15/10/2010

Twenty-five French productions or co-productions are in the line-up at the London Film Festival, which opened on Wednesday and will run until October 28. While French films have garnered excellent results on UK screens since the start of 2010 (especially Heartbreaker [+see also:
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Highlights include Guillaume Canet’s highly-anticipated Little White Lies [+see also:
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interview: Gustave Kervern, Benoî…
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This broad cross-generational panorama will also present Isabelle Czajka’s Living On Love Alone [+see also:
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The Gala screening of Xavier Beauvois’s Cannes Grand Prize-winner Of Gods and Men [+see also:
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Eleven directors will accompany their films to the London fest, which will also present five French co-productions: Palme d’Or-winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [+see also:
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(Translated from French)