Bolero lets The Right One out
It could be called the anti-Twilight, if not for the fact that the director of Let the Right One In [+see also:
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After a successful release in America, where it earlier won the Audience Award at the Tribeca festival, Let the Right One In will come out in the UK on December 19 and then between January and February, 2009 also in France, Spain, Finland, Romania, Switzerland, Norway, Greece, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark and other countries throughout the world.
Based on the bestseller by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay, the film tells the romantic, mournful and shadowy love story between a young boy enthralled with the macabre and a young and gentle vampire girl thirsty for human blood.
Straying from the book’s main theme, paedophilia - "which today it is too often used to give stories an emotional special effect without being thoroughly examined," said Alfredson – the film offers several levels of interpretation, from social metaphor to mysticism and pure horror entertainment (betraying, however, certain classical vampire norms).
Thanks to distribution support from the MEDIA Programme, the newly founded Bolero is releasing the film on 100 screens with a marketing campaign that features two different posters: one for more specialized film audiences and one for the general public.
"We are an independent distributor looking for films with great artistic and entertainment value ", says Andrea Cirla di Bolero. The company’s first film, Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor, is already out in Italian theatres. Upcoming titles from the distributor include Nacho G. Veilla’s Chef’s Special [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)
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