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MONTHLYMONTHLY GUIDEGUIDE FEBRUARY 2017 | ISSUE 91 | EASTERN Italian Comedies Dutch Night European Series EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | FEBRUARY 2017 | 1 2 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | FEBRUARY 2017 | MONTHLY GUIDE | FEBRUARY 2017 | ISSUE 91 Italian Comedies In February, Eurochannel keeps its promise of delivering the best Dutch Night of European cinema and television. This month offers the perfect opportunity to discover what are filmmakers and producers are doing in Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia and the United Kingdom. With an exclusive selection of movies and TV series, we are sure you will enjoy Europe at its best. Discover the new talents of Italian cinema! With a collection of four films ranging from comedy to drama, Eurochannel suggests you spend every Friday night with established stars like Maria Grazia European Series Cucinotta or the dancer Joaquín Cortés, and discover new talents like Giuglielmo Scilla. This month, we also devote an entire night to Dutch cinema, TABLE OF presenting three award-winning movies: The Trap, Upstream and CONTENTS Whitefish. All of these productions have something in common; all are thrilling, dramatic, and will keep you longing for more cinema 4 Highlights from the Netherlands! 22 Week 1 Week 2 Topping it off, this month, Eurochannel gives special attention to all 24 European TV series lovers. We have heard you! We present the jaw- 26 Week 3 dropping final episode of Struggle for Life and premiere its second 28 Week 4 season. But also, in February, you can relive some of the greatest series of recent years, like Russia’s Two Legends and UK’s Collision. EUROCHANNEL GUIDE PUBLISHED BY Eurochannel, Inc. EDITOR IN CHIEF Javier Pardo EDITORS Anna Oboza, Marc Boisban, Cristina Silva & Zheljko Kojchic. ARTWORK Cristina Tejada EUROCHANNEL, INC. 235 Lincoln Road # 201 | Miami Beach, FL 33139 Gustavo Vainstein +1-(305)-531-1315 | www.eurochannel.com Eurochannel’s CEO ©2017 | All pictures rights are reserved. Premiere: CINEMA January 19th at 08:00 PM Italy Premiere: CINEMA February 3rd at 9:00 PM Come learn the Decalogue for perfect loving DIRECTOR Cristiano Borton CAST Vincenzo Salemme, Giuglielmo Love is a game, and as with every game, it has its rules. Scilla, Enrica Pintore, Giulio Berruti GENRE Comedy Eurochannel presents an Italian comedy featuring some of ORIGINAL TITLE 10 Regole per fare the best local talents that provides a series of instructions innamorare to being the person that makes everyone fell at their feet. YEAR 2012 Come discover the 10 Rules for Falling in Love. 10 Rules for Falling in Love is a movie that represents the best of the praised Italian comedy cinema through the years. Directed by Cristiano Bortone, this film tells the story of Renato and Marco, father and son, who, while trying to Renato (Vincenzo Salemme), a womanizer father reconnect with one another, venture into a love conquest for teaches Marco (Giuglielmo Scilla), his clumsy son, the latter, as he struggles to gain the love of a girl. the Decalogue of seduction: ten foolproof rules to make any woman fall in love. However, when love Two opposites: Marco is very clumsy but sensitive. His father, knocks on their door, the results will be not what Renato, is a confident man - a womanizing Latin lover from the two of them expected. the Southern city of Naples. As the plot develops, the father reveals his secrets to his son: there is a Decalogue for making woman fall in love with any man. A science made of exact rules and patterns proven successful to Renato… But will they work for Marco? 4 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | FEBRUARY 2017 | The cast of 10 Rules for Falling in Love is like a sky full of stars. Vincenzo Salemme is a renowned Italian stage actor; Giuglielmo Scilla is a YouTube star known as Willwoosh; and the beautiful Enrica Pintore is a model and actress with plenty of credits on Italian television – she also was amongst the three finalists in the Miss Italy 2003 contest. Eurochannel invites you to discover whether love can be decrypted in a Decalogue, and if Renato’s strategy will work for Marco in his romantic endeavor! Come learn the Decalogue for perfect loving Interview with CRISTIANO BORTONE (Director) How did you come up with the story for this movie? I always scout for new ideas and concepts to make movies. Sometimes stories come in the most unexpected moments. So, it happened that I was having a drink with some friends. Some of them men, some women, some single . And people started making jokes about how men are mistreated when they are young, because women are more mature and look for older and more mature partners. But later on, men become more confident and things reverse. That’s how I thought: “the eternal