Eric Lavallée

When it comes to voice casting for animated features you either cast by name, cast by voice characteristics or then you have something like Jason Schwartzman's take on an insecure son who is seeking the approbation of his father. Perhaps its the air of familiarity of Wes Anderson employing someone from his fold which works wonders (this is Schwartzman's fourth film with Anderson not including Hotel Chevalier) but with comedy its all about timing - and the filmmaker and actor don't often miss their marks. Ditto goes for Owen Wilson and his Cal Ripken-esque status in Anderson's filmography.

With Andrea Arnold's brilliant sophomore feature coming out next week, IFC Films finally decided it was time to release the poster one sheet for Fish Tank. The image is taken from one the small batch of stills that were first introduced at Cannes, and after having seen the film, I would see the image in the context of a boxer training for the big fight.

Film Movement are re-teaming with Slovenia helmer Damjan Kozole on a contemporary drama about the world's oldest profession. After including his 2003 short Spare Parts on one of their DVD releases, the company has picked up Kozole's "Slovenian Girl" - a title that received a North American debut at TIFF last September, and which will receive a second quarter release going by the title of A Call Girl.

Since 1996's La promesse, Jérémie Renier has become a whipping boy of sorts for the Dardenne brothers. With a stint in 2005's L'enfant (2005) where Renier appeared as a vagabond in need of a parenting course, the actor saw conditions get worse with Lorna's Silence (the pic received its world preem at Cannes in 2008, and eventually received a 2009 theatrical release). Here, he plays a supporting character - the victim of addiction and an arranged marriage that didn't help out his overall cause.

Anyone who knows the Claire Denis' filmography would most certainly know the faces of Alex Descas and Gregoire Colin (featured in the pic above). Descas' work with Denis dates back to 1990's S'en fout la mort, and the facially gifted Colin might have had more to work with in Nénette et Boni (1996), Beau Travail (1999) and L'intrus (2004), but in the handful of scenes we do find him in for 35 Rhums, Colin makes his presence known by simply working with a character that doesn't have much of an elaborate back-story. In his fifth Claire Denis film, you could describe his subtle character as a mystery man and though at some point he does indeed get rid of a carcass – it's far from what one might think. Descas delicately plays a man headed into the unknown of retirement - in typical Denis fashion.