Exclusive: Canadian distributor takes Blue Bicycle and Fortune Favors The Brave from Berlin’s strand aimed at teenagers and children.
Montreal based kids’ movie specialist Attraction Distribution has picked up two films in Berlinale’s Generation section, both world premieres in Berlin.
The two films are Blue Bicycle [pictured], a Turkish film by debut director Ümit Köreken, and Fortune Favors The Brave by German director/producer Norbert Lechner.
Also new on Attraction’s Efm slate is Mr Frog, adapted from the best selling novel by Paul van Loon (author of Fuchsia The Mini Witch) and directed by Anna van der Heide. Attraction has a promo here for the film, which recently received Eurimages backing. The film is produced by Bosbros and coproduced by Prime Time. The scriptwriter is Mieke de Jong.
Montreal based kids’ movie specialist Attraction Distribution has picked up two films in Berlinale’s Generation section, both world premieres in Berlin.
The two films are Blue Bicycle [pictured], a Turkish film by debut director Ümit Köreken, and Fortune Favors The Brave by German director/producer Norbert Lechner.
Also new on Attraction’s Efm slate is Mr Frog, adapted from the best selling novel by Paul van Loon (author of Fuchsia The Mini Witch) and directed by Anna van der Heide. Attraction has a promo here for the film, which recently received Eurimages backing. The film is produced by Bosbros and coproduced by Prime Time. The scriptwriter is Mieke de Jong.
- 2/14/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
A normal life was never an option for Lena. Whether a translation tick or a telling line throughout the film, the words “Be normal” crop up often as none of the characters traveling in and out of this young girl’s life come close to the definition. Raised by a prostitute mother constantly belittles her for being fat when not on the phone yelling in Polish about her dying, pimp father, Lena has nothing to her name but pain and suffering. Between the ridicule at home and the snickering looks from kids her age outside, the only reprieve she’s allowed is a Thursday night line-dancing class with best friend Hanneke … and sex. But as the opening sequence shows us in what’s eventually proven to be over-used slow motion, this physical act holds no passion or desire. Like her tempestuous guardian, sex serves only to drowning her in the dull,...
- 9/9/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Director: Martin Koolhoven Writers: Mieke de Jong, Martin Koolhoven, Paul Jan Nelissen (screenplay), Jan Terlouw (novel) Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower Winter in Wartime opens to a snowy scene in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II in 1945. A British fighter plane crashes several hundred yards away from Michiel van Beusekom's second story bedroom window. Moments later the English pilot is spotted by a German scout as he patrols the nearby forest, but the pilot quickly shots the German in the head while dangling from his deployed parachute in the trees above. Michiel and his family are in support of the resistance, but because Michiel's father Vader van Beusekom is the village Mayor, he must stay neutral to the bidding of the Germans in attempt to keep the towns people safe. In contrast to his father, Michiel adores his rebellious Uncle Ben who is active in...
- 5/28/2011
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
- 3/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Chris Allsop
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
(March 2011)
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven
Written by: Paul Jan Nelissen, Mieke de Jong and Martin Koolhoven
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry and Melody Klaver
“Winter in Wartime” arrives in U.S. theaters already laden with accolades: Short-listed for the 2009 Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, it’s also won multiple Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival. And, incredibly for a foreign arthouse movie, it also managed to outgross “Twilight.”
Okay, so that was only in the Netherlands. And the marketing edge provided by the longstanding fame of Jan Terlouw’s best-seller of the same name — on which “Winter in Wartime” is based — probably helped propel director Martin Koolhoven’s movie to its impressive commercial showing. But another contributing factor was — and will no doubt continue to be — the broad appeal of this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Holland.
- 3/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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