Bright Future for French films at Rotterdam
Although there are no French films vying in competition for the Tiger Awards at the 40th Rotterdam International Film Festival which opened yesterday, Gallic productions are well represented in the event’s other sections.
The Bright Future sidebar includes Fabrice Gobert’s playful Lights Out [+see also:
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film profile]; and Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary El Sicario Room 164 [+see also:
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film profile]. Also in the line-up are minority co-productions Illegal [+see also:
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interview: Olivier Masset-Depasse
film profile] by Belgium’s Olivier Masset-Depasse (European Parliament LUX Prize 2010 competition); Adrienn Pal [+see also:
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Morgen [+see also:
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French productions also make an appearance in the Spectrum section with Mathieu Amalric’s L'Illusion Comique (“The Comic Illusion”, a contemporary adaptation of a Corneille play staged by the Comédie Française); Catherine Breillat’s The Sleeping Beauty; and Otar Iosseliani’s Chantrapas. The programme is also presenting a slew of minority French European co-productions, including King of Devil’s Island [+see also:
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film profile] by Norway’s Marius Holst; Film Socialism [+see also:
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film profile] by Switzerland’s Jean-Luc Godard; Black Ocean [+see also:
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film profile] by Belgium’s Marion Hänsel; Aurora [+see also:
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interview: Clara Voda
film profile] by Romania’s Cristi Puiu; The Strange Case of Angelica [+see also:
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film profile] by Portugal’s Manoel de Oliveira; The City Below [+see also:
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interview: Christoph Hochhäusler
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Finally, there is a retrospective of the work of F.J. Ossang (including his latest piece Dharma Guns [+see also:
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film profile]). At the Cinemart co-production market (January 30-February 2), the following films will fly the French flag: Shalimar Preuss’s A Midnight Supper (produced by Ecce Films); Santiago Otheguy’s The Instructor (Argentina/France/Spain); and Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not (Romania/France).
(Translated from French)
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