12/11/2010

Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Aberdeen, Dumfries, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling and Warwick: these are the nine British cities participating in the 18th French Film Festival UK, which kicked off yesterday and will close on December 7.

The line-up includes five titles in UK avant-premiere: Bertrand Tavernier’s The Princess of Montpensier [+see also:
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The Discovery section will unspool Christopher Thompson’s Bus Palladium [+see also:
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Eleven features are in the Panorama programme: Safy Nebbou’s Dumas [+see also:
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French films are enjoying a prosperous 2010 in UK theatres with particularly good results garnered by Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet [+see also:
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(Translated from French)