14/12/2005

Approaching the Christmas holiday period, the Belgian screens are becoming busier and busier, notably due to production from the States. And this week even more so due to King Kong which is unveiled across Europe. But four European films are ready to take on the perils.

Gérard Krawczyk, a regular theatrical success (the first two episodes of Taxi and more recently Fanfan la Tulipe) abandons his usual producer, Luc Besson, for Jean-François Le Petit (Flach Filmz). La vie est à nous ("Life is ours"), distributed by Les films de l'Elysée, with Sylvie Testud, Josiane Balasko, the footballer Eric Cantona and Michel Muller is co-produced by the director himself (Oz Production).

The second episode of the American adventure by Lars Von Trier, the Cannes success Manderlay [+see also:
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