Anglo-French pair out
Just two of the eleven titles out today in France are European. Philippe Le Guay’s Gallic feature, Le coût de la vie and Peter Cattaneo’s British comedy Lucky Break will try their level best to prevail against a predominance of US films.
Le Guay’s fourth feature stars Géraldine Pailhas, Vincent Lindon and Fabrice Luchini and was produced by Anne-Dominique Toussaint’s Les Films des Tournelles with a €5.3m budget and co-produced by Pathé Renn, , M6 Films and Gimages. It is the story of how money dominates the lives and behaviour of a number of characters. Pathé is releasing Le coût de la vie onto 300 screens and they hope that the excellent media coverage this title received and next month’s screening at the Locarno Film Festival will help the distributor recover from the flop of Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s It's all about love [+see also:
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Lucky Break is Peter Cattaneo’s second feature and the eagerly awaited follow-up to his 1997 worldwide hit, The Full Monty, is another comedy about an ingenious jailbreak and it stars James Nesbitt ( Bloody Sunday [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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