distribution); Anne Depetrini’s comedy Il Reste du Jambon? (“Is There Any Ham Left?”, Gaumont); Georges Ruquet’s Blind Test (Les Films à Fleur de Peau); and Pierre Carles’s documentary Fin de Concession (“End of Concession”, distributed by Shellac). Another highlight among this week’s releases is Chilean director Patricio Guzman’s outstanding French co-production Nostalgia for the Light, which was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival and is distributed by Pyramide.

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(Translated from French)

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