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An old Jewish baker (Jonathan Pryce) sees his struggling business boom when his young apprentice (Jerome Holder) accidentally drops marijuana into the ...
MY WEEK WITH MARILYN is the true story of a star-struck boy who falls in love with the biggest celebrity in the world, Marilyn Monroe. 23 year-old Colin Clark was determined to break into the film business and his first job was The Prince and The Showgirl - the film that was set to be the smash hit of the year famously uniting the biggest stars of the day, Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier. On honeymoon in Britain with her new husband, Arthur Miller, Marilyn is excited about the project but quickly becomes desperate to run away from her Hollywood entourage, the pressures of work and the press who hound her. For Marilyn, Colin is a welcome antidote and he offers her everything she craves when, together, they escape the film set to get closer in an idyllic Britain. An all-star cast including Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Dame Judi Dench, Dougray Scott , Emma Watson, Dominic Cooper and Zoe Wanamaker.
Small-time estate agent, Dino (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), seizes a chance to climb the local social-ladder when dropping his beautiful daughter Serena (Matilde Gioli) off to visit her boyfriend Massimiliano (Guglielmo Pinelli) – the son of Giovanni Bernaschi (Fabrizio Gifuni), a hot-shot hedge-fund investor, at a large villa on the edge of town. Making up the fourth man in a game of tennis doubles, his natural sporting ability and opportunistic eye provide him an unlikely entrance to a world where making money is both easy and fast. Depending on your access to the right amount of capital, that is. When Giovanni suggests Dino join his latest fund scheme, with a mere €500,000, Dino, is so desperate to be a part of the Bernaschi circle that he puts his own house and business up as collateral. When a cyclist is the victim of an accidental hit-and-run after a school awards ceremony one night just before Christmas the destinies of these two families are catastrophically interwoven and a mystery emerges from the accident that centres around the two misunderstood and emotionally neglected teenagers. Coinciding with the sudden onset of the financial crisis – a situation that threatens the immediate security of the rich and aspiring-rich alike, cracks quickly start to emerge. From the rich and bored wife Carla (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), with misguided aspirations of artistic patronage, this multi-layered human drama serves up an absorbing treatise on how the rich can ride roughshod over the ‘little people’ when their security is threatened Human Capital, is a gripping and thrilling drama with a mystery at its centre – who was driving the jeep that fateful night and what will the consequences be – for all involved? Human Capital will be released by Arrow Films in select cinemas across the UK on 26th September.
Gerard Butler stars as George in "Playing for Keeps", the heartfelt new romantic comedy from the director of "The Pursuit of Happyness". George is trying to put his life back together again after numerous set-backs, as well as falling far from grace with his ex-wife, Stacie (Jessica Biel), and young son Lewis (Noah Lomax). In order to rebuild his relationship with Lewis, George agrees to coach his son's football team when the previous coach proves hopeless. George, however, doesn't anticipate the hilarious bevy of attractive single moms (with a cast including Catherine Zeta-Jones and Uma Thurman) who aggressively compete for his affections. How does George win back the affections of his son and ex-wife with these romantic and business entanglements complicating matters further? Find out when "Playing for Keeps" is released Nationwide in Cinemas on New Year's Day.
Far-right leader Jordan Bardella and Republicans leader Eric Ciotti, the driving force behind a 'coalition' between the mainstream right and the far-right National Rally in France's snap elections, appeared side by side for the first time since announcing their alliance at a major speech to business leaders in Paris. (COMPLETES VIDI34XT33W_EN, VIDI34XT7R8_EN, VIDI34XV2XW_EN, VIDI34XU2WT_EN and VIDI34XT7RZ_EN) IMAGES
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella and then Eric Ciotti of the mainstream Republicans (LR) came to the Medef to present their programmes to employers' organisations, as did representatives of the other main parties in the run-up to the French general election. (COMPLETES VIDI34XT33W_EN) IMAGES
France's main employers' organisation, the MEDEF, is holding hearings with party and coalition leaders ahead of the snap parliamentary elections. The leader of the centrist Horizons party, Edouard Philippe, is the first to be heard. IMAGES
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