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European Film


LITTLE WHITE LIES (Les Petits Mouchoirs) (France) Guillaume Canet’s ensemble comedy drama was a huge hit in France last year, scoring 5.25 million admissions and ending 2010 as the year’s second most successful film after Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1. The film follows a group of friends as they reunite for a holiday and are forced to face up to the little white lies they have been telling each other. Marion Cotil- lard, François Cluzet, Benoît Magimel, Gilles Lellouche and Jean Dujardin star. Actor-director Canet was nominated as European Discovery at the 2003 EFAs for Whatever You Say (Mon ldole). Cotillard is a previous EFA nominee for best actress in 2007 for La Vie En Rose.


POTICHE (France) With a star-studded cast headed by Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depar- dieu, this 1970s-set comedy impressed audiences and critics alike. Directed by France’s François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool), Potiche tells the story of the submissive, housebound wife of a wealthy industrialist who ulti- mately proves herself competent and assertive when she has to step in and run her husband’s factory. Produced by Eric and Nicolas Altmayer, the film also stars Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche and Jérémie Renier. Potiche premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2010 and earned four César nominations.


UNKNOWN (France-Germany-US-UK) This thriller from Spanish-born director Jaume Collet-Serra stars Liam Nee- son as a scientist who travels with his wife to a biotech conference in Berlin, where a car crash puts him in a coma. When he wakes, his wife claims not to recognise him, another man is claiming to be him and records of his arrival in the city have vanished. Based on Didier van Cauwelaert’s French novel Out Of My Head, Unknown transplants the action from Paris to a snowy Berlin. Also starring January Jones, Diane Kruger, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz and Frank Langella, the film was shot in Germany and was produced by StudioCanal and Dark Castle Entertainment.


WELCOME TO THE SOUTH (Benvenuti Al Sud) (Italy) This Italian remake of the French comedy Welcome To The Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’tis) became the highest-grossing locally produced film of all time at the Italian box office in 2010, taking almost $40.6m (¤30m) through Medusa Film. Directed by Luca Miniero and written by Massimo Gaudioso, Welcome To The South is a comedy about regional stereotypes following postal manager Alberto (Claudio Bisio) who wants to be transferred to Milan, but instead finds himself relocated to a small town in the southern Campania region. Initially full of prejudice, Alberto arrives in a bullet-proof vest as a precaution but is gradually won over by the locals.


European Film Awards 2011 n 51


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