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Pathé releases Beauty and the Beast across 566 cinemas

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- Also being released with press backing are Ida, Longwave, Abuse of Weakness and For Those in Peril

Pathé releases Beauty and the Beast across 566 cinemas

While 2014 got off to a great start thanks to cinema attendance being up by 22.8% in January in comparison with the same month in 2013 (according to the CNC’s estimates), 14 new titles are coming out this Wednesday, including a flurry of excellent European movies.

The star attraction of the day in terms of box-office expectations is the Franco-German co-production Beauty and the Beast [+see also:
trailer
making of
interview: Christophe Gans
interview: Léa Seydoux
interview: Vincent Cassel
film profile
]
by Christophe Gans (see the making of [+see also:
trailer
making of
interview: Christophe Gans
interview: Léa Seydoux
interview: Vincent Cassel
film profile
]
), starring Léa Seydoux (see the video interview) and Vincent Cassel (see the interview [+see also:
trailer
making of
interview: Christophe Gans
interview: Léa Seydoux
interview: Vincent Cassel
film profile
]
). Released by Pathé across 566 screens, the film (which secured the approval of the critics for its visual achievements but divided them on everything else) will also be screened out of competition at the Berlinale on Friday.

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On the other hand, the press has fallen unanimously under the spell of the splendid Ida [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
film profile
]
by Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski (Memento Films Distribution on 88 screens).

Four other European films are also being backed very strongly by the critics: Longwave [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Lionel Baier
festival scope
film profile
]
, by Swiss director Lionel Baier (which was popular at Locarno and was co-produced by French firm Les Films PelléasHappiness Distribution on 45 screens); Abuse of Weakness [+see also:
trailer
interview: Catherine Breillat
film profile
]
by Catherine Breillat (read the interview – starring Isabelle Huppert and Kool Shen - Rezo on 54 screens); For Those in Peril [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: George Mackay
film profile
]
by English director Paul Wright (revealed during the 2013 Cannes International Critics’ Week and initially released on VoD as part of the European TIDE experiment - DistriB Films on seven screens); and the Austrian feature The Shine of Day [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Rainer Frimmel
film profile
]
by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (see the video interview – winner of the Best Actor Award at Locarno in 2012 - Zootrope on 14 screens).

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(Translated from French)

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