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RELEASES Belgium

From Buenos Aires to Boulogne-sur-mer in The Tango Singer

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Many Belgian distributors seem to have held back this week, as they wait for the girly tidal wave of Sex and the City 2 to subside. There are nonetheless two European productions in the line-up to tempt stray viewers.

Paradiso is releasing a five-print run of Michael Winterbottom’s annual offering. After last year’s sensitive and limited-audience Genova [+see also:
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, and the previous year’s more politically-engaged and mainstream A Mighty Heart, the director returns with an “adaptation” of journalist Naomi Klein’s eponymous essay The Shock Doctrine [+see also:
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Using original footage, Winterbottom tries to illustrate the theory of “disaster capitalism” set out by Klein, which posits that the supporters of global ultraliberalism work together to profit from crisis situations (terrorist attacks, wars, natural disasters) by secretly imposing economic and political strategies that spark revolt in times of peace. This isn’t Winterbottom’s first foray into documentaries, for in 2006, he and his collaborator Mat Whitecross explored one of these crises in The Road to Guantanamo [+see also:
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This week’s other European release is a Belgian production: The Tango Singer [+see also:
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by Belgian-based Argentinean director Diego Martinez Vignatti. This film is above all an ode, tailor-made for Eugenia Ramirez Miori, who sings, dances and lives the tango. It centres on a tango singer who is about to fulfil her artistic and professional dream, when she is suddenly struck down by heartache. In order to let go, she chooses exile.

The Tango Singer, which was selected in competition at Locarno last summer, was produced by Tarantula, in co-production with Minds Meet (Flanders), Mobilis Productions (France) and De Productie. The film is being released by Cinéart on five screens.

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(Translated from French)

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