31/07/2006

Aside from UK and German productions (see part 1 of article), films from Italy, Scandinavia (Finland, Denmark and Norway) and Iceland will be the next most distributed in French theatres from August 23 through December 27, 2006.

Five Italian features are on the menu. First up is this year's Italian box office hit Melissa P. by Luca Guadagnino, which Gaumont Columbia TriStar will distribute on October 11, while the collective film All the Invisible Children is slated for a same-day release by One Plus One Distribution.

Other Italian films include Kim Rossi Stuart’s Along the Ridge [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kim Rossi Stuart
film profile] (November 1, MK2 Distribution), which enchanted audiences in this year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight; the highly promising Saimir [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Francesco Munzi, slated for a November release (Les Films du Paradoxe); and Emanuele Crialese’s French/Italian co-production The Golden Door [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alexandre Mallet-Guy
interview: Charlotte Gainsbourg
interview: Emanuele Crialese
interview: Emanuele Crialese
interview: Fabrizio Mosca
film profile], which is set for a December release (Memento Films).

Memento will also open Italian co-production Ten Canoes by Australia’s Rolf de Heer on November 29.

Among the seven Scandinavian films are Cannes title Lights in the Dusk [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (see article) by Finland’s Aki Kaurismaki, due on screens on October 25 (Pyramide Distribution), and Berlin sensation (Best First Film and Grand Jury Prize – see news) A Soap [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lars Bredo Rahbek
interview: Pernille Fischer Christensen
film profile] by Denmark’s Pernille Fischer Christensen, scheduled for a September release (Equation).

Other Danish films to invade French screens include the animated film Princess [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Anders Morgenthaler (see article), scheduled for release in November (Equation); After the Wedding [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
interview: Susanne Bier
film profile] by Susanne Bier (December, Equation); and Allegro [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Christoffer Boe (Celluloid Dreams Distribution).

Dark Horse [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Iceland’s Dagur Kari will be distributed in December by Epicentre Films) while Uro [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Norwegian director Stefan Faldbakken is set to be released by Rezo Films.

(Translated from French)