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RELEASES France

A comic start to summer

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An impressive six French productions hit French screens this Wednesday. The first week of summer gives pride of place to comedies, with Emmanuel Mouret's Change of Address [+see also:
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first in line. Well received at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight (see article), the film, produced by Moby Dick Films in co-production with Les Films Pelléas and les Films Velvet, is being released on 80 screens by Shellac.

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Starring the director alongside Shooting Star Fanny Valette (see interview), Frédérique Bel, Dany Brillant and Ariane Ascaride, Changement d’adresse – sold internationally by Pyramide – was made for just €1m, in contrast to the €18.1 L'Entente Cordiale [+see also:
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by Vincent de Brus, starring Christian Clavier and Daniel Auteuil, another French comedy being released today by Warner.

Three French/Belgian co-productions are also hitting screens, two of which are directorial debuts: Dikkenek (84% French/16% Belgian; see news), by Olivier von Hoofstadt, will be released on 180 screens by EuropaCorp. Distribution; and teenage comedy Mes copines (lit "My Friends") (70% French, 30% Belgian) by Sylvie Ayme, is being released on 207 screens by Pathé Distribution.

The last of the French/Belgian releases is Comme tout le monde [+see also:
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(lit. "Like Everyone Else") by Pierre-Paul Renders, a Belgian (46%)/Luxembourg (20 %)/French (12%)/Canadian (12 %)/German (10%) co-production being distributed by Rezo Films on 58 prints.

Also opening today is the collective film Paris, je t’aime, which opened the Un Certain Regard selection at this year's Cannes Film Festival (see news from March 8 and May 2). The film is being released on 164 screens by La Fabrique de Films.

Another European film, Swiss documentary La nébuleuse du cœur (lit. "The Heart’s Nebula") by Jacqueline Veuve, completes this deluge of French-Belgian titles against a slight fall in admission figures – down 7% since the beginning of the football World Cup.

French filmmakers are also in the limelight with today’s release of US blockbuster The Hills Have Eyes by young Alexandre Aja, along with two other US productions and two Canadian documentaries.

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(Translated from French)

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