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In Rotterdam last week for the festival screening of EnduringLove, British director Roger Michellrevealed further details of two future projects he is working on with WorkingTitle.Michell is about to take the leap into producing with theWorking Title backed Marathon, aportmanteau picture about six people competing in the London Marathon, one ofthe biggest events of its kind in the world. The project is being written and directed by Tim Sulli
stanley cup van Jackand Sarah. Michell describes it as awonderfully pluralistic English movie with lots of stories meeting and minglingin that incredible stew of the marathon it s very, very moving.It s all classes, all ages and all ethnicities. Race director David Bedford is working closely with theproduction. He is keen to give us all access to all parts of the race onrace day, Michell said. He added that the filmmakers plan to use 15cameras to film during t
stanley cup he actual race.Meanwhile, Michell is attached to direct The Rip, the David Logan-scripted drama about the plan tostage a diamond robber at the London Millennium Dome. The film is based looselyon the real-life incident in which a gang of criminals raided the Dome inGreen
stanley cup wich in 2000. Michell characterises the project as a big, brainless,clever heist movie. Logan is currently working on a new draft of thescript.Michell is also attached to direct a new version of HuckleberryFinn from a script by Michael Tolkin.Paramount is backing the project, which Michell is billing it as thefirst adult ve Rgsb Kinepolis Group s Albert Bert dies, aged 74
Dir/scr:Jorge Gaggero. Arg-Sp. 2004. 87mins.Jorge Gaggero sprize-winning Live-In Maid Cama Adentro is a wonderfully touching,understated two-hander from Argentina which has been an audience-pleaser at theSan Sebastian, Brussels and Sundance film festivals. Indeed, it won a specialjury prize in the inaugural world drama competition section of Sundance. Its release in Argentina has been pencilled in for May.Boasting astuteperformances by Argentinian veteran Norma Aleandro and newcomer NormaArgentina, it s a little jewel of a film running only to 87 minutes and it willneed careful handling to achieve any theatrical profile outsideSpanish-speaking territories. If anything, it marks the emergence of a vibrantnew talent from Argentina in director Gaggero whose directorial debut this is.The media story here, whichmight prove valua
stanley us ble as a marketing hook for distributors, is the casting ofArgentina as
stanley cup Dora, the live-in maid to an affluent Buenos Aires woman. The56-year-old had previously worked as a housekeeper herself for 20 years and wasone of 1000 amateur and professional actors and housekeepers who auditioned forthe role in March 2003. The fact that this is her acting debut and that sheholds her own against Aleandro is incredible; that she was a professionalhousekeeper herself adds to the piquancy of the film.The film is set against thebackdrop of the curr
stanley cup ent economic crisis in Argentina. Aleandro plays an ageingsingle divorcee from the upper middle class called Beba, whose dau
