Belgian actors on show
Back after the summer break, Belgium is having considerable success showing off a large number of its actors here, there and everywhere on both sides of the Belgian-French border. In Paris, Emilie Dequenne, the Rosetta of the Dardenne brothers which won her a Palme at Cannes for her first film role, is on show with her second part in the film by Antoine Santana, La Ravisseuse, sharing the bill with Grégoire Colin and Isild Le Besco. The young star from Namur Cécile de France continues her adventure with Poupées Russes, the European blockbuster from Cédric Klapish, and is shooting non-stop: in the film by Alain Berliner currently shooting in Belgium, and provisionally called Broadway dans la tête, in the next film from female French director Danièle Thompson Fauteuils d'orchestre where she will play the lead role and finally in Quand j'étais chanteur by Xavier Giannoli, alongside Gérard Depardieu. Natacha Régnier has just completed shooting with Belgian Lucas Belvaux (La Raison du plus faible [+see also:
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As for Benoit Poelvoorde, after Selon Charlie by Nicole Garcia which should come out at the start of next year and Du Jour au lendemain by Philippe Le Guay (for which shooting ended a few weeks ago and will be in the cinemas in March 2006), the Belgian actor, perhaps the most popular on both sides of the border, should start shooting in the autumn on the third feature by Benoît Mariage in Belgium and plays the role of Brutus in the next episode of Astérix at the Olympic Games by Frédéric Forestier alongside Gérard Depardieu, again, but also Alain Delon and another Belgian celebrity Jean-Claude Van Damme. Meanwhile, we can see him in France and in Belgium on the 21st September in Entre ses mains by Anne Fontaine, a first dramatic role for this great public entertainer.
A young Belgian actor, Jonathan Zaccai, who had the principal part in the film by Robin Campillo, Les Revenants in official selection at Venice last year, and the acclaimed Bord de Mer (Caméra d'Or, Cannes 2002) by Julie-Lopez Curval with whom he works again on Toi et moi - release set for March 2006. As for his role in Munich, the next film by Steven Spielberg, he confided to the French media : "I am bilingual and I dream of defending European cinema. If I have the opportunity to film in the USA, why not? But I remain European at heart and I don’t believe in the American dream."
(Translated from French)
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