Avalanche of prestigious avant-premieres at Paris Cinéma

11/06/2010

There’s a Cannes flavour to the 8th Paris Cinéma (July 3-13), whose rich line-up, unveiled yesterday, includes no fewer than 16 features that won acclaim on the Croisette.

Among the seven titles vying for honours in competition are three European films: Romanian director Florian Serban’s If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ada Condeescu
film profile] (Grand Jury Prize at Berlin); Benjamin Heisenberg’s The Robber [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Benjamin Heisenberg
film profile]; and Swiss director Jean-Stéphane Bron’s remarkable documentary Cleveland Versus Wall Street [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jean-Stéphane Bron
film profile] (see review).

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Screening out of competition in avant-premiere are 49 features, including four Cannes victors: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or-winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [+see also:
trailer
film profile]; Xavier Beauvois’s Grand Prize-winning Of Gods and Men [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Xavier Beauvois
film profile]; Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], which scooped the Jury Prize; and Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry.

Europe is particularly well-represented with five Italian films: Ferzan Ozpetek’s Loose Cannons [+see also:
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film profile], Cristiano Bortone’s Red Like the Sky [+see also:
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film profile], Gabriele Muccino’s Kiss Me Again [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], Silvio Soldini’s What More Do I Want [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] and Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love [+see also:
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interview: Luca Guadagnino - director
film profile].

Spain will put in an appearance with Antonio Naharro and Alvaro Pastor’s Me Too [+see also:
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film profile], Isabel Coixet’s Map of the Sounds of Tokyo [+see also:
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film profile] and Daniel Monzon’s Cell 211 [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Daniel Monzón
film profile].

The showcase also includes German titles Everyone Else [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Maren Ade
film profile] by Maren Ade, Orly [+see also:
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film profile] by Angela Schanelec and The Eagle Hunter’s Son by René Bo Hansen (co-produced with Sweden); Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish film Submarino [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Vinterberg
film profile]; Double Take by Belgium’s Johan Grimonprez; Berlin Golden Bear-winner Honey [+see also:
film review
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interview: Semih Kaplanoglu
film profile] by Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu; Wild Target by UK director Jonathan Lynn; and Ondine [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Ireland’s Neil Jordan.

The prestigious line-up is completed by several unreleased French titles, including Yann Samuel’s With Love...From the Age of Reason (see news); Manuel Pradal’s The Blonde With Bare Breasts (see news); Gabriel Le Bomin’s Beyond Suspicion (see news); Angelo Cianci’s Dernier Etage, Gauche, Gauche (“Top Floor, Left, Left”, see news); and Isabelle Czajka’s Living on Love Alone (see news).

Paris Cinéma will this year pay homage to M. Night Shyamalan, Jane Fonda, Eugène Green and Louis Garrel, as well as to Japanese cinema. It will also host several events, including Nuit du Cinéma (“Cinema Night”), and the co-production platform Paris Project (July 5-7).

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(Translated from French)