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in VOD & Home Entertainment / 25.10.2021

Watch online: Lassie Come Home

Lassie Come Home is now available on Play.HappyCinema.ro!

Flo's best friend is his Collie Lassie. When his family is forced to give the dog away, Flo is heartbroken. But Lassie isn’t easily separated from Flo and embarks on an adventurous journey across Germany, a journey back to her beloved friend Flo.

Based on Eric Knight's book Lassie Come Home.

Lassie, the most famous dog in the history of films, returns with an exciting new adventure that will warm our hearts.

The emotional story of this inseparable friendship will resonate not only with pet lovers, but also with those who have not forgotten to be children.

Watch online here: https://play.happycinema.ro/programs/lassie_come_home




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in Events / 28.05.2021

Everything is On the Line: The Hummingbird Project is now in cinemas!

Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård and Salma Hayek stars in acclaimed director Kim Nguyen's The Hummingbird Project which will be released in Romanian cinemas starting May 28.

Cousins from New York, Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High-Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a straight fiber-optic cable line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair.

Constantly breathing down their necks is their former boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek), a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and beat them at their own game.

The Hummingbird Project can be seen starting today in selected theatres across Romania and online on Play.HappyCinema.ro




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in Events / 07.05.2021

Wasp Network – now in cinemas!

Wasp Network can be seen starting today in cinemas!

Wasp Network is a captivating and elegant political thriller, who is bringing you a veritable gallery of Cuban crooks and Cuban-American exiles, who have engaged in a complex battle and deeply nuanced by competing ideologies and changing loyalties.

Directed by Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Personal Shopper) and starring Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez and Gael García Bernal, Wasp Network can be seen starting today in the Happy Cinema network and online on Play.HappyCinema.ro




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in Events / 12.03.2021

The Wedding Year opens today in Romanian cinemas

Prorom and Happy Cinema will release on March 12th in Romanian cinemas Robert Luketic’s comedy The Wedding Year, starring Sarah Hyland, Tyler James Williams and Jenna Dewan.

In The Wedding Year, a young woman's relationship with a phobia of commitments is put to the test when she and her new boyfriend have to go to no less than 7 weddings in the same year.

7 weddings in a year! Will Mara and Jake end up living "happily ever after"? Find out by watching the comedy The Wedding Year for the first time in Romania in cinemas, and on the VOD platform Play.HappyCinema.ro

The comedy is directed by Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, 21, The Ugly Truth) and stars Sarah Hyland, Tyler James Williams, Jenna Dewan, Anna Camp, Keith David, Patrick Warburton and Wanda Sykes.

The Wedding Year will be release in 5 cinemas of the Happy Cinema network from Romania: Buzau, Focsani, Alexandria, Bistrita, Bacau on Friday, March 12th.

The Wedding Year can be seen both at the cinema and online on the Play.HappyCinema.ro platform.

For cinema program: https://www.happycinema.ro/happy-buzau/m/anul-nuntilor-1448

For watching online: https://play.happycinema.ro/programs/anul-nuntilor-the-wedding-year




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in Interviews / 06.03.2021

Interview with Valerie Bonneton and Benoit Poelvoorde: “The Chamodots are a family in whom everyone can recognise themselves.”

This weekend, Venice Calling (directed by Ivan Calbérac) is released in the Romanian cinemas.

On this occasion, we bring you an exciting interview with the principal cast: Benoît Poelvoorde and Valérie Bonneton.

Benoît, what made you want to accept this project?
Benoît Poelvoorde: I found the script very funny. And then it’s a true story, part of which the director experienced himself, and that moved me. He wrote a novel about it first before writing the script. I read them both, I liked them both equally, then I said: “Yes, OK, I’ll do it, but with whom?” For comedy to work, there must be right chemistry between you and your co-actors.

Valérie, when Benoît knew that Ivan Calbérac was thinking of you to play his wife, he also called you. What did he say to persuade you?
Valérie Bonneton: “There’ll be two or three nude scenes, they’ll be fine... don’t worry!” (laughs). More seriously, as soon as I read the script, I wanted to be part of this family: the Chamodots. Together, they make their way through life’s ups and downs, even though the two sons are a bit ashamed of their parents. Despite what Émile goes through and the fact that he must bear barmy neurotic parents and day-to-day life in a caravan, there’s a lot of love between them, certainly some awkwardness but above all, love. That’s what touched me.
Benoît Poelvoorde: They are nevertheless exemplary parents when it comes to patience and generosity. Launching into a journey to Italy just because the little one wants to find his love in Venice... I don’t know many parents who would do that!

Ivan Calbérac says you both resemble his own parents a little. Do you recognise yourselves in Annie and Bernard?
Benoît Poelvoorde: Yes, in his “Mister Know-it-all” attitude. A guy who shows off all the time. That’s exactly me! (laughs).
Valérie Bonneton: Annie accepts that by educating, one makes fatal mistakes. Like her, I try to accept them. I’ve got little ones of my own.

Valérie, you say you take a long time considering the angle from which to approach a role...
Valérie Bonneton: Yes, I read the script then put it aside for a while. For this film, I relied on the script then trusted to the alchemy with my partner and the director. Once on set, I didn’t know how Benoît was going to play it. My acting also depends on his, and on the director’s instructions. Then I just go with the flow. I like the idea of not knowing what’s going to happen.

