Francesco Favino, Carlo Verdone, Marco Giallini. Riviera 3
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KEEP THE LIGHTS ON (US) 102mins. Films Boutique. Dir: Ira Sachs. Key cast: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth. Chronicles the emotionally and sexually charged journey of two men in New York in the 1990s. Documentary film-maker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul
for an environmental NGO disappear during a mission in the region of Arlit. Hugo Geoffroy, second-in-command of a specialist emergency unit of the French police, and Thomas Villiers, his boss, are sent to negotiate for the hostages’ freedom. The same day in Niamey, however, negotiations get under way between the Nigerian government and Urania, a giant French uranium company, with a view to renewing French mining concessions. Palais B
KEEP THE LIGHTS ON See box, above
LOVE LOVE LOVE (France) 90mins. Les Mures Sauvages. Dir: Bruno Mercier. Key cast: Albert Delpy, Alicia Roda, Arno Chevrier, Jean-Yves R Lemoine. A men discovers that life is better without fears. Gray 4
meet through a casual encounter and soon become a couple. They are risk takers — compulsive and fueled by sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself. Riviera 2
MAN FROM SHAOLIN (US) 91mins. Princ Films. Dir: Richard T. Wong. Key cast: Li Zhang, Brian Ames, Jasmine Galante, Linda Elena Tovar A 32nd generation Chinese Shaolin Fighting Monk Li Bao Xin must emigrate to New York City to look after young Janie, his six-year-old niece. Struggling to make a new life, Li Bao will face challenges that test his character more than his physical strength. While in China he was a respected master; in America he is nobody. To make a life for him and Janie, Li Bao must contend with a modern society, where his great fighting skills and heroic lineage have little meaning. He will have to decide which is more important, his dreams or his family. Palais D
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED (US) 94mins.
n 76 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2012
Independent. Dir: Colin Trevorrow Key cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake M Johnson. Three Seattle journalists set out to find and profile the man behind a bizarre ad offering a unique time travel opportunity. Star 3
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING (US) 90mins. Lightning Entertainment. Dir: Brian Dannelly Key cast: Chris Colfer, Christina Hendricks, Rebel Wilson. Seventeen-year-old Carson Phillips is determined to make something of himself and blaze a trail beyond his crummy high school, when he is suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning. The incident is the spark to a wickedly funny story about a young man who devises a blackmailing scheme to improve his chances of getting accepted into a top college… but what he accomplishes is much more profound. Lerins 1
TABU (Portugal) 110mins. The Match Factory. Dir: Miguel Gomes. Key cast: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira. Star 4
TEN RULES FOR FALLING IN LOVE (Italy) 93mins. Adriana Chiesa Enterprises. Dir: Cristiano Bortone. Key cast: Enrica Pintore,
Fatima Trotta, Giorgio Verduci, Giulio Berruti, Guglielmo Scilla, Piero Cardano, Pietro Masotti, Vincenzo Salemme. Arcades 1
VICTOR AND THE SECRET OF CROCODILE MANSION See box, below
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POSTI IN PIEDI IN PARADISO (Italy) 120mins. Intramovies. Dir: Carlo Verdone Key cast: Pier
APARTMENT IN ATHENS (Italy) 95mins. Filmexport Group. Dir: Ruggero Dipaola. Key cast: Laura Morante, Richard Sammel, Gerasimos Skiadaresis. Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle- aged couple who used to be well-off. He is an intellectual, moderate and patient. She is an anxious housewife. They have a 10-year-old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a 12-year-old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. Palais C
APPROVED FOR ADOPTION (France) 75mins. Wide House. Dir: Jung Henin, Laurent Boileau. Follows comicbook artist and co-director Jung as he returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of five. Animated sequences
illustrate Jung’s memories of growing-up in Belgium with his adopted parents. Palais G
THE BAYTOWN DISCO See box, right
COMPLIANCE (US) 90mins. Memento Films International. Dir: Craig Zobel. The story of Sandra, an overworked manager at a fast food restaurant, who receives a call from a police officer accusing one of her employees, a teenage girl named Becky, of stealing from a customer. Taking the officer at his word, Sandra detains Becky, setting into motion a nightmarish scenario that quickly spirals out of control. Olympia 6
EAT SLEEP DIE (Sweden) 103mins. Yellow Affair Oy. Dir: Gabriela Pichler. Key cast: Nermina Lukac. When the forceful young Swedish-Balkan, take-no- shit factory worker loses her job, she faces up to the dreaded unemployment system. With no high school diploma, no work — but her boots deeply entrenched in the mud
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VICTOR AND THE SECRET OF CROCODILE MANSION (Germany) 91mins. Sola Media. Dir: Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert. Key cast: Kristo Ferkic, Joanna Ferkic, Vijessna Ferkic Eleven-year-old Victor is both thrilled and mystified when his family moves
into his grand-uncle’s sombre mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts — and a dark secret: Four decades ago, his grand-cousin Cecilia, at the same age he is now, lost her life on the mansion’s impressive staircase, and the circumstances of her death still remain obscure. Riviera 4
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