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International Film Festival Opens Today in Moscow

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International Film Festival Opens Today in Moscow


17.06.2010

The film "What Love May Bring" by legendary French director Claude Lelouch will open the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival, Russia Today reports. Over 200 films are to be screened during the 10 day festival.

The world premiere of a new film by 1967 Cannes laureate and Oscar-winner Claude Lelouch, entitled "What Love May Bring”, will take place Thursday, after the opening ceremony. The French director is not new to Moscow’s Film festival: Claude Lelouch’s films “Crossed Tracks” and “The Courage to Love” were screened at festivals in 2006 and 2007.

Lelouch has also been named the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 32nd Moscow International Film.

Some 25 new fiction films are included in the Russian program of the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival, including the controversial Nikita Mikhalkov’s “Burnt by the Sun” sequel, screened at Cannes and “How I Ended This Summer”, directed by Aleksey Popogrebsky, which won three Silver Bears at the Berlinale Film Festival.

Apart from those, domestic achievements in animation will be represented by over a dozen new animation pictures, including the 3D film dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the famous flight of space-dogs Belka and Strelka, who safely returned to Earth.

Film critic Irina Pavlova commented on the festival’s program to Voice of Russia: “This year we have suddenly discovered that all the films, no matter what genre they belong to – whether they are detective stories, melodramas, philosophical parables, or the author’s choice – speak about change. Film directors did not arrange to do the same; on the contrary, they meant to be different from everybody in everything. Nevertheless, practically each film is about changes in people’s lives, sometimes catastrophic changes that make people change themselves.”

The jury of the festival is chaired by French film director Luc Besson.  His film "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Dry-White" will close the festival.
 

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