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their new president, Nicolas Sarkozy has shut himself away in his home. Even though he knows he has won the battle, he is gloomy and looks despondent in his dressing gown. All day long, he has been trying to get in touch with Cecilia — to no avail. Star 1
CORPO CELESTE (Italy) Drama, 100mins. Rai Trade Department. Dir: Alice Rohrwacher. Key cast: Anita Caprioli, Salvatore Cantalupo, Yle Vianello. Set deep in the south of Italy, ‘Corpo Celeste’ is the story of 13-year-old Marta, who is struggling to resettle after 10 years growing up in Switzerland. Bright-eyed and restless, she observes the sights, sounds and smells of the city but feels very much an outsider. Palais G
JOURNEY OF NO RETURN (VOYAGE SANS RETOUR) (France) Action/ adventure, 100mins. Lumierebro Productions. Dir: Francois Gerard. Key Cast: Samuel Le Bihan, Samy Nacery, Serge Riaboukine. A Western youngster being trained in terrorists camps in Afghanistan returns home. Lerins 2
THE KID WITH A BIKE (LE GAMIN AU VELO) (Belgium) Drama, 87mins. Wild Bunch.
Dir: Jean Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne. Key cast: Cecile De France. Sick of waiting for a father who has placed him in a children’s home after promising to come back for him, 11-year- old Cyril runs away and returns to the apartment where they lived together. He knocks at the door — no answer. Pursued by youth workers from the home, Cyril seeks refuge in a medical office located on the ground floor. Unable to escape his pursuers, he rushes into the arms of a young woman sitting in the waiting room. Star 2
LITTLE PEA (NOKHODY) (Iran) Children’s, 86mins. Farabi Cinema Foundation. Dir: Jalal Fatemi. Key cast: Saber Abar, Abolfazl Montahayie, Marzieh Boroumand. A puppet theatre director finds no place to present his works because the foreign films have grasped the national audience. So he departs for the land of the fairy tales. Palais E
OSLO, AUGUST 31ST (Norway) Drama, 96mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Joachim Trier. Key cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olaf Brenner, Ingrid Olava. Arcades 3
OUR OWN OSLO (Iceland) Romance, 97mins. Ljosband Ehf. Dir: Reynir Lyngdal. Laddi, Brynhildur Gudjonsdottir, Hilmir Snaer Gudnason. Harald, whose life is over- controlled, has a romantic weekend with Vilborg, whose life is out of control. They meet back in Iceland for a holiday that changes both their lives. Palais I
PROJECTION DE COURTS TUNISIENS Chambre Syndicale Nationale Des Producteurs De Films- Utica. Gray 3
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ISTANBUL EXPRESS 75mins. Semaine De La Critique. Miramar
THE MINISTER (France) Drama, 112mins. Doc & Film International. Dir: Pierre Schoeller. Key cast: Michel Blanc, Olivier Gourmet, Zabou Breitman. Salle Debussy
THE MURDERER (THE YELLOW SEA) See box, below
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BLUE BIRD (Belgium) Drama, 86mins. Dir: Gust Van Den Berghe. Key cast: Bafiokadie Potey, Tene Potey, Nanty Liberia Bani. Arcades 1
CALYPSO ROSE, THE LIONESS OF THE JUNGLE (Trinidad & Tobago) 90mins. Dynamo Production. Palais B
EARLY ONE MORNING (DE BON MATIN) (France) Drama, 90mins. Les Films Du Losange. Dir: Jean-Marc Moutout. Key Cast: Jean-Pierre Daroussin, Laurent Delbecq, Valerie Dreville. Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o’clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks himself in his office. As he waits for the inevitable police assault, this ordinary man looks back over his life and the events that led him to commit such an act. Star 3
HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI (Japan) Drama, 126mins. Hanway Films. Dir: Takashi Miike. Key cast: Ebizo Ichikawa, Eita, Koji Yakusho. Grand Theatre Lumiere
HEAT WAVE (APRES LE SUD) (France) Drama, 92mins. Visit Films. Dir: Jean-Jacques Jauffret. Key cast: Adele Haenel, Sylvie Lachat, Ulysse Grosjean. Theatre Croisette
HERE COMES THE RAIN (Lebanon) Drama, 98mins. Pacha Pictures. Dir: Bahij Hojeij. Kidnapped during the war, a man is released years after. The world has changed, and for him and his wife and kids to start again living together is an everyday challenge. He is a different man. Puzzled by his regular vanishments from the house, his wife decides to follow him. Lerins 1
MELANCHOLIA (Denmark) Drama, 130mins. Trustnordisk. Dir: Lars von Trier. Key cast: Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Salle Du Soixantieme
VENICE (WENECJA) (Poland) Drama, 120Mins. Telewizja Polska. Dir: Jan Jakub Kolski. Key Cast: Magdalena Cielecka, Marcin Walewski, Agnieszka Grochowska. The Second World War: a cellar of one house becomes a place of hiding and cherishing the deepest, most vital human dreams. Palais D
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THE ARTIST (France) Drama, 100mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Michel Hazanavicius. Key cast: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo, James Cromwell. Hollywood, 1927. George
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THE MURDERER (THE YELLOW SEA) (South Korea) Thriller, 136mins. Showbox, Mediaplex, Inc. Dir: Na Hong-Jin. Key cast: Ha Jung-Woo, Kim Yoon-Suk. To pay off a gambling debt, a man is tricked into entering a dangerous trap. Salle Bazin
Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky’s the limit — major movie stardom awaits. Star 2
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STOPPED ON TRACK (HALT AUF FREIER STRECKE) (Germany) Drama, 110mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Andreas Dresen. Key cast: Milan Peschel, Steffi Kohnert, Talisa Lilly Lemke. Forty-year-old Frank has wife and family, a steady job and a new house in the suburbs. Out of the blue he is diagnosed with a brain tumour that leaves him with only a few months to live. The decision to home care Frank proves to be a struggle for him and his family to live and die in dignity. Arcades 3
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THE DAY HE ARRIVES (South Korea) Drama, 79mins. Finecut Co. Dir: Hong Sangsoo. Key cast: Yu Junsang, Kim Sangjoong, Song Sunmi. Salle Debussy
KEEPSAKE (US) Horror, thriller, 90mins. New Films International. Dir: Paul Moore. Key Cast: Robert Pralgo, Courtney Hogan, Barry Ellenberger. Monsters aren’t born — they’re made. Palais C
LEA (France) Drama, 90mins. Colifilms Diffusion. Dir: Bruno Rolland. Key cast: Anne Azoulay, Eric Elmosnino. Story of an ambitious young woman, a student who becomes a stripper, risking everything to strike out in search of a new life and a freedom
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