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ANOTHER
MAN /UN AUTRE HOMME (15)
Director Lionel Baier
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Inverness
Eden Court 19 November 6.30pm
Aberdeen, The Belmont 22 november
4.00pm
Edinburgh Filmhouse 27 November 6.00pm
Glasgow Film Theatre 28 November 6.30pm |
This is an intriguing psychological
drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for
the charms of a well-established female colleague. In the course
of the relationship the director Lionel Baier offers a challenging
look at the essence of film criticism as well as an erotic encounter
between two un-equals. François moves with his respectable
girlfriend to Vallée de Joux, where she teaches at a
secondary school. He finds a job as film critic with the local
paper, where he thinks he can raise the level of reporting by
writing film reviews with a high level of analysis. In reality,
he copies them from a highbrow Paris magazine and is guilty
of plagiarism. Then he meets Rosa, a celebrated film reviewer
with a respected newspaper who is out to get the newcomer. An
erotic game starts in which Rosa is the manipulative spider
spinning a merciless web for him. Baier, who says that this
film is his most personal, resorts to film noir, but gives his
own twist to this game of desire and deception. He is primarily
interested in the harsh, insensitive sides of desire, which
are expressed in the film in sharp contrasts between city and
countryside, truth and lies, lust and love.
With the support
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Cast
Robin Harsch, Natacha Koutchoumov, Elodie Weber, Georges-Henri
Dépraz, Brigitte Jordan, Olivia Csiky Trnka, Bulle Ogier
Director Lionel Baier
2008. 89 mins
Int. Sales Wide Management
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THE
FIRST STAR /LA PREMIÈRE ETOILE (15)
Director Lucien Jean-Baptiste |
Glasgow
Film Theatre 24 November 12.45pm
St Andrews NPH 5 December 2.00pm |
| Jean-Gabriel lives with wife Suzy
and three children on the outskirts of Paris. Despite his modest
income, Jean-Gabriel still has money to buy drinks and bet on
the horses. One day, he promises his daughter that he will take
the whole family on a skiing holiday. Although Jean-Gabriel
is clearly unable to afford such an excursion, his wife gives
him an ultimatum – if he breaks his promise, she will
leave him. Raising questions of family, displacement, racism,
and the construction of national and ethnic identity, the film
moves swiftly from the West Indies to the snowy peaks. A huge
box office hit, it marks the directorial debut by actor and
dubbing artist Lucien Jean-Baptiste, and is set in the 1980s.
Jean-Baptiste plays the father who makes a bet with his wife
(Anne Consigny) that he will be able to supervise the skiing
holiday with their children. This challenge leads to an eventful
sojourn for the French-West Indian family who use their resourcefulness
to adapt to the white world of the ski slopes. |
Cast
Firmine Richard, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Anne Consigny, Michel
Jonasz, Bernadette Lafont, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Jimmy Woha
Woha, Ludovic François, Loreyna Colombo, Gilles Benizio
Director Lucien Jean-Baptiste
2008. 90 mins
Int. Sales Other Angle Pictures
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VERSAILLES
(18)
Director Pierre Schoeller |
London
Ciné Lumière 12 November 8.40pm
Edinburgh Filmhouse 17 November 8.45pm
MacRobert Stirling 19 November 7.30pm
Dundee DCA 20 November 6.00pm |
| Debut writer-director Pierre Schoeller
uses the device of an abandoned child to explore true sentiment
rather than mere sentimentality in a sort of Gallic take on
Cathy Comes Home. A young destitute mother (Judith Chemia),
who lives on the streets with her five-year-old son (Max Baissette
de Malglaive), comes across a vagabond (Guillaume Depardieu),
who inhabits a makeshift hut in the woods near Versailles Palace.
Despite his own homelessness, she sees in the man a kindness
and probably a greater sense of responsibility than he himself
imagines. After spending the night with him, she vanishes, leaving
behind her boy. A season changes, and the man and boy bond.
