01/12/2010

In Berlin today, the 10th French Film Week will open with a screening of Bruno Chiche’s Small World, starring Alexandra Maria Lara (the event’s patron), Gérard Depardieu, Françoise Fabian, Niels Arestrup and Nathalie Baye.

Ten films will have their Berlin premiere in the three Yorck group movie theatres hosting the event (Cinéma Paris, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain and, for the first time this year, Passage Kino, in the Neukölln area). Other titles include Mathieu Amalric’s Cannes award-winner On Tour [+see also:
film review
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interview: Mathieu Amalric
interview: Mathieu Amalric
film profile]; Jean Becker’s My Afternoons With Marguerite [+see also:
trailer
film profile], also starring Depardieu; With Love From the Age of Reason [+see also:
trailer
film profile], featuring Sophie Marceau; and two documentaries: Coline Serreau’s Think Global, Act Rural, about the preservation of soil quality, and Frederick Wiseman’s La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet [+see also:
trailer
film profile].

The event will close on December 8 with Xavier Beauvois’s Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner Of Gods and Men [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Xavier Beauvois
film profile].

French Film Week is an initiative by the French Embassy and the French Institute in Germany, in collaboration with the Yorck group, Unifrance and a series of media and commercial partners.