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Van Rompaey’s Lena looks for love

Unlikely love affairs, naturalism and portraits of women clearly seem to be the major sources of inspiration in the early career of Belgian director Christophe Van Rompaey. After Moscow, Belgium,...  

16/12/2011 | Festivals | France/Netherlands/Belgium

Death of a Superhero: the circle of life and the broken hourglass

During adolescence, flirting with danger is a relatively common temptation, but 15-year-old Donald, the main character in the majority German production Death of a Superhero has a much deeper...  

15/12/2011 | Festivals | France/Germany/Ireland

Headwinds in a favourable climate

After a spectacularly busy period in November with 25.9m admissions (+34.4% compared to the same month in 2010) which brought the total for the first 11 months of the year to 191.3m viewers (a 2%...  

14/12/2011 | Releases | France

One Minute of Darkness (Three Lives): an escaped convict in the forest

German director Christoph Hochhäusler has been a regular at major festivals since his debut with This Very Moment in the Berlinale Forum 2003, followed by his two selections in the Un Certain...  

14/12/2011 | Festivals | France/Germany

Extraterrestrial: "We’ll stick together, at all costs"

Having attracted attention with his debut feature Timecrimes, Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo confirms his potential with the sharp and playful Extraterrestrial, which screened in competition...  

13/12/2011 | Festivals | France/Spain

Gypsy: chronicle of a tragedy

"A gypsy can’t live like other human beings." Plunging into the heart of a small Romanian village populated by 2,000 Romany people, Gypsy, the seventh narrative feature by Slovakian director...  

13/12/2011 | Festivals | France/Slovakia

Les Arcs: Kormakur, Hajdu and Cipri at Work In Progress

The first images from seven European features were unveiled yesterday at the new Work In Progress event organised by Les Arcs European Film Festival (December 10-17). About a hundred distributors,...  

12/12/2011 | Festivals | France

Casanova meets Dracula in Story of My Death

Selected in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2006 and 2008 with Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) and Birdsong, Catalan director Albert Serra (pictured) wraps shooting in France today on Story of...  

09/12/2011 | Production | France/Spain

Les Arcs propels European cinema to the peaks

Screening in competition, Cédric Kahn’s A Better Life will tomorrow open the 3rd Les Arcs European Film Festival, which has quickly established itself in the panorama of international events, as...  

09/12/2011 | Festivals | France

Untouchable proves unstoppable

With 12.06m admissions in five weeks, i.e. €74m in estimated box-office takings, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache’s comedy Untouchable (see review) is emerging not only as the big hit of 2011 in...  

08/12/2011 | Box Office | France

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