28/02/2003 - Italy sees the arrival of Michael Caine, France the one of Leila. Chabrol's feature and the Italian hit Respiro are out in Belgium

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The Saigon of 1952 described by Graham Greene and revisited in the remake by Phylip Noyce: The Quiet American [+see also:
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France and Belgium are featuring a decisively European programme this week. With Angel on the Right by Djamshed Usmonov, a co-production between Tajikistan, Italy, France and Switzerland, and Leila, the latest film by the Danish director Gabriel Axel, author of the famous Babette's Feast, our French cousins will be having a weekend of reflection and poetry. In Belgium there’s the much-awaited Fiore del male (The Flower of Evil) by Claude Chabrol, which was premiered at the last Berlin Festival, and the jewel of Italian cinematography from last year, Respiro [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)