Just how they resolve the conundrum of the relationship and
their future only the film will tell. Versailles marks one of
the final screen appearances of Guillaume Depardieu who died
in October 2008. |
Cast
Guillaume Depardieu, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Judith Chemla,
Aure Atika, Patrick Descamps, Matteo Giovannetti, Brigitte Sy,
Franc Bruneau, Philippe
Director Pierre Schoeller
2008. 113 mins
Int. Sales Les Films de Losange
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ELDORADO
(15)
Director Bouli Lanners |
Inverness
Eden Court 21 November 5.45pm
Dundee
DCA 29 November 8.00pm
Glasgow Film Theatre
1 December 8.40pm
Edinburgh Filmhouse
3 December 8.45pm
Cornerhouse Manchester
5 December 6.00pm |
Bouli Lanners wrote the script and
stars as Yvan, an overweight and unkempt car dealer who arrives
home one night to discover that an incompetent young burglar
named Elie (Fabrice Adde) has broken in. Weary and philosophical,
Yvan does not call the police and ends up consoling the intruder,
who says he only needed money to make his way home to see his
mother (Francoise Chicery). Still grieving over the death by
overdose of his younger brother, Yvan knows a smack-head when
he sees one, and after a couple of mishaps he agrees to give
Elie a ride. Never has Belgium appeared so spacious, as the
two of them set off for the border with France, crossing vast
areas of farmland and rushing waters.
Screening with VANILLE
(17 mins) |
Cast
Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde, Philippe Nahon, Didier Toupy, Françoise
Chichéry, Stefan Liberski, Baptiste Isaïa, Jean-Jacques
Rausin, Renaud Rutten, Jean-Luc Meekers
Director
Bouli Lanners
2008. 85 mins
Int. Sales Films
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GROWN
UPS /LES GRANDES PERSONNES (15)
Director Anna Novion |
Edinburgh
Filmhouse 24 November 8.45pm
Warwick
Arts Centre 21 November 6.30pm
Glasgow
Film Theatre 30 November 6.00pm
Cornerhouse
Manchester 3 December 6.00pm |
| Single father Albert (Jean-Pierre
Darroussin) likes to take his daughter Jeanne (Anaïs Demoustier)
on vacation trips across Europe every year. Although she tags
along, those journeys are less designed for her than to fulfill
Albert’s own interests, including an adolescent passion
for treasure hunting. For her 17th birthday, he takes her to
Sweden (the director is of Franco- Swedish origin) to look for
the lost treasure of a famous Viking. Upon arrival, they realise
that the house they have rented is already occupied by Annika
and Christine. This sudden change of plans destabilises Albert’s
well organised vacation, to the sheer delight of his daughter,
who opens up to a new world through the presence of these two
emancipated women. Albert proves to be an affectionate but fussy
and pedantic father unwilling to allow his daughter to explore
her adolescent longings. Jeanne, naturally enough, is becoming
interested in boys, and there are plenty on the scene to satisfy
that interest. |
Cast
Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anaïs Demoustier, Lia Boysen, Jakob
Eklund, Björn Gustafsson, Judith Henry, Anastasios Soulis
Director Anna Novion
2008. 84 mins
Int. Sales Memento
Films International
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NEUILLY,
YO MAMA /NEUILLY, SA MÈRE (12)
Director Gabriel Julien-Laferrière |
Edinburgh
Filmhouse 16 November 2.30pm/6.15pm
Glasgow Film Theatre 23 November 8.30pm |
| Samy Seghir plays an Arab teen from
one of the suburbs who moves in among the blond-haired, blue-eyed,
foie gras-eating set, in director Gabriel Julien- Laferriere's
debut feature. The director manages to sustain the laughs and
peppers the proceedings with cameos by several Gallic comedians
among them Valerie Lemercier and Josiane Balasko. Sami, although
he enjoys a bit of rough and tumble with his mates, is a rather
sweet and studious youngster. When his mum (Farida Khelfa) gets
a job on a transatlantic cruise ship, he's forced to move in
with his aunt (Rachida Brakni) and uncle (Denis Podalydes) in
the swanky Parisian quartier of Neuilly. Sami is forced to face
up to his over-privileged and extremely overzealous teenage
cousin, Charles (Jeremy Denisty), whose one ambition is to grow
up to be the next Nicolas Sarkozy. Sami's other nemesis is the
elitist private school he transfers into, whose students are
either bullying, wannabe white rappers (Mathieu Spinosi) or
else brainy blondes such as Marie (Josephine Japy), who satisfies
his adolescent obsession with actress Charlize Theron. More
than one million people have seen the film and it became a cultural
phenomenon over the summer. Sarkozy who is usually sensitive
to mockery, said that he planned to see the film. Pierre, his
eldest son who is a pop music producer in Neuilly and is imitated
in the film, said that he enjoyed it. |
Cast
Samy Seghir, Denis Podalydès, Rachida Brakni, Jérémy
Denisty, Joséphine Japy, Mathieu Spinosi
Director Gabriel Julien-Laferrière
2009. 909 mins
Int. Sales Other Angle Pictures
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