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Match time for Woody

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Match Point, Woody Allen’s first ‘London movie’ is hitting the screens today under Icon Film Distributors' banner, with 130 venues across the UK.
Hailed at the last Cannes Film Festival as Allen’s return to form, the film backed by BBC Films will certainly seduce Londoners with its beautiful shots of familiar spots in Marylebone, Chelsea and the City and strong performances from UK actor Jonathan Rhys Meyer and US starlet Scarlett Johansson. Allen will face stiff competition from Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain released nationwide by Entertainment Film Distributors this week following its London West-End platform opening on December 30th.
Those two multi-Golden Globe nominated films will play for the sophisticated adult urban audience, the same one that could have embraced during the Christmas holidays another awards favourite, the French Merry Christmas by Christian Carion but unfortunately didn’t (the film released by Sony has not even reached the £100,000 cap in three weeks).

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Today’s two new European releases also carried by positive reviews and exposure at major international film festivals will avoid this kind of disappointment by opening on a much smaller scale. The French/Georgian film 13(Tzameti) [+see also:
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by first-time director Gela Babluani, winner of the ‘Lion of the Future Award’ at the last Venice Film Festival, is being released by Revolver Entertainment in five cinemas, four in London and one in Dublin. The son of well-known Georgian filmmaker Temur Babluani took part in two Q&A sessions in London last Wednesday and is now heading for Sundance where 13 (Tzameti) will screen in competition.
As for French film Exils by Tony Gatlif, winner of a Best Director Award at Cannes 2004, the film is being platformed by Swipe Films in one cinema, at the French Institute’s Cine-Lumiere.

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