discussion about seduction and ‘gender war’ is a topic that always raises so much controversy and laughter . There is nothing to do. Except that people can have fun in front of a beer but in the end love really do prevails. And that’s how the idea of a story came to my mind: “It is said that love has no rules, but what if somebody claimed that they actually existed?” Where did the 10 rules come from; what was the process of creating them? The great Stendhal used to say that love is a science. The truth is that, although life is the result of the most unexpected variables, there are some archetypical behaviors. And it is true that ― over time ― we learnt how to detect some signals to anticipate reactions. So, even when it comes to emotions, experience does have some value. When we were youngsters, we all at some point wondered what the right way to approach a girl was, or when is the right moment to try to go for a kiss. EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | FEBRUARY 2017 | 5 With the writing team, we started to assemble the rules . imagining a journey from beginning to a final success. It was a fun exercise that went along with the dramatic twists of the story, because let’s not forget that some of the rules should be absurd and leave room for mistakes and misunderstandings. These 10 creative rules are from a particular point of view, the archetypal Italian macho, but the traditional romance wins for the protagonist. How did you manage to translate that archetype into universal comedy? Although the “10 rules” are somehow part of what is perceived as a Southern macho approach ― which, in the movie, is embodied by our fantastic comedy actor, Salemme ― in the end, they do become universal laws of seduction. Let us think of classics comedies like Cyrano or more modern ones like Hitch or The 40-Year-Old Virgin. The fantasy of logic and experience to prevail over the irrationality of emotions is something universal that resonates in audiences everywhere. And then of course any of the rules is functional to create the premise for a comedy twist in the story. How did you select the actors; what did you want in them? I am normally a very curious person that likes to experiment. Although the genre of this film is a classic comedy, I gave a chance to a somewhat new discovery to star in the movie. Guglielmo Scilla at the time was in fact a very sarcastic web star, with thousands of followers but he had never made a feature before. So, I took my chance translating him from the web to the big screen. Eventually, he also published a book on the 10 rules, which was a big success in Italy. Next to him, his father is a very famous Italian comedian that here plays a much more moving role than he is used to. He was very much praised for that, as many critics perceived for the first time his real potential as an actor. And, of course, we had fun putting together the group of roommates, first among all, the lovely Fatima Trotta, that at the time was the presenter of a very alternative but fun TV comedy show called Made in Sud. Now she has become much more popular. What message did you want to put across with this comedy? I make different kinds of films, some more profound, some more entertaining. When you make a comedy, you firstly want people to laugh. But it is true that 10 Rules also holds a very moving tone that can be seen in many of my films. After all, comedy becomes stronger when it has some moments of intensity and emotions. How would you define your directing style? That’s what I ask myself every day when I look in the mirror. I wonder if that happens to all directors. I would say that I am very curious and I am not afraid of proving myself with something always different. New challenges make our work always exciting. Are you working on any projects at the moment? Can you tell us something about them? I just finished my new film called Coffee. It premiered as a special event at the last Venice Film Festival and now it’s starting its international journey. It’s the first official coproduction between Italy, China and Belgium ― an intense movie connecting three destinies across continents and all linked by the element of . coffee. I would say quite a different set up. But now I am working more and more with China on several projects, including a remake of . 10 Rules! 6 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | FEBRUARY 2017 | DIRECTOR Patrizio Gioffredi CAST Gabriele Pini, Xiuzhong Zhang, Carlo DIRECTORMonni, Alessandro Christina GuarientoRosendahl CASTGENRE Peter Comedy, Plaugborg, Drama Søren Malling, ThomasORIG BoINA LarsenL TITLE Sogni di gloria GENREYEAR Thriller 2014 ORIGINAL TITLE Idealisten YEAR 2015 Italy Denmark Premiere: TheCINEMA truth behindFebruary 10tha nuclear at 9:00 PM cover-up in Denmark A two-episode film comedy about Italian customs A movie in two episodes.