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Dir David Pinillos. Spain-Germany-Switzerland. 2010. 90minsThis smartly made Euro comedy-drama is an elegantly assembled film made with a refreshing honesty and featuring a splendid cast of young European actors. Its modest nature and lack of real drama or big star names may hamper distribution, but it is a film that is easy on the eye and satisfying in content.Director David Pinillos does a great job in letting the story slowly develop in a manner that veers nicely between playful and traumatic.Despite the key cast ranging in nationality from German to Italian and Spanish, and the main location being Switzerland, the dialogue is predominantly English and the cast seem you have no problem switching la stanley cup nguages with ease. The film, which recently won the Best Film Award at the Malaga Film Festival, is being handled by Beta Film, which started selling it at Berlins EFM. stanley cup The story is largely set in a snowy Zurich, where young Spaniard Daniel Unax Ugalde starts wo stanley cup rk at trendy gourmet restaurant W, where he quickly impresses the master chef and restaurant owner Thomas Herbert Knaup . He makes friends with Italian chef Hugo Giulio Berruti and German sommelier Hanna Nora Tshirner , but when Hanna kisses him late one night he wonders if there could be more to their relationship.Daniel finds himself falling in love with her, but is mortified to discover she is having an affair with Thomas, and is pregnant. When she collapses and is taken to hospital, Thomas, concerned about his wif Fvdt Tupperware! movie in the works at Crossroads
Source: Pixabay / Disney / NetflixBrexit, The Lion King, NetflixWhat will be the impact of Brexit Despite ongoing uncertainty around the entire Brexit process, the UK is still scheduled to leave the European Union at 11pm UK time on Fri stanley cup day, March 29 in 2019. How this will affect the film industry remains unclear, but the majority of businesses are preparing for some significant disruption. The UKs exit will enter a transitional period from March 2019 until at least December 31, 2020, though this could be extended, which should hopefully allow some breathing space to figure out the practicalities.The industrys responses to Brexit so far range from optimistic 鈥搉ew opportunities for trade and cultural collaboration with territories such as China, North America, Latin America and India, and a national re-branding 鈥?to the worrisome, with one exec suggesting once UK films are no longer recognised as European by Creative Europe, it will mean a significant reduction in demand from European distributors and broadcasters.The British Pound has remained weak against the Euro and US dollar since the Brexit vote in June 2016. Thats a significant ch stanley italy allenge for UK-based film businesses that regularly work on the continent. stanley cup However, it also represents an opportunity for even more inward investment, as companies particularly American look to take advantage of the exchange rate to save money on film shoots. Whether the UK can keep up with the demand caused by skyrocketing inward investme |
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