22/10/2010

This evening, Pierre Salvadori’s Full Treatment (see news) will open the 32nd Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, which will close on October 30 with François Ozon’s Potiche [+see also:
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In official selection, 49 films will screen in competition (features, shorts and documentaries) and 51 films in the Panorama (features, shorts and experimental films). The event’s line-up also includes homages and retrospectives dedicated to Carmen Maura, Marco Ferreri, Ronit Elkabetz, Hiam Abbas and Dario Argento.

Among the 12 features in competition are Italian director Paolo Virzi’s The First Beautiful Thing [+see also:
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interview: Vardis Marinakis
film profile] by Greece’s Vardis Marinakis; Reha Erdem’sTurkish/Bulgarian co-production Kosmos [+see also:
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Among the avant-premieres, highlights include four French films: Angelo Cianci’s Top Floor, Left Wing (see news); Audrey Estrougo’s Toi, Moi, Les Autres (“You, Me, The Others”, see news); Philippe Le Guay’s Service Entrance; and Michel Leclerc’s The Names of Love [+see also:
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Also in the programme are Eran Riklis’s Israeli/German/French/Romanian co-production The Human Resources Manager (winner of the Audience Award at Locarno); Kiss Me Again [+see also:
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Interview Sabina Guzzanti [IT]
film profile] by fellow Italian director Sabina Guzzanti; Portuguese maestro Manoel de Oliveira’s The Strange Case of Angelica [+see also:
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The festival is also hosting a Panorama including four Spanish features: Carlos Martín Ferrera’s Suspicious Minds, Ventura Pons’s A la Dériva, David Marqués’s Desechos and Elisa K. [+see also:
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film profile] by directorial duo Judith Colell and Jordi Cadena. They are joined by four Italian titles: Massimo Coppola’s Afraid of the Dark (Bruises) [+see also:
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interview: Rocco Papaleo
film profile], Edoardo Leo’s 18 Years Later [+see also:
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film profile] and Marco Righi’s Days of Harvest. Finally, the bumper line-up includes 4 Black Suits by Greece’s Renos Haralambidis, Motel Nana by Serbia’s Predrag Velinovic and Vavien by Turkey’s Durul and Yagmur Taylan.

(Translated from French)