15/03/2006

Released on Wednesday, De hel van Tanger [+see also:
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film profile], the latest film by Frank Van Mechelen, could well make a splash. Last year, his previous film, The Intruder, also produced by Skyline Entertainment, attracted 166,293 admissions – over the Dardennes brothers’ The Child [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film profile], which came in second with 138,590 admissions – and was the most popular domestic film in Belgium in 2005.

Distributed on 28 screens by Kinepolis Film Distribution, De hel van Tanger [+see also:
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film profile] is the sombre story of drug trafficking that goes awry and leads to imprisonment in a remote Moroccan jail. The film stars Filip Peeter, who also appeared in The Intruder and whom audiences were able to catch recently in Jan Verheyen‘s Buitenspel [+see also:
trailer
film profile], winner of the Joseph Plateau Public Award for 2005.

As for the French and the British, Paradiso Filmed Entertainment is bringing out two aces this week: Claude Chabrol’s new film, A Comedy of Power [+see also:
trailer
film profile], and The Descent [+see also:
trailer
film profile], by the master of British horror, Neil Marshall, whose film was presented out of competition at last year’s Venice Film Festival (see review).

The rest of the distribution slate in Belgium is also completely European this week, with the releases of Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (distributed by Alternative Films); the new comedy by Niall Johnson starring Rowan Atkinson, Keeping Mum [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (Belga Film); Julie Lopez Curval’s gentle comedy Toi et moi [+see also:
trailer
film profile], starring Belgium’s Jonathan Zaccaï (Les Films de L'Elysée); and, lastly, the French/Iraqi co-production Kilometre Zero [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Hiner Saleem , which screened in official competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival (Victory Films).

(Translated from French)