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Les Gazelles and the role of women

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- Also arriving in theatres are Sacro GRA, Harmony Lessons, The Finishers, Layla Fourie and Life of Riley

Les Gazelles and the role of women

After the CNC published a study yesterday on "the role of women in the film and audiovisual industry" (downloadable in French here), which particularly emphasises the fact that 24.8% of films recognised as French in 2012 were directed by female directors (but with a distinctly lower average budget than that of their male colleagues) and that 24.4% of French film production companies are run by women, Paramount Pictures France is today distributing Les Gazelles [+see also:
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in around 250 theatres, a feature labelled by its director, Mona Achache, as a "generational and feminine film".

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Recounting with plenty of humour, but not without a hint of bitterness, the misadventures of a freshly single thirty-year-old woman and her circle of friends, the second feature by the director following The Hedgehog [+see also:
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(2009) stars Camille Chamoux, Audrey Fleurot, Anne Brochet, Naidra Ayadi, Joséphine de Meaux and Olivia Côte. According to Achache, "The harshness of today’s romantic relationships is comparable to the harshness of the world of work. The search for your soul mate has become a matter of supply of demand! These women refuse to be victims of their single status, even if it’s not always their choice and they’re not always happy. They gain strength from it." Produced by Recifilms and co-produced by France 2 Cinéma, among others, Les Gazelles is being sold internationally by Other Angle Pictures.

Human diversity is also being honoured today in the optimistic and moving The Finishers [+see also:
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by Nils Tavernier (starring Jacques Gamblin and Fabien Héraud as they take part in a sports challenge as a father and his disabled son – read the article – distributed by Pathé Films), and through the exploration of the edges of the ring road around Rome with the Golden Lion winner from the 2013 Venice Film Festival: the documentary Sacro GRA [+see also:
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by Gianfranco Rosi (distributed by Alfama Films in 19 theatres).

Three films discovered in competition at Berlin in 2014 and 2013 are also hitting screens: Life of Riley [+see also:
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by the late Alain Resnais (read the review - Le Pacte in 199 cinemas), Harmony Lessons [+see also:
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by Emir Baigazine (read the review – a co-production by Kazakhstan, Germany and France - Arizona Films in 15 theatres) and Layla Fourie [+see also:
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by Pia Marais (read the review – a co-production by Germany, France, the Netherlands and South Africa - Jour2Fête across eight screens).

The line-up is rounded off by The Bag of Flour [+see also:
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by Belgian director Kadija Leclère (read the review – distributed by Mica Films in 15 cinemas), the French production Dodgem by Christophe Karabache (distributed by VisioSfeir), the British-American title Closed Circuit [+see also:
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by John Crowley (UIP France), the Franco-Angentinian co-production El impenetrable by Daniele Incalcaterra and Fausta Quattrini (discovered out of competition at Venice in 2012 – distributed by Les Films d'Ici) and the outstanding documentary Holy Field, Holy War by Lech Kowalski, which looks at the issue of shale gas in Poland (distributed by Revolt Cinema).

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(Translated from French)

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