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RELEASES Italy

Don’t start the revolution without me

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Woody Allen’s second “British” film, Scoop (co-produced by BBC Films), is being released on 360 screens in Italy by Medusa Film.

Challenging Allen’s comical noir film is master French filmmaker Claude Chabrol with Comedy of Power [+see also:
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(L'Ivresse du pouvoir), a political thriller starring one of European cinemas greatest actresses, Isabelle Huppert (released on 45 screens). Eva Joly, the judge in the “Elf Affair” attacked Chabrol for the explicit references to her private life in the film.

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However, the true surprise of the weekend lies in small Romanian film 12:08 East of Bucharest [+see also:
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interview: Corneliu Porumboiu
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, winner of the 2006 Camera d'Or at Cannes and deemed by Marco Bellocchio "a small masterpiece".

Sixteen years after the live television broadcast that on December 22, 1989 announced the fall of Ceausescu, in a small Romanian town the head of the local television channel invites two of the protagonists of the historical assault on city hall to his studio. The theme of the broadcast: was there or wasn’t there a revolution?

"At the time,” explains director Corneliu Porumbiou with great irony,” I was 13 and playing ping-pong, then I saw what was happening on TV. My film speaks of marginalisation, I wanted to look at what had happened in the small towns of Romania to those who tried to be a part of history”.

Unfortunately, the film will be distributed on only seven screens by Istituto Luce – yet another example of the limits in distributing quality European films.

Another European release is Princesas [+see also:
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by Fernando Leòn de Aranoa, a colourful story of prostitutes who dream of a better future in a Madrid captured in the "cinema verité" style.

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(Translated from Italian)

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