Jacquot's 'Queen' to start Berlinale

BERLIN -- French director Benoit Jacquot's historic drama "Ces Adieux a la reine" (Farewell My Full) will open this year's Berlin Film Festival. The variation of Chantal Thomas' award-winning novel stars Diane Kruger, Jum Seydoux ("Evening amount of time in Paris") and Virginie Ledoyen ("Military of Crime"). "Farewell My Full" tales the initial occasions of french Revolution within the perspective in the servants at Versailles although drawing parallels to the present: as unrest evolves within the court docket of Louis XVI, everyone thinks of running, including Marie Antoinette (Kruger) and her entourage, incorporated within this lady-in-waiting Sidonie Laborde (Seydoux). Involved in your competitors, french-The the spanish language language co-production will vie for Berlin's Golden Bear against such photos as Brillante Mendoza's terrorist drama "Captive," starring Isabelle Huppert, Antonio Chavarrias' "Childish Games" and Edwin's "Postcards Within the Zoo." The Berlinale runs Feb. 9-19. Contact Erection dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com