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RELEASES France

From Bruegel to Calabria: ringing out the year with a diverse line-up of European films

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Films by Lech Majewski, Alice Rohrwacher, Andrea Molaioli, Jaime Balaguero and Dome Karukoski are hitting French theatres today, showing once again the extent to which French independent distributors are playing the European diversity card to the great benefit of cinema-goers.

Sophie Dulac Distribution is releasing Polish director Majewski’s Polish/Swedish co-production The Mill and the Cross [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Lech Majewski
film profile
]
, which pulls off an astonishing and aesthetically pleasing crossover between painting and cinema and stars Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling and Michael York.

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Ad Vitam is immersing viewers in southern Italy with its release of Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alice Rohrwacher
film profile
]
, a subtle and highly realistic portrait of a teenage girl who is trying to find herself in a society dominated by an opaque Catholicism. Co-produced by Italy, Switzerland and France, this debut feature was unveiled in the latest Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Italy also puts in an appearance with Molaioli’s The Jewel [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
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(see news), a loose reinterpretation of the Parmalat scandal, starring Toni Servillo. This Italian/French co-production is distributed by Bellissima Films, which continues its excellent work of raising awareness among French audiences of the diversity of Italian cinema (see news).

Fans of shudder-inducing films will be able to enjoy Spanish helmer Balaguero’s Sleep Tight [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
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(see news - distributed by Le Pacte and Wild Side), while Artédis is releasing original Finnish director Karukoski’s Forbidden Fruit, which was unveiled at Karlovy Vary in 2009 (see news), before the filmmaker made Lapland Odyssey (released in France last February).

French cinema is represented in the line-up by Mikael Buch’s quirky auteur comedy Let My People Go! (whose screenplay was co-written with Christophe Honoré – see news - distributed by Les Films du Losange) and Enrico Giordano’s Master of the World (Mob Productions and Distribution).

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(Translated from French)

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