28/09/2005

Portugal, the UK, Hungary, Spain and France : this week's releases highlight European production which represents 8 out of the13 features starting out today in French cinemas. Topping the bill areGabrielle [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Patrice Chéreau (read interview) with Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory and Claudia Coli. Projected in official competition at the recent Venice Mostra (see article), the film has a strong total of 130 prints put in place by Mars Distribution. Two other French productions with high hopes also make their debuts this Wednesday on the screens. Warner comes out with 302 prints Les âmes grises [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Yves Angelo, an Epithète Films production interpreted by Jean-Pierre Marielle, Denis Podalydès, Marina Hands and Jacques Villeret in his first role. For its part, SND brought out the big guns with 495 prints for the costume drama Il ne faut jurer de rien by Eric Civanyan with Gérard Jugnot, Jean Dujardin and Mélanie Doutey.

Five days after its arrival en masse on British screens (readnews), the French-British co-production Revolver by Guy Ritchie with Jason Staham and Ray Liotta will hit 201 screens in France, a distribution handled by its French producer EuropaCorp. As for the British-Canadian co-production headed by Vertigo Films, Frankie Wilde by Michael Dowse, it has been launched by Equation on 12 prints.

The South of the old continent also finds its way into the french theatres since Gémini Films (FR) releases10 prints of the Portuguese feature Alice [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Marco Martins
interview: Nuno Lopes
film profile] by Marco Martins with Nuno Lopez and Beatriz Batarda, a film presented at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight (read le compte-rendu). And DMVB Films is giving the light of day to one copy of Galindez by Gerardo Herrero (see the making of), adaptation of a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and interpreted notably by Harvey Keitel.

Finally, Eastern Europe is represented by Hungarian Kornel Mundruczo whose first feature Pleasant days [+see also:
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film profile] with Tamas Polgar and Orsi Toth, winner at Locarno in 2002, finally arrives in the French theatres with six prints, distribution handled by CTV International.

(Translated from French)