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French-British quintet on the bill

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Three French and two British features hit theatres today, against a massive contingent of seven new US movies, with a Turkish title rounding out the panorama.

The starting line-up includes two domestic films that received aid from the National Film Centre (CNC) in the form of advance on receipts: You And Me [+see also:
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(Toi et moi) by Julie Lopes Curval (Caméra d'Or winner at Cannes 2002 with Seaside) and Le temps des porte-plumes [+see also:
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(lit. "The Time of the Pen-Holder") by Daniel Duval, who returns behind the camera after a 23-year absence.

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Starring Julie Depardieu, Marion Cotillard and Jonathan Zaccaï, Lopes Curval’s second feature, produced by Sombrero (see article), is being distributed on an impressive 170 prints by Pyramide while Le temps des porte-plumes, an Elia Films production starring Jean-Paul Rouve, Anne Brochet, Annie Girardot and Denis Podalydès, will come out on 213 screens (TFM Distribution ). French cinema is also represented this week by Eric Atlan,’s Little Capone [+see also:
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, distributed on 37 screens by the Carrère Group.

There is an African flavour to the two British films on this week’s menu, with Michael Caton-Jones’s trip to Rwanda in Shooting Dogs [+see also:
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(see news), a German co-production released on 40 screens by Haut et Court, while Cameroon is the setting for the documentary Sisters in Law, directed by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi, which was screened at last year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, won awards from both the AFCAE (Association of French Arthouse and Experimental Cinemas) and the CICAE (International Confederation of Arthouse and Experimental Cinemas), and is being launched today on 30 screens by Ad Vitam.

Also of note are the Europeans present in Hollywood productions, including Mikael Hafström, the Swedish director behind US film Derailed (starring Vincent Cassel and Clive Owen), and Gérard Depardieu’s turn alongside Queen Latifah in Wayne Wang’s The Last Holiday.

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(Translated from French)

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