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Daniel Bruhl is reuniting with the director of Good Bye Lenin for a new film, Ich und Kaminski, which will be released in 2010. No other stars have been announced yet, but we know Daniel will play a character called Sebastian, a young journalist writing an article on an artist called Manuel Kaminski.

Speaking of cute foreign-language actors, Gael Garcia Bernal’s new film is out this weekend in the UK. Rudo y Cursi reunites Gael with Diego Luna and the makers of their previous film, Y Tu Mama Tambien, and the storyline involves Gael becoming a popstar!

The third in my trio of favourite foreign actors is Romain Duris, and he also has a new film out soon. Afterwards is his first film in English, but sadly it doesn’t look like my kind of film at all. After Moliére and Paris were both a little disappointing, I think I must concede that Romain will never live up to L’Auberge Espagnol.

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• The wonderful Swedish director Lukas Moodysson is currently hard at work on his first English-language film, Mammoth, and I was extremely excited to hear that it will star the beautiful and brilliant Gael Garcia Bernal! I could hardly dream up a better pairing so I’m bursting in anticipation to find out more and see the film when it’s finished, although it sadly won’t be out until 2009!

• Now out in Europe is the new film directed by and starring the lovely Julie Delpy, best known for the ace films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. It’s called 2 Days In Paris and is a bit more of a mainstream comedy of culture clashes, but it still looks good and it seems to be doing quite well as well, so perhaps it will help some more people discover her previous work.

• One of my favourite books of all time is Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, and the TV series of it is considered a classic, so the new film version has a lot to live up to. I’m sure Emma Thompson will rise to the challenge as Lady Marchmain, but I’m less sure of Matthew Goode, who was quite wooden in Chasing Liberty and Imagine Me And You, as the lead character Charles Ryder.