A Spiritual Matter a Journey Deep Inside a Woman’S Mind
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MONTHLY GUIDE APRIL 2016 | ISSUE 81 | CENTRAL Sophie Marceau in A Spiritual Matter A journey deep inside a woman’s mind Dutch Cinema Gems • Behind France’s Great Films • The Idealist • Almost Perfect EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | APRIL 2015 | 1 2 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | APRIL 2016 | MONTHLY GUIDE | APRIL | ISSUE 81 A Spiritual Matter Sophie Marceau in A Spiritual Matter At Eurochannel we are proud to offer the finest in European audiovisual productions through a curated selection every month. In The Idealist April, after a thoughtful selection, we present you two of the most entertaining productions from Denmark, and two special cycles revealing the best of Dutch and French Cinema. April takes us to Denmark, France, and the Netherlands to enjoy their best audiovisual endeavors. From Denmark, The Idealist presents us with a gripping story about investigative journalism in the spirit of Academy Award nominees Spotlight or All the President’s Men. In the movie, a man will reveal a cover-up of a nuclear disaster in Denmark, Pet Shop Boys a country supposed to be nuclear-free territory. Also from Denmark, Almost Perfect is a hilarious comedy with Lene Maria Christensen (from Lulu & Leon) about a woman looking to become TABLE OF a mother through artificial insemination. After swearing off men, she CONTENTS stalks the donor to develop an unlikely and funny relationship. The Netherlands is also represented in April with a cycle of movies 4 Highlights already premiered on Eurochannel, with the best talents from the Low 24 Week 1 Countries. 26 Week 2 28 Week 3 To top it all off, we celebrate the release of a new Pet Shop Boys album with a special featuring the best music videos of this British iconic pop 30 Week 4 duo! EUROCHANNEL GUIDE PUBLISHED BY Eurochannel, Inc. EDITOR IN CHIEF Javier Pardo EXECUTIVE EDITOR Cristina Tejada EDITORS Anna Oboza, Cristina Silva & Zheljko Kojchic ARTWORK Cristina Tejada Gustavo Vainstein EUROCHANNEL, INC. 235 Lincoln Road # 201 | Miami Beach, FL 33139 Eurochannel’s CEO +1-(305)-531-1315 | www.eurochannel.com ©2016 | All pictures rights are reserved. Premiere: CINEMA April 14th • 09:00 PM France A journey deep inside a woman’s mind 4 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | APRIL 2016 | DIRECTOR Bénédicte Acolas CAST Sophie Marceau GENRE Drama ORIGINAL TITLE Une histoire d’âme YEAR 2015 Plunge into the feelings, desires, anger, joy and despair of a woman whose life has been a roller coaster. Eurochannel presents the French production,A Spiritual Matter. Is she crazy, or, quite the contrary, has she been illuminated by the truth? Is she angry, or does she find redemption for her anguish? Is she irrational, or is she inviting us to reflect on our own irrationality, disguised by the conventions of modern society? These and other questions are shaped through one of the most thoughtful and enigmatic French cinema productions in recent years. Directed by Bénédicte Acolas, A Spiritual Matter is the first-ever adaptation of an Ingmar Bergman script since his passing. In this movie, Viktoria is a 40-year-old woman who seems to have gone mad and develops a compelling and moving monologue of moments that marked her existence. As the film develops, she immerses us in her memories, dreams, joys and dashed hopes. This portrait of A journey deep inside a woman’s mind a woman is a reflection on memory, desire, and freedom. A Spiritual Matter was first adapted to theater by Bénédicte Acolas, starring the same actress, the beautiful and still sensual Sophie Marceau, known worldwide for Viktoria (Sophie Marceau), a bishop’s daughter her breathtaking interpretation of the villainess Bond girl Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough. Now a renowned and pastor’s wife, talks to herself and reveals figure in French cinema, Sophie takes a stand-alone role her intimate world: her joys and woes, her to entertain and amaze audiences during an 82-minute childhood and her relationship with her monologue. cheating and aloof husband. She voyages from life to life, seemingly playing several Come meet a sensual and sensible woman with a passion roles. She remembers, dreams, fantasizes and for the truth, a sense of humour, and perspective on her hallucinates, bringing back to life her late own life, who moves away from a kind of reality to plunge husband, mother, father and friends. into her memories, imaginations and delusions. EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | APRIL 2015 | 5 To commemorate the airing of the French WWI-themed movie A Spiritual Matter, here is a selection of three of the most memorable films with only one actor on screen to entertain us during the whole movie. Buried Regarded as a psychological thriller, Buried, directed by Rodrigo Cortés. is possibly the ultimate example of a one-actor movie. As the film opens on Ryan Reynolds as Paul Conroy, we