27/02/2013 - Oscar-winning Jean Dujardin is back in an ambitious film directed by Eric Rochant. Also on this week's programme, Boule et Bill and Gli Equilibristi

The " Möbius band" is a ring with only one side and only one rim: if you start from the inner side, you arrive at the outer side with crossing any edge. In the movie world, the structures of Lost Highway by David Lynch and Timecrimes by Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo have often been compared to this toplogical figure. For Eric Rochant, who has adopted the title of Möbius [+see also:
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Inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock movie Notorious, this feature film is characterized by its international ambitions, entrusted to a top-notch cast (Oscar-winning Jean Dujardin, Belgian actresses Cécile de France and Emile Dequenne, British actor Tim Roth) and a complex scenario which has the Russian agent Moïse recruit and infiltrate a brilliant trader in the entourage of an oligarch suspected of money laundering. But love is stalking in the background, in a word in which all the traps of worldwide espionnage are on the agenda. A cocktail to the taste of some members of the French press, even if the mixture of genres (symbolized by a Dujardin - Grégory Lioubov speaking Russian) and the project's outsize dimensions have left a number of crtics somewhat dubious.

The other massive release (StudioCanal on 801 screens) this Wednesday can be credited to the French-Belgian-Luxemburg movie Boule et Bill [+see also:
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European but Non-French cinema has been given attention by the press with Gli Equilibristi [+see also:
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Also on the bill, Hyde Park on Hudson [+see also:
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(Translated from French)