15/06/2009

Austrian director Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winner The White Ribbon [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Michael Haneke
film profile] and Cannes Jury Prize-winner Fish Tank [+see also:
film review
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interview: Andrea Arnold
film profile] by the UK’s Andrea Arnold (see interview) shine among the 30 avant-premières showing out of competition at the 7th Paris Cinéma (July 2-14).

Unveiled last Friday, the line-up for the event presided by Charlotte Rampling includes other titles fresh from the Croisette. These are Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s French/Belgian co-production The Time that Remains [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Father of My Children [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mia Hansen-Løve
film profile] by France’s Mia Hansen-Løve, Alain Cavalier’s Irene [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Axelle Ropert’s The Wolberg Family [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Alain Guiraudie’s The King of Escape [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Lisandro Alonso’s European co-production Liverpool and Hippolyte Girardot and Nobuhiro Suwa’s Yuki and Nina [+see also:
trailer
film profile].

The rich 2009 programme will also enable Parisian cinemagoers to discover Austrian director Wolfgang Murnberger’s The Bone Man, Roberto Castón’s Spanish feature Ander [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Belgian filmmaker Micha Wald’s Simon Koniansky, Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Portugal’s Manoel de Oliviera, Semih Kaplanoglu’s Turkish/German/French co-production Milk [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] and UK director Stephen Daldry’s The Reader [+see also:
trailer
film profile].

French productions also put in an appearance with Christian Carion’s Farewell [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Bruno Podalydès’ Bancs Publics (Versailles Rive Droite) [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (“Public Benches, Versailles Right Bank”), Claude Miller’s documentary Marching Band, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann’s He Is My Girl, Gabriel Julien-La Ferrière’s Neuilly sa mère (“Neuilly Her Mother”) and Ivan Calbérac’s Alternate Weeks (and Half the Vacation).

Twelve features will screen in competition, including French director Emmanuel Salinger’s La Grande Vie (“The High Life”), Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy’s UK/Irish co-production Helen, Calimucho by Holland’s Eugenie Jansen, Alexis Dos Santos’ UK production Unmade Beds [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Puccini and the Girl by Italian duo Paola Baroni and Paolo Benvenuti, and Eran Merav’s Israeli/French co-production Zion and His Brother [+see also:
trailer
film profile].

Paris Cinéma will this year pay homage to Claudia Cardinale, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Tsaï Ming-liang, producer Lluis Miñarro (Eddie Saeta Production) and Turkish cinema.

A new addition is the Nuit du Cinéma (“Cinema Night”), to be held on Saturday, July 4. There will also be the usual Paris CinéMômes section for younger viewers and the Paris Project co-production platform (June 6-9).

(Translated from French)