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2008-03-10



2007-10-15
New festival landscape 2008


2007-10-15
Watch the Festival TV


2007-10-04
Winners of The Golden Swans 2007


2007-09-29
Gala Award Show 2007


2007-09-28
Kim Fupz Aakeson to receive an Honorary Award
When Copenhagen International Film Festival rolls out the red carpet for the Gala Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 29 September, the Danish screenwriter Kim Fupz Aakeson will be presented with an Honorary Award.

2007-09-24
Sweepingly beautiful costumes and Israeli Night
Read about today´s events - Talkie with Manon Rasmussen and Israeli night

2007-09-23
Meet the director of Heartbeat Detector
come to the Turkish Night, see Ingmar Bergman´s masterpiece Shame and get behind the camera with Spielberg

2007-09-22
The Black Pimpernel - one of the real world´s heroes
Copenhagen International Film Festival proudly invites you to the preview screening of The Black Pimpernel on Sunday, 23 September.

2007-09-21
Festive gala opening ceremony in Imperial


2007-09-18
Makram Khoury replaces Gillies MacKinnon in the jury


2007-09-17
Spielberg on Spielberg - behind the camera
Copenhagen International Film Festival will be the first festival to screen the brand-new documentary Spielberg on Spielberg, where the audience will have a unique possibility to step behind the camera with the director.

2007-09-13
The festival´s guests
The stars are waiting in the wings for the kick-off on 20 September, when Copenhagen International Film Festival fades up for 10 days of tribute to European films and the capital’s cinemas fill up with world-famous and upcoming film directors and actors.

2007-09-13
New Danish Screen
Copenhagen International Film Festival proudly welcomes you to the premieres of a string of exciting films from New Danish Screen.

2007-09-06
Tribute to Bergman and Renoir
Copenhagen International Film Festival will look back at two of Europe’s great filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman and Jean Renoir.

2007-09-04
This year’s nominations for the Alice Award
Eight films by female directors are this year competing for Copenhagen International Film Festival’s women’s award – the Alice Award.

2007-08-31
Jury 2007


2007-08-30
Patrice Leconte to attend Copenhagen IFF
Patrice Leconte will attend the French Day at Copenhagen International Film Festival.

2007-08-28
Kenneth Branagh to attend Copenhagen IFF
The Oscar-nominated director and actor Kenneth Branagh will attend this year’s film festival.

2007-08-27
This year’s competition films
When Copenhagen International Film Festival fades up for this year’s film event on 20 September, the audience can experience 147 fantastic films. 11 of them will get special attention, namely the films in competition, which compete for the six categories of the festival’s Golden Swan award.

2007-08-23
Israeli film in the competition
Israeli film will play an important role at Copenhagen International Film Festival. This year, the festival’s competition series will feature the Israeli film The Band’s Visit, and the festival has decided to dedicate a whole series to Israeli film.

2007-08-20
This year´s festival is kicked off with The Diving Bell and concluded with Sleuth
Julian Schnabel’s Cannes-award-winning The Diving Bell and the Butterfly will open this year’s Copenhagen International Film Festival, and the 10 days of European film will be rounded off with Kenneth Branagh’s Sleuth.

2007-08-17
Come to the program launch
Copenhagen International Film Festival will launch this year’s program with both a biographical drama and a zombie thriller on Sunday, 2 September.

2007-08-13
New head of BUSTER
Füsun Eriksen has been appointed as the new head of BUSTER and will take up office on 1 September 2007

Patrice Leconte to attend Copenhagen IFF

 

Come to the Scandinavian premiere of Patrice Leconte’s latest film My Best Friend on Saturday, 22 September at 2130 hrs in Dagmar, and enjoy this wonderful comedy in the company of the film’s director.

The film is the highlight of the festival’s French Day, which also includes I Do: How to get married and stay single, The Candidate and Blame it on Fidel, as well as guests such as Niels Arestrup and Julie Gavras.

Patrice Leconte

My best friend
My Best Friend is a comedy with Daniel Auteuil in top form as the skilled but insensitive antique dealer François. His business partner makes him take part in an apparently easy bet: within 10 days, François has to introduce her to his best friend. To his own great surprise, François has to acknowledge that he simply doesn’t have any friends, and his pathetic attempts to seek out old acquaintances are hilarious. In desperation, he asks a talkative taxi driver, Bruno (Dany Boon), if he can help him. It turns out that Bruno is as good at talking, as he’s bad at committing himself. It is a true pleasure to see the two brilliant actors beating about the bush, and the clever entertainment is far more thought-provoking and moving than one might expect. Watching My Best Friend, you can’t avoid thinking about your own life and friendships.

My Best Friend can be seen in the Masters series, which celebrates a number of the film industry’s veterans that are still going strong. Apart from Patrice Leconte’s My Best Friend, the series also includes new films by the filmmakers John Boorman (Britain), André Téchiné (France), Alexander Sokurov (Russia), Volker Schlöndorff (Germany) and the brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Italy).

My Best Friend will also be screened on 26 September at 2130 hrs in Park Bio.

Patrice Leconte
Born 1947 in France. He was trained at the film school in Paris in the 1960s and has worked as a comic book artist, which influenced his first films, which were all comedies. He is known for both commercial as well as art house films, like the international breakthrough Monsieur Hire (1989). He has since made films such as The Hairdresser’s Husband (1990) and the Oscar-nominated Ridicule (1996). His previous film Friends Forever (2006) sold 11.2 million tickets in France.

My Best Friend

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