16/06/2005

For its third consecutive year (19th edition in total), the Romantic Film Festival at Cabourg starts today, offering a section entitled 'European Days'. In the programme, 10 features from the Old Continent as yet unseen in France and directed by young filmmakers (1st, 2nd or 3rd film) will be screened in parallel to the official competition which attributes the Golden Swan. The European panorama will unveil productions from Italy (Saimir by Francesco Munzi and Je lis dans tes yeux by Valia Santella), from Sweden (Evil by Mikael Hafström), from Norway (Uno by Aksel Hennie), from Germany (Eierdiebe by Robert Schwentke), from hungary (Szezon by Ferenc Török), from the Czech Republic (A little piece of heaven by Peter Nikolaiev), from Germany-Poland (Ono [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Malgosia Szumowska), from Sweden-Finland (Elina by Klaus Härö) and Portugal (Odete [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Joao Pedro Rodrigues, screened at the recent Director’s Fortnight at Cannes).

Presided over by actress Virginie Ledoyen, the jury for the feature film Official Competition must separate five European films, of which four are European. My Summer of Love [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jean-Paul Rougier
interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
interview: Tanya Seghatchian
film profile] by Pawel Pawlikowski (best British film at the last Bafta Awards), Dopo Mezzanote [+see also:
film review
interview: Davide Ferrario
interview: Giorgio Pasotti
film profile] by Italian Davide Ferrario, two French productions hot from the Croisette with La petite Jérusalem by Karen Albou and Douches Froides by Antony Cordier. Elsewhere, as well as a short film competition presided over by the director Noémie Lvovsky, plus an homage to Charlotte Rampling and screenings in the Ciné-plage (including Crustacés et coquillages from the duo Jacques Martineau - Olivier Ducastel and De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté by Jacques Audiard), Cabourg also offers many previews. Among those, it’s worth noting Une romance italienne by Carlo Mazzacurati with Stefano Accorsi and Maya Sansa, Au suivant by Jeanne Biras with Clovis Cornillac, Virgil by Mabrouk El Mechri with Jalil Lespert and Quand les anges s'en mêlent by Crystel Amsalem.

(Translated from French)