2 European Movies w/ Skating

[viennese]

Skating figures prominently in two European movies I have seen recently. Check 'em out if you can.

IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE (Denmark/US). Played at festivals, will be out soon.
CAST: Claire Danes, Joaquin Phoenix.
STORY: Very strange, offbeat romance/mystery set in the near future. Phoenix plays a man trying to meet up with his estranged wife (Danes), an Olympic champion figure skater. Her business managers say she wants him to sign divorce papers and get it over with, but every time they meet, sparks fly. Are they hiding something?
SKATING DETAILS: Danes' skating double is Mikkeline Kierkegaard, the former Danish champion. We see bits of a pro ice show and rehearsal/spins under lights

MY LIFE ON ICE (France) Video/VHS
STORY: A film in the form of a video diary, it's the story of a French teenager whose obsessions are: figure skating, his video camera, and (though he doesn't acknowledge it) his confused sexual identity. He's 15 or 16 and he feels really alone.
SKATING DETAILS: the lead actor is a real skater. We see him do his own double axels, triple toe-double toe, and combination spins, no cuts or trick photography, though a competition sequence is chopped up. Not sure what level he'd be at in the US; like many European skaters, his rink is closed in summer!

[who]

Thanks Viennese...are they in English?

[Trillian]

It's All About Love is in English; the three lead actors (Danes, Phoenix, and Sean Penn) are American. The director, Thomas Vinterberg (who has received a lot of critical acclaim for his rather inventive films in the past) is Danish; hence the European background of the movie. It was actually filmed in quite a few locations around the world, not just Europe or the U.S., in the summer of 2001.

Its only U.S. release, AFAIK, was at the Sundance Film Festival last January, where it apparently wasn't that well received. I don't know what European critics have said because most of the reviews I've come across are in German, which I don't read. I don't know if there are any plans for a U.S. theatrical release (highly unlikely), but it should hit DVD/video eventually. Considering the stars, Blockbuster will probably have a copy or two when it first comes out, or you could always order it online. Vinterberg's movies are definitely not for a mainstream audience and I don't know if skating plays much of a role, though, so it may not be worth the trouble of seeking it out unless you're a film buff. (I'll see it when I get a chance, personally. :))

Here's the official site. I haven't taken the time to look through it, but I can already tell by the way it's loading that you'd better have a fast connection.
http://www.tvropa.com/itsallaboutlove/

[viennese]

"It's All About Love" is definitely not a mainstream movie, as Trillian says.

The whole world of the movie has a strange, wintry mood, so it fits that the heroine is an ice skater. Claire Danes does a sort of Eastern European/Slavic accent that is never fully explained.

There's not a huge amoung of skating Show-style choreography, spotlights, that kind of thing.