Moving on to Hélie Thonnat, he is in almost all the scenes. How did you approach them with him?
Valérie Bonneton: I’d say always in the same way: Benoît enjoyed making him laugh before every take.
Benoît Poelvoorde: It’s a way of making children relax when facing difficulty. There are different ways of putting them at their ease: the Austrian way, the German way and then my way, which is all about making funny insinuations. I think Hélie now has an unusually large vocabulary of crude words! But what could be better? When you laugh, you forget why you’re there, and once it starts, you act naturally.
Valérie Bonneton: Benoît behaves like that with me too. As soon as the camera’s rolling he gives it his all. He’s a magnificent actor. But between every take, he tells jokes. Being distracted before a scene, I love that. Then when we start to shoot, that gives me an adrenalin boost, which means I’m much more present.

What sets Valérie apart from other actresses?
Benoît Poelvoorde: Her joie de vivre and her acting! She acts exceedingly well, she’s the best! And then she’s not fussy. She’s not the type to call over to the director with questions like: “Tell me, Ivan, what psychological angle do you want to convey when my character acts like this or that?” Nothing’s complicated with Valérie. It’s a joy to film with her. I had a blast. And she’s naturally generous. She likes people to be cheerful around her, so makes sure they’re happy. Valérie is a real ray of sunshine.

And you, Valérie, what is special about Benoît?
Benoît Poelvoorde: The same but more so (he laughs).
Valérie Bonneton: Benoît is a good person, truly kind. In this profession you sometimes meet people who aren’t like that at all... also naming no names ;-)
Benoît Poelvoorde: It’s funny that you’re not asking for some names (he laughs). Would you like some?...

Benoît, in the film we see you enjoying a song: Black Blood’s A.I.E (A Mwana), which you sing at the top of your voice in the car...
Benoît Poelvoorde: Oh wow! Don’t remind me of that tune ... Particularly as I’m going back to Namur by car... I was belting out that song for an entire day. It’s nice when you hear it once, but eight hours of A.I.E (A Mwana) blaring out ... It’s really proof that cinema’s just laughter and glitter.

You relax others but how do you relax?
Benoît Poelvoorde: I go away by myself to read. I read, I read, immersed in book after book.

How did your shooting go in Venice?
Benoît Poelvoorde: Three weeks before we left, Valérie was all fired up: “Great! We’re going to Venice”. I told her: “You’ll see, it won’t be as simple as that”. Valérie saw herself dressed in black, preparing pasta alla vongole with Italian friends around her, or on a candlelit gondola floating off into the night. But once you’re there, you work. And for that, Venice isn’t practical. I’ll always remember one sequence: just for that, I should have been paid three times my salary!
I’m with my son - Hélie Thonnat - a beautiful setting at the edge of the lagoon. And 10 seconds later, we’re being attacked by a thousand mosquitoes. It was hellish, even though they seemed to appreciate the child’s fresh young skin rather than my leathery old face!
Valérie Bonneton: But it was fantastic too! I was staying in a little cabin on the edge of the lagoon...

One specific theme addressed by the film is the influence of education, of transmission. What do you think about the issue:
Benoît Poelvoorde: You very quickly descend into clichés when you talk about the family. I’d prefer to let Valérie answer. She understands the problem better because she has two children.
Valérie Bonneton: Many parents pass things they’ve found difficult on to their offspring. It’s important not to make your children relive your failures. The film shows that loving them is respecting them, accepting them as they are. It seems simple when you say it like that, but it’s actually very complicated.

What do you think makes this film attractive to the public?
Benoît Poelvoorde: Its humour, and characters who are a bit crazy but full of love. This trip to Italy.
Valérie Bonneton: And the Chamodots: an eccentric, special family, full of tenderness, moving and funny... In whom everyone can recognise themselves... Irresistible people, in the sense that they accept who they are!

Venice Calling can be seen both at the cinema and online on the Play.HappyCinema.ro platform.

For cinema program: https://happycinema.ro/happy-bucuresti/m/chemarea-venetiei-1444

For watching online: https://play.happycinema.ro/programs/chemarea-venetiei-venice-calling




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in Events / 05.03.2021

Venice Calling opens today in Romanian cinemas

Prorom will release on March 5th in Romanian cinemas Ivan Calbérac’s comedy Venice Calling (Venise n'est pas en Italie), starring Benoît Poelvoorde, Valérie Bonneton, Oudesh Rughooputh and Gigi Ledron.

Venice Calling is the adaptation of the book with the same title by Ivan Calbérac and will be release in 6 cinemas of the Happy Cinema network from Romania: Bucuresti, Buzau, Focsani, Alexandria, Bistrita, Bacau on Friday, March 5th.

Emile is fifteen. He lives in Montargis, between a sweet-crazy father and a mother who has always dyed his hair blond, because, it seems, he is more beautiful like that. When the girl who pleases him more than anything invites him to Venice for the holidays, he is overjoyed.

But there is one problem - his parents decide to accompany him! This is the story of a teenager born into an unclassifiable family, the story of a first love, miraculous and fragile.

This is the story of an initiatory and incredible journey where life often takes unawares, but where Venice, it will be at the rendezvous.

Venice Calling can be seen both at the cinema and online on the Play.HappyCinema.ro platform.

For cinema program: https://happycinema.ro/happy-bucuresti/m/chemarea-venetiei-1444

For watching online: https://play.happycinema.ro/programs/chemarea-venetiei-venice-calling




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