08/06/2010

Alain Resnais, Radu Mihaileanu, François Ozon, Joann Sfar and Catherine Corsini are making the trip to London where their latest films will be presented at the Curzon Soho, BFI Southbank and Ciné Lumière as part of the Rendez-vous with French Cinema, which kicks off today and runs until June 11. The five directors and actors Kristin Scott Thomas and Louis-Ronan Choisy will meet with UK audiences in order to ensure optimum promotion for films that are about to be released in UK theatres.

Selected, in close collaboration with local distributors, by Unifrance (who organise the Rendez-Vous in partnership with the French Embassy and French Institute in London), six features are included in the line-up: Resnais’s Wild Grass [+see also:
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film profile] (Metrodome – July 9); Mihaileanu’s The Concert [+see also:
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interview: Radu Mihaileanu
film profile] (Optimum Releasing – July 16); Je T’aime, Moi Non Plus [+see also:
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Interview with Joann Sfar, director of…
interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
film profile] by Sfar (see video interview – Optimum, July 30); and Ozon’s The Refuge [+see also:
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film profile] (see video interview – Artificial Eye, August 13). The programme is completed by a remastered version of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (Optimum).

Other French films hitting UK screens this summer are Benoît Jacquot’s Villa Amalia [+see also:
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film profile] (Artificial Eye) on July 2; Rachid Bouchareb’s London River [+see also:
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film profile] on July 9 (Trinity Filmed Entertainment); Catherine Breillat’s Blue Beard [+see also:
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They will be followed by Jan Kounen’s Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky [+see also:
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interview: Sylvain Chomet
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film profile] (Momentum Pictures) and Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy [+see also:
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film profile] (Artificial Eye) on September 3; and finally, Luc Besson’s The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec [+see also:
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(Translated from French)