30/08/2006

Some gems from Cannes feature among this week’s new releases.

First up is Martine Doyen’s debut feature, which screened in this year’s Critics’ Week selection (see article) and takes Belgian singer Arno on a journey between fantasy and reality.

Co-scripted by the film’s lead actress, Valérie Lemaître, in the form of a fairy tale, Komma [+see also:
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A beautiful, albeit at times unbalanced, attempt in a film that owes much of its success to Arno, whose bruised body and tender face fill the film with a disenchanted grace.

Distributed by Cinéart-Cinélibre, this French/Belgian co-production (OF2B)/(La Parti Production) is being sold internationally by Germany’s Bavaria Film International.

Also among this week’s eight new releases are three French titles: horror/thriller Them [+see also:
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Imagine Film Distribution is releasing one of its European trump cards in four theatres: Hungarian title Taxidermia [+see also:
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(Translated from French)