Top European actors hit screens
With a 30-something Romain Duris anxious about the perspective of being in a relationship, Mathieu Amalric as a psychologist investigating the Nazi unconscious of big companies, Elio Germano as an idealist steering between the extreme right and the revolutionary left in Italy before the Years of Lead and François Cluzet experiencing sentimental comings and goings, actors are in the spotlight today in the nine new releases out on French screens.
On their way, they meet Matt Damon in The Bourne Ultimatum by UK director Paul Greengrass (509 screens, Paramount), one of the three US productions released this Wednesday alongside a Japanese feature and four French titles.
Studio Canal is focusing on Italian cinema by distributing 138 prints of Daniele Luchetti’s My Brother Is an Only Child [+see also:
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film profile] with Germano (2007 David for Best Actor), Riccardo Scamarcio and Diane Fleri. Screened at the 2007 Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar (see Focus), the feature scripted by Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli, a duo with a string of successes to their name (The Best of Youth [+see also:
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Another film off the Croisette is the dark Heartbeat Detector [+see also:
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UGC Distribution is opening Raphaël Fejto’s L'âge d'homme maintenant ou jamais ! on 201 screens. The €3.88m studio production (UGC YM) stars Duris, Aissa Maiga and Clément Sibony. Financing was provided by France 2 Cinéma (€700,000) and pre-sales from Canal +.
With a strong cast composed of Cluzet (César 2007 for Best Actor), André Dussolier, Karin Viard, Brigitte Catillon and the director, Sam Karmann’s True Enough [+see also:
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The €5.32m Les Films A4 production was co-produced by France 2 Cinéma and Rhône-Alpes Cinéma.
Lastly, Tamasa Distribution are opening Charly [+see also:
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(Translated from French)