French film festival Panorama tours China

April 07, 2009 The sixth annual French Film Panorama in China will officially open Thursday in Beijing as Juliette Binoche and director Cedric Klapisch will screen their 2008 film "Paris" and follow that with a Q&A with the audience. Christine Pernin, chief representative here for cultural promotion agency UniFrance, said French films have suffered no ill effects from China's displeasure at French President Nicolas Sarkozy's December meeting with the Dalai Lama nor from a Chinese boycott of French products last spring after the Beijing Olympics torch relay was disrupted in Paris by pro-Tibet supporters. Chinese moviegoers are eager to see imported films and the Panorama is a rare opportunity to see French cinema on the country's growing number of big screens.

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