Five European films on the screen

06/04/2005

As new selection of films, as varied as ever, reaches the French public today : next to three American productions and a Brazilian one, we find three French movies, an Italian and an English one, which give spectators an opportunity to anjoy or discover the work of some directors whose past works were praised by the critics, such as Christian Vincent, Nicolas Klotz, Kenny Glenaan, and Saverio Costanzo.

Les Enfants by Christian Vincent is distributed by Pathé Distribution on 80 copies. It has already received the critics’ acclaim and the great performances of the actors Gérard Lanvin and Karin Viard were said to give strength to this film in which two divorced parents (both with two children) meet and have to face their respective offsprings’ influence and resistance. This €5.2M movie about the problems of a very modern type of family was produced by Claude Berri for Pathé Renn Production and coproduced by TF1 Films Production (with €1.53M).
A similar budget (5.3 million euros) allowed Mandarin Films to produce the comedy Brice de Nice by James Huth, starring Jean Dujardin, Elodie Bouchez, and Clovis Cornillac. The film was coproduced by M6 (which invested 1.35 million euros). The distributor TFM ventured 400 copies on the market.

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The other films have smaller budgets. La blessure [+see also:
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As for the non-French European films released today, both of them have 40 copies running. Private, a film about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict by Saverio Costanzo (Italy), is distributed by ID Distribution, while Yasmin, by Kenny Glenaan (UK) —the life in the North of England of a Pakistani woman who finds it hard to combine two cultures—, is launched by Les Films du Safran.