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Rendez-vous à Kiruna in uncharted emotional territory

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- A new movie for Anna Novion, filmed in Sweden. Europe in the limelight, with Sergei Loznitsa, Ignacio Ferreras, Martin McDonagh and Hans-Christian Schmid

The international road movie seems to be in vogue for young French filmmakers. After Welcome to Argentina [+see also:
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last week, Lapland makes its entrance today with Rendez-vous à Kiruna [+see also:
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by Anna Novion, distributed by Pyramide on 73 screens. Revealed at the Critics' Week in Cannes in 2008 with Grown-Ups [+see also:
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, this French director has once again filmed in Sweden (her mother’s homeland), calling upon Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Anastasios Soulis (a young Swedish actor with a Greek father and Finnish mother).

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Written by the director and Olivier Massard, the screenplay follows the story of Ernest, a renowned French architect who is summoned to Kiruna by the Swedish police to identify the body of a son he never knew. On his long journey, he crosses the path of Magnus, a sensitive young man who is the complete opposite of the authoritarian and suspicious Ernest... A relationship develops from these chance circumstances, distilling delicate emotions...

Non-national European cinema has a place of honour amongst this Wednesday's 14 new releases, with the impressive contender for Cannes In the Fog [+see also:
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(review) by Sergei Loznitsa (ARP Sélection on 16 screens), an excellent animated Spanish film, Wrinkles [+see also:
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, by Ignacio Ferreras (Bac Films on 17 screens), the entertaining Seven Psychopaths [+see also:
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(review) by Irish director Martin McDonagh (Wild Side Films & Le Pacte on 161 screens), and the bittersweet Home For the Weekend [+see also:
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(review) by German director Hans-Christian Schmid, in competition last year in Berlin (Jour2Fête on 9 screens).

Amongst French productions, Crawl [+see also:
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(review) by Hervé Lasgouttes (interview), Label Europa Cinemas at the Venice Days 2012 (Premium Films on 21 screens) deserves particular attention.

Today's releases also include the enjoyable dramatic comedy Amitiés sincères [+see also:
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from the Stephan Archinard - François Prévôt-Leygonie duo (with Gérard Lanvin, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Wladimir Yordanoff and Ana Girardot - SND in 515 cinemas), the English-language action movie Intersections [+see also:
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by David Marconi (with Roschdy Zem and Frank Grillo - EuropaCorp Distribution on 275 screens), the nocturnal After by Géraldine Maillet (with Julie Gayet and Raphaël Personnaz - Océan Films on 4 screens), the comedy Pas très normales activités by Maurice Barthélémy (Paramount Pictures on 203 screens) and the documentary Công Binh la longue nuit indochinoise by Lam Lê (ADR Distribution, on 15 screens).

Worth noting in the box-office, the 520,000 admissions chalked up in 12 days for Alceste à bicyclette [+see also:
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by Philippe Le Guay and the surprise Paulette [+see also:
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by Jérôme Enrico (375,000 spectators in about two weeks).

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(Translated from French)

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