27/09/2006

While Films Distribution yesterday reported for Cineuropa on positive results for the director’s third feature, Private Property [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (see news), today Cinélibre are releasing Joachim Lafosse’s second feature What Makes You Happy [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fabrizio Rongione
interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile], screened in official competition at Locarno and at the Brussels European Film Festival, where it pocketed the Audience award (see Focus). Despite the film’s success, it will only open on 4 screens.

Meanwhile, last week’s release of Charlotte de Turckheim’s Poor Rich Folks [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Belga Film continues to do very well (see news), with a second French title on release today through Les Films de L'Elysée, Grand Prix Critics Week winner Poison Friends [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Emmanuel Bourdieu (see review).

Rounding off this week of new releases, which is dominated by European productions (seven in total, against four US titles) are La Coopérative Nouveau Cinéma’s release of Hungarian title Dallas Among Us by Robert Adrian Pejo, screened at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section, along with The Way I Spent the End of the World [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Romania’s Catalin Mitulescu, opening on five screens through Benelux Films Distributors.

Imagine Films Distribution are releasing their second European title of the season on seven screens: Danish film Adam's Apples [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Anders Thomas Jensen
interview: Mads Mikkelsen
interview: Tivi Magnusson
film profile] by Anders Thomas Jensen (consult Focus).

(Translated from French)