2009 Cinemania Film Fest: Mouret’s Please Please Me and Mihaileanu’s The Concert

Now in its 15th year, Montreal’s Cinemania Film Festival, one of North America’s better French language fests has unveiled its 30-title roster with its usual mix of films from the big four (Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Toronto) and select tiles from the Rotterdams, Locarnos, Karlovy Varys and Sundances. Opening the fest is the North American premiere of Emmanuel Mouret’s French sex comedy Please Please Me! (which I think should logically be picked up for the U.S. market – see trailer here) and the ten day fest will be closing with the North American premiere of Radu Mihaileanu’s The Concert – a Weinstein Co. title starring Melanie Laurent that will most likely open sometime early in 2010. The fest will also include a Master Class with a cleaned up, anniversary copy of the 1969 classic Z and will show Eden is West (which was featured back in Berlin). Look for more coverage on the fest in November. 

Here are the additional selections for the 2009 edition:…

EDEN IS WEST – Costa-Gavras
WELCOME – Philippe Lioret
COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY – Jan Kounen
L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL – Christian Carion
THE ARMY OF CRIME – Robert Guédiguian
ONE FOR THE ROAD – Philippe Godeau

INCOGNITO – Éric Lavaine

THE OTHER ONE – Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS – Frédéric Auburtin

A DAY AT THE MUSEUM – Jean-Michel Ribes

MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON – Stéphane Brizé

A REAL LIFE – Sarah Leonor

STELLA – Sylvie Verheyde

I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER – Samuel Benchetrit

WELCOME HOME – Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

PARDON MY FRENCH – Sophie Fillières

BABY BLUES – Diane Bertrand

LA TRÈS TRÈS GRANDE ENTREPRISE – Pierre Jolivet

SECRETS OF STATE – Philippe Haïm

HOME SWEET HOME – Didier Le Pêcheur

HE’S MY GIRL – Jean-Jacques Zilbermann

ERREUR DE LA BANQUE EN VOTRE FAVEUR – Michel Munz, Gérard Bitton

LOVEBIRDS – Christine Dory

FRANÇAISE – Souad El Bouhati

BE GOOD – Juliette Garcias
YOU’LL MISS ME – Amanda Sthers