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RELEASES France

406 screens for Fauteuils d'orchestre

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Three majority French productions are arriving in cinemas this week, to establish a strong presence of domestic films at the box office. The main French hope at the box office, after the previously successful La Bûche (1999) and Jet Lag (2002), is Danièle Thompson’s Fauteuils d'orchestre [+see also:
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(see the news), which is being released on an ambitious 406 screens Mars Distribution . Produced by Thelma Film with a budget of €8.7m (including €1.8m in pre-sales and co-production support from TF1 Films Production), the film is betting on a high-calibre cast (Cécile de France, Valérie Lemercier, Claude Brasseur, Sydney Pollack, Albert Dupontel and Suzanne Flon) and on the writing talent of Thompson, the daughter of filmmaker Gérard Oury and writer of numerous films such as La Grande Vadrouille, La Boum and Queen Margot by Patrice Chéreau. With her son Christopher as co-writer on Fauteuils d'orchestre, the director has chosen this time to interweave the destinies of numerous characters who gravitate towards the Bar des Théâtres de l'avenue Montaigne, just off the Champs-Elysées.

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Also of note this week are the releases of two first features by women, whose projects both received an advance on receipts from the National Film Centre. Produced by Le Bureau Films and screened at the last San Sebastian festival, Sauf le respect que je vous dois [+see also:
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by Fabienne Godet, which brings together well-known names such as Olivier Gourmet, Dominique Blanc, Marion Cotillard and Julie Depardieu, is being distributed on 52 screens by Haut et Court.

La Fabrique de Films is releasing Marock [+see also:
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by Laïla Marrakchi, which was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard (see article) and the 2006 Berlin Festival’s Kinderfilmfest/14plus programme, on 97 screens. Lastly, the minority French co-production Night Watch from Argentina’s Edgardo Cozarinsky will come out on eight screens (distributed by Epicentre Films), and MK2 pays tribute to Krzysztof Kieslowski with the release of The Double Life of Véronique in its restored version, as part as an extensive retrospective on the Polish filmmaker.

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