Eleven ACE features (Ateliers du Cinema European) have been recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards to be announced December 6, 2008! 'Moscow, Belgium' by Christophe Van Rompaey, produced by Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem (A Private View), 'Eden' by Declan Recks, produced by Martina Niland (Samson Films), 'The Class' by Laurent Cantet, produced by Carole Scotta (Haut & Court), 'Giorni e nuevole' by Silvio Soldini, produced by Tiziana Soudani (Amka Films Productions), 'Home' by Ursula Meier, produced by Denis Delcampe (Need Productions) and Helena Tatti (Box Productions), 'I am from Titov Veles' by Teona Strugar Mitevska, produced by Diana Elbaum (Entre chien et loup), 'Lemon Tree' by Eran Riklis, produced by Bettina Brokemper (Heimatfilm), 'Love and Other Crimes' by Stefan Arsenijevic, produced by Herbert Schwering (Coin Film), 'Black Ice' by Petri Kotwica, produced by Steffen Reuter (Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv), 'Waltz with Bashir' by Ari Folman, produced by Roman Paul (Razor Film Produktion), 'Wolke 9' by Andreas Dresen, produced by Peter Rommel (Rommel Film).
Full list of recommended films: European Film Academy.
Full list of recommended films: European Film Academy.
- 10/29/2008
- Sydney's Buzz
Panorama
PARIS -- A day in the life of a few lost souls in Belgrade, Love and Other Crimes follows Milutin (Fedja Kostic), a declining mobster; his right hand, Stanislav (Vuk Kostic); his mistress, Anica (Anica Dobra); and his autistic daughter, Ivana (Hanna Schwambom). This melancholic German-Serbian-Austrian-Slovenian co-production will be a tough sell theatrically but could play numerous festivals specialized in Eastern European cinema.
Spanning from morning to evening (the last evening Anica is planning to spend in her city), the action soon focuses on Stanislav's feelings for Anica. A rather impossible love story begins. Its outcome is predictable, but director Stefan Arsenijevic, in his first feature, gives the drama a bitter, melancholic touch.
Although some sequences have impact, such as the twin rooftop scenes showing the teenage Ivana having suicidal drives or the oddly funny revenge Anica takes on her former boyfriend, the nearly two-hour film seems to last for ages.
The film won't be of much use to the Serbian tourism office as Arsenijevic clearly loathes Belgrade, which he depicts in ruins, full of concrete project houses, and whose inhabitants all seem to long to escape to another country or to contribute to the city's high crime rate.
PARIS -- A day in the life of a few lost souls in Belgrade, Love and Other Crimes follows Milutin (Fedja Kostic), a declining mobster; his right hand, Stanislav (Vuk Kostic); his mistress, Anica (Anica Dobra); and his autistic daughter, Ivana (Hanna Schwambom). This melancholic German-Serbian-Austrian-Slovenian co-production will be a tough sell theatrically but could play numerous festivals specialized in Eastern European cinema.
Spanning from morning to evening (the last evening Anica is planning to spend in her city), the action soon focuses on Stanislav's feelings for Anica. A rather impossible love story begins. Its outcome is predictable, but director Stefan Arsenijevic, in his first feature, gives the drama a bitter, melancholic touch.
Although some sequences have impact, such as the twin rooftop scenes showing the teenage Ivana having suicidal drives or the oddly funny revenge Anica takes on her former boyfriend, the nearly two-hour film seems to last for ages.
The film won't be of much use to the Serbian tourism office as Arsenijevic clearly loathes Belgrade, which he depicts in ruins, full of concrete project houses, and whose inhabitants all seem to long to escape to another country or to contribute to the city's high crime rate.
- 2/12/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Soren Kragh-Jacobsen's Danish political thriller What No One Knows, South African crime drama Jerusalema by Ralph Ziman, Love & Other Crimes by Serbia's Stefan Arsenijevic's and apocalyptic fantasy Before Fall from Spain's Javier Gutierrez are among the titles that have been selected for the Berlin International Film Festival's Panorama sidebar.
The 2008 lineup, which also features the sci-fi dystopia of Mexican director Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer and the China-to-Moscow murder chase in Brad Anderson's thriller Transsiberian, includes several genre titles amidst the usual mix of serious art house films (represented this year by such titles as Beautiful by Korea's Jaihong Juhn and Russian director Anna Melikyan's Mermaid.)
One of the highlights of this year's Panorama is certain to be the world premiere of Madonna's directorial debut -- the drama Filth And Wisdom, starring Stephen Graham and Richard E. Grant.
Organizers will announce the full Panorama lineup in the coming days.
The 2008 lineup, which also features the sci-fi dystopia of Mexican director Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer and the China-to-Moscow murder chase in Brad Anderson's thriller Transsiberian, includes several genre titles amidst the usual mix of serious art house films (represented this year by such titles as Beautiful by Korea's Jaihong Juhn and Russian director Anna Melikyan's Mermaid.)
One of the highlights of this year's Panorama is certain to be the world premiere of Madonna's directorial debut -- the drama Filth And Wisdom, starring Stephen Graham and Richard E. Grant.
Organizers will announce the full Panorama lineup in the coming days.
- 1/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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