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Cannes Film Festival - we were there!

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The Cannes Film Festival in France! Today we rubbed shoulders with celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival. Or did we? We've been watching from afar anyway! We find that Cannes is a beautiful city on the French Riviera with everything from the charming old town to the famous La Croisette promenade. Join us in Cannes, France!

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Preview: Tracks

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Tonight we attended a preview of the Australian film Tracks, which has its official Swedish premiere on 13 June. The film is the true story of Robyn Davidson, who in 1977 walked through 2700 kilometres of desert until she reached the Indian Ocean, and is based on the best-selling book "On Camelback through the Desert".

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Travel in the footsteps of film characters

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An article in DN says that all pilgrimages are no longer to Mecca, Rome or Jerusalem. Pop culture tourism means that hordes of fans flock to the small American town of Forks or to Ystad. Is there any place on earth that you would like to visit because of a film or a book?

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Film tips: The Hobbit - an unexpected journey

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Sometimes it can be nice to dream away in a completely different world, and that's what we did yesterday when we saw 'The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey' at the cinema. This is the first film of three, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's bestseller Bilbo - the adventures of a hobbit, which was published in 1937 and begins the story that then continues with The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien wrote the book to amuse himself and his children, but obviously many more people have been amused ...

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Film tip: Memoirs of a geisha

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Last night we rewatched one of our favourite films: Memoirs of a geisha. This 2005 American film follows a poor Japanese girl from the day she is sold as a slave to a geisha house to her life as a prominent geisha. If you missed it, watch it!

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Film tips: The Adjustment Bureau

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Here's another film tip for a rainy summer evening. The Adjustment Bureau is science fiction, thriller and drama at the same time. Matt Damon plays a young politician with a promising career. When he meets the woman of his dreams, Elise, Fate (played by costumed men from a Divine Authority) steps in to stop the relationship.

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Film tips: Unknown

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Imagine waking up, in a foreign country, after an accident and four days in a coma. You remember who you are and what your business is in the country, but no one believes you are you and your wife calls another man by your name.

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Film tips: The way back

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We have seen The way back, starring Ed Harris, Colin Farrell and Gustav Skarsgård among others. As the film begins, we are thrown into a dirty and cold labour camp in Siberia during World War II. Most of the prisoners are sentenced to ten or twenty years of hard labour and some of them decide that they would rather die as free men than break down in captivity.

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Film tips: Revenge

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In the Danish film Revengeby Susanne Bier, Mikael Persbrandt plays a doctor trying to patch up dismembered women in a broken Africa. Back home in Denmark, the divorce is about to become a fact while the bullied son finally finds a mate.

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Film tips: The ghost writer

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In the film The Ghost Writer, a politically disinterested writer (Ewan McGregor) is commissioned to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan). This is after the former ghost writer is killed in a tragic accident ...

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