EUROPEAN TUESDAY: TRAILERS AND POSTERS FOR PERIOD SET AWARD WINNING ITALIAN WW2 DRAMA FREAKS OUT AND DANISH THE PACT, BIOPIC ON OUT OF AFRICA AUTHOR

  FREAKS OUT TRAILER 

AWARD WINNING ITALIAN DRAMA

We're international today, first over in Italy, a trailer and poster for FREAKS OUT a fantasy movie which is out in Italy in October but has already

Freaks are out in Italian cinemas this October

won eight awards at Venice Film Festival. Matilde (Aurora Giovinazzo), Cencio (Pietro Castellitto), Fulvio (Claudio Santamaria) and Mario (Giancarlo Martini) are family when the 2nd world war hits Rome. Israel (Giorgio Tarabassi), the owner of their circus, disappears in the attempt to find a getaway overseas for them all. The four friends are in disarray. Without anyone looking after them but above all, without the circus, they lose their social placement and they feel only as sideshow attractions on the loose in a city at war. The 14 million worth movie was both directed and written by Gabriele Mainetti.

 

 

 THE PACT MOVIE TRAILER 

 KAREN BLIXEN BIOPIC

The Pact aired in Denmark earlier this August

Over in Denmark, we have a biopic of another famous writer: THE PACT, which already played in domestic cinemas, was directed by Bille August.  Aged 63 Karen Blixen (Birthe Neumann), the author of Out of Africa, is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous African adventure only to return to Denmark in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. She is an isolated genius, however, until the day she lays eyes on a handsome 30 year old poet (Simon Bennebjerg). She promises him literary stardom if he in return will obey her

The film was directed by Hollywood director Bille August

unconditionally - even at the cost of him losing everything else in his life. The film is a heart-wrenching story of a sorcerer and her apprentice, about how far you will go for love and art.

'OUT OF AFRICA' TO BECOME TV SERIES! DELIGHTFUL 'TIME OF THEIR LIVES' TRAILER WITH JOAN COLLINS, PAULINE COLLINS, JOELY RICHARDSON, FRANCO NERO

'OUT OF AFRICA'

 TO BE TURNED INTO TV SERIES

Here's another period set new TV series for us: Karen Blixen's famous memoirs OUT OF AFRICA, which were once turned into a classic movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, will be turned into a TV series. The Night Manager's Susan Bier is to produce and also direct the small screen adaptation which  recounts the seventeen years that Blixen spent in Africa in the Ngong Hills of Kenya during the last decades of the British Empire as she searched to find her role and voice in a changing world. Heyday Television, known for Harry Potter, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Gravity and Paddington, is producing.

'THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES'

TRAILER WITH PAULINE COLLINS, JOAN COLLINS, FRANCO NERO

Speaking of strong ladies, check out the trailer for lovely comedy drama THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES out next month starring acting legends Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Franco Nero and Joely Richardson.

Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover's funeral on glamorous French hideaway Ile-de-Re, former Hollywood siren Helen (Joan Collins) escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla (Pauline Collins), a repressed English housewife stuck in a bad marriage. Pooling their limited resources, they hit the road together by coach, ferry, car and foot in a race to get to the funeral on time, becoming entangled in a love triangle with a reclusive Italian millionaire (Franco Nero) along the way. On this unforgettable journey, they find true friendship in one another - and have the time of their lives.