European Films

The Wind that Shakes The Barley

Curious about this year’s Cannes winner that come out of nowhere? Allocine.co.uk has the trailer for The Wind that Shakes The Barley, the Irish independence war drama from Ken Loach film that stars Cillian Murphy and won this year’s Golden Palm.

Allocine’s French sister, Allocine.fr, has two interesting trailers (or “bande-annonces” as they call them) up: the first is for the Un certain regard opener Paris je t’aime (Paris, I Love You), a romantic anthology from various directors including Gérard Depardieu, Olivier Assayas, Wes Craven, Joel and Ethan Coen, Tom Tykwer, Gus Van Sant, Isabel Coixet and Walter Salles (tip: scroll down for several “making of” features on the same page), and the second trailer is for the animated Azur et Asmar (Azur and Asmar) from Kirikou-director Michel Ochelot, which was part of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and tells the story of a friendship between a blond and a black boy.

More animated fun from France: the trailer of the Luc Besson-scripted and directed Arthur et les minimoys (Arthur and the Minimoys). The English version has the voices of Finding Neverland’s Freddie Highmore, Madonna, David Bowie and Mia Farrow. The original fairy tale will premiere in France in December.

The official website for the Anglo-Canadian-Icelandic Beowolf and Grendel epic has been up for a while, and it also has the official trailer for the film that stars Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård and Sarah Polley.

The Danish website filmtrailer.dk (formerly play.dk) has a short teaser for the adult animated film Princess, which opened the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes, and a full trailer for the new Jensen and Jensen (as in Thomas Vilum Jensen and Anders Thomas Jensen) comedy Sprængfarlig bombe (Explosive Bomb), which reteams the siblings from Brødre (Brothers): Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Ulrich Thomsen and casts them as a famous Danish film director and a disgruntled cinema-goer who has just come out of jail respectively.