01/10/2009

Winner of the Grand Prize at the latest Cannes Film Festival and the French hopeful in the nomination race for the 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
interview: Jacques Audiard and Tahar R…
film profile] has surpassed the 1m admissions mark after five weeks on release.

Launched by UGC Distribution on a 280-print run on August 26 and still showing on 358 French screens, the film has so far amassed €6m at the local box office. This despite its 155-minute run-time, which limits the number of daily screenings.

Scheduled for release in Russia on October 8, A Prophet will hit screens in Italy on October 30, the UK on January 15, 2010, the Netherlands on February 4, the US on February 12 and Spain on February 19.

Christian Carion’s spy film Farewell [+see also:
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Philippe Godeau’s One for the Road [+see also:
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film profile], starring François Cluzet as a journalist determined to beat his alcohol addiction, has also started well, with 120,000 admissions in seven days (Wild Bunch Distribution on 201 screens).

Meanwhile, Gabriel Julien-Laferrière’s comedy Neuilly Sa Mère! [+see also:
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Finally, among the non-domestic European films, UK director Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank [+see also:
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interview: Andrea Arnold
film profile], which won the Jury Prize at Cannes 2009, is enjoying success with 102,000 viewers in two weeks (MK2 Diffusion on 124 screens).

(Translated from French)