Carice attended the premiere for “Ingrid Jonker” (Black Butterflies) in Paris, France earlier this week with director Paula van der Oest. The movie will hit theaters February 22nd in France.

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Bavaria Film International has closed a host of dals for Paula van der Oest’s Black Butterflies, including a US/Canada deal with Tribeca Enterprises.

The film is a drama starring Carice van Houten, Liam Cunningham and Rutger Hauer in the story of South African poet Ingrid Jonker.

Other key sales are to France (Zootrope), Middle East (Shooting Stars), CIS (Carmen), Brazil (Imovision), Latin America (HBO), Hong Kong (Edko), Colombia (Babilla), Mexico (Cinemas Nueva Era), Switzerland (Frenetic), Scandinavian (Future Film), Taiwan (Swallow Wings).

There is also buyer interest from Germany, the UK and other territories, Bavaria noted.

The film recently won three Dutch Film Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress.

“Black Butterflies has fulfilled all our expectations and has proven our collaboration with Dutch producers Frans van Gestel and Arnold Heslenfeld and their co-producing partners to be a very valuable one. Paula’s direction makes this film stand as an example of high quality filmmaking with ambition while still aiming to reach out to a broad audience,” stated Thorsten Ritter, Head of Bavaria Film International.

Black Butterflies is produced by Frans van Gestel (IDTV Film), Richard Claus (Cool Beans, Comet Film), Michael Auret (Spier Films) and Arry Voorsmit (Riba Film International). The production was supported by The Netherlands Film Fund, The Cobo Fund, NTR, and the Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa.

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We just added 29 medium quality portraits of Carice during the Tribeca Film Festival “Black Butterflies” portrait session, we now have 37 outtakes in total! Links and previews are below, and be sure to check them all in our gallery.

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The art magazine EyesIn sat down with Carice and director Paula van der Oest to talk about “Black Butterflies“.

We just came across a new segment of EuroNews which shows us the acceptance speech of Carice while accepting her award for Best Actress in a Narrative Movie during the Tribeca Film Festival. You can watch her speech below (around the 2:02 mark). She seems so overwhelmed and moved by the award, we are so proud of her!

Thank you South-Africa for this inspiration – oh my hart – less is more, thank you very much.

Carice already got praising reviews in her home country the Netherlands for her performance in “Black Butterflies“, but since the Tribeca Film Festival premiered the film in New York the US media is also reporting reviews. As you already know Carice won the Best Actress Award (for Narrative Film) during the festival for “Black Butterflies” and we hope the (limited) US release will follow soon.

As in “Black Book,” van Houten never shies away from the excesses and sometimes downright unlikability of her character, investing the role with a ferocious willfulness that often mistakes its object. To the credit of both van Houten and van der Oest, the poet is perceived as never being quite equal to her genius, which emerges despite the limitations of her conscious mind.
Variety Review, March 2011

[...] And she’s played by Carice van Houten (“Black Book”), a vibrant actress moviegoers should definitely know more about. Ms. van Houten’s spirited performance gives real backbone to the familiar arc of the self-destructive artist pushing against the social constraints of her time while engaging in turbulent relationships with difficult lovers and a repressive politico father.
Wall Street Journal, March 2011

Carice van Houten (“Black Book”) gives a disturbing portrayal of the emotionally unstable Jonker, a high-strung rebel rejected by her father (Rutger Hauer), a straitlaced Parliament minister.
New York Times, March 2011

Van Houten is both sensual and sensitive playing a mother, daughter, artist and alcoholic, often all at once. Her eyes are pools of emotion that director Paula van der Oest uses well, particularly to vex the infatuated Cope, dedicated to helping her even if she refuses. While he is openly racist and altogether monstrous.
Indiewire, March 2011

Carice already got praising reviews in her home country the Netherlands but since it premiered during the Tribeca Film Festival. Carice and director Paula van der Oest talked with Variety about the project, it makes us so proud “Black Butterflies” is so well received during the Tribeca Film Festival.

When asked how many films she’s made, van Houten (34 going on 17), dismisses any attempt to be accurate with a wave–”Oh so many, maybe 20.” Two of her better known films are Valkyrie and Black Book. In Black Butterflies, she is an impetuous Ingrid, flaunting her freedom by appearing nearly everywhere barefoot and in short shorts, hard-core flirting with men even within eyesight of Cope. “We knew she did these things, but we had to figure out why,” says van Houten. “So Paula (the director) and I talked about her motivation a lot. I have to talk about my roles until I completely understand them. Only then can I act my roles intuitively. We decided that given Ingrid’s personality, she flirted innocently, like a child, and not to hurt her lover or to make him jealous.”

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Examiner.com interviewed Carice during the Tribeca Film Festival. The video of the interview can be found below, Carice’s part begins around 5:25 mark. Excerpt of the interview can be read below as well.

On winning the Best Actress Award
“It’s my first American prize, I’m very very very excited!”

On her attraction to the role
“Well, first of all it was a very meaty part for me to do, after I did a film called ‘Black Book,’ it was a very heavy part as well, and after that I didn’t want to go do anything smaller than that, I just wanted to have the difficult stuff, especially somebody that actually lived was a challenge because you want to do it with respect and it was an important story I think.”

On her preparation for the role
“I read a lot about her, I talked to many people, I read her poetry of course and then I was completely filled with information and then afterwards you have to just cut it, you have to just stop it and just do it yourself because I don’t really believe that I can sort of become her. It’s my interpretation, or it’s our interpretation of the core of her character.”

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