quickly discover that he has awoken in a coffin-shaped box, buried in an unknown location. Paul finds with him a lighter, a flask, a flashlight, a knife, glow sticks, a pen, and a cell phone. A phone call from his kidnapper demanding a ransom of $5 million begins a chain of communications through which viewers discover who he is, how he got there, and what is going on outside. Buried won the Best European Film award at the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival and two Goya Awards, for Best Editing and Sound. Moon Secret Honor Directed by Duncan Jones (son of musician Written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and directed and actor David Bowie), Moon is a 2009 British by Robert Altman, Secret Honor is a movie adapted from a science fiction dramatic movie that follows Sam play about Richard Nixon. Starring Philip Baker Hall as former Bell (Sam Rockwell), a man who experiences a president Nixon, the production is a fictional account attempting personal crisis as he nears the end of a three- to gain insight into the politician’s personality, life, attitudes year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far and behavior. Throughout the monologue, Nixon’s description side of the Moon. Moon premiered at the 2009 of himself changes. Sometimes he calls himself a man of the Sundance Film Festival and was released on people, saying that he could succeed because he has known June 12, 2009. Moon won numerous film critic failure, just like the average American; but he also emphasizes and film festival awards and was nominated for that he never committed a crime, alluding to Watergate. Secret Outstanding British Film at the BAFTAs. Honor was filmed at the University of Michigan. 6 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | APRIL 2016 | Premiere: CINEMA April 16th • 09:00 PM DIRECTOR Christina Rosendahl CAST Peter Plaugborg, Søren Malling, Thomas Bo Larsen GENRE Thriller ORIGINAL TITLE Idealisten YEAR 2015 Denmark The truth behind a nuclear cover-up in Denmark Poul (Peter Plaugborg), a community-devoted journalist, attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War when an American B52 bomber, loaded with nuclear weapons, crashed at the US Airbase at Thule, in Greenland. He made possible what others thought unimaginable. With to Greenland as part of the clean-up operation, ‘Project his drive and stubbornness, he faced the dark tides of secret Crested Ice,’ have developed a range of skin diseases – politics in his native country and defied the United States. including cancer. But overall, he was a man of strong beliefs. Eurochannel presents The Idealist. Resembling international blockbusters of investigative reporters such as All The President’s Men or the Oscar The Idealist is a Danish political thriller directed by Christina nominee Spotlight, The Idealist is based on actual events. Rosendahl about a journalist and his determination to reveal Going deep into the heart of an international cover-up so a truth hidden by the highest power spheres in Denmark. In immense in size that it holds two nations across the Atlantic this gripping story, Poul Brink, a local radio station journalist, culpable (Denmark and the United States), it reveals the discovers that many of the Danish workers who were sent discovery of the consequences a nuclear disaster that EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | APRIL 2015 | 7 occurred during the height of the Cold War in a country operation, and speeches by presidents and prime ministers of supposed to be radiation weapons–free. the two countries involved. With plenty of entertainment and emotion,The Idealist offers Come alongside Poul to discover the truth behind one of a magnificent fiction that combines real historic footage from the worst nuclear cover-ups in history. A story about power, 1968 of the B52 bomber, loaded with nuclear weapons, which idealism and one man’s courage to uncover two nations’ crashed at the US Airbase at Thule in Greenland, the clean-up double- dealing during the Cold War. From Journalism to Cinema: Three Famous Movies About Investigative Journalism Celebrating the airing of the Danish movie The Idealist, a drama about an investigative journalist, we selected three films based on actual events about journalists unveiling conspirators, either political or corporate. All the President’s Men (1976) A true-life detective tale about a pair of intrepid reporters, this film follows Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they uncover a possible connection between the 1972 Watergate burglary and a White House staffer. This Oscar-nominated film documents how the power of the press and determination of two young journalists brought down this president, who two years prior had won re-election by the widest margin in history. Faithfully adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book authored by these reporters, All the President’s Men delivers remarkable performances by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.