International press roundup: February 2023

During February, the main news, in terms of festivals, for French cinema was MyFrenchFilmFestival, whose award ceremony took place on closing night on February 13.

In Japan, Cinema Café highlighted the winners of MyFrenchFilmFestival.

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In Mexico, the daily La Crónica took a look at Softie, "a pleasant surprise which we can highly recommend."

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In The Netherlands, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) presented the Tiger Award to a French co-production, Le Spectre de Boko Haram, we could read in Screen.

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And to complete this clutch of prizes, let's mention the Golden Bear awarded by the Berlinale to the documentary On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert, covered in particular by The Guardian.

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In terms of audivisual productions, our series and TV programs received much attention in the international press..

Beginning with Dinospital and Marie-Antoinette, two series presented at the recent Kidscreen Summit (Miami, February 12-15), profiled here.

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Also in KidScreen, we learned that Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir won the Best Animated Series Award.

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And Animation-Week magazine dedicated a series of special editions to the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, beginning with a long interview with Baptiste Jaquemet, director of the Behind the Beats series.
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Meanwhile, Variety focused on Dark Hearts, a series by Ziad Doueiri, about the French special forces in Iraq: "The army is not what we think."
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The New York Post praised the British-French spy series Liaison, starring Eva Green and Vincent Cassel as ex-lovers forced to work together again.
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Concerning remakes, Produ.com revealed in Latin America the remake of the French series L’Effrondement, with the title El Colapso, about the social consequences of the collapse of the financial and technological system.
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And Variety announced the remake of HIP in the USA.
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The British site C21 Screenings published an interview with Julia Schulte, vice president of international sales at France tv distribution, in which she talks about the increasing international demand for French content.
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To wrap up this audiovisual segment, a teaser about the next edition of Séries Mania, with the announcement in Señal News, about upcoming series from Unifrance, "Coming Next From France."
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Theatrical releases

In Germany, the Berliner Zeitung reported on Return to Seoul, out on release since the end of January: "Aesthetically impeccable (…) a film that [you] can't get out of [your] head."
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In Italy, Cinematografo magazine published a glowing article about Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, which has already racked up 150,000 admissions to date.
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In Ukraine, Kino-teatr published an interview with Mia Hansen-Løve for the release of her latest film, One Fine Morning.
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And in Spain, the public radio station SER sketched a portrait of Marion Cotillard for the release of the film Brother and Sister in which she stars.
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In Quebec, the Journal de Montréal wrote about Laure Calamy: "In seven years, this actress from the theater world has become one of the most in-demand actresses in French cinema," upon the release of Full Time.
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This same film, released in the USA, received a review in The Chicago Reader : "Calamy delivers a wonderfully sympathetic and complicated performance as Julie."

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