This is an unnoticed surprise...

Partition was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival this past Friday and again today Tuesday the 13th for the 2007 European Film Market.

To view Partition info click here!

Kristin's Smallville co-star Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) talks about working and kissing Kristin in a interview with Zap2it.com:

Although the show is in its sixth season, Rosenbaum and Kreuk haven't had a huge amount of scenes together prior to this storyline.

"We never got to work together that much," Rosenbaum says. "This season happened, and we started having some chemistry. I'd say that [in the past], we weren't fond of each other. We're complete opposites. She's very reserved; I'm kind of out there, a little eccentric. We never really connected.

"This year, I don't know what happened, but one day she said, 'I really like working with you.' And I said, 'I like working with you.' When we go in there, we have a lot of chemistry. We're starting to get each other."

But it took a bit of work. "Those first few kisses," Rosenbaum says, "she wasn't the one who was nervous. It was me. And everybody was laughing.

"She's a pretty good kisser. You didn't ask me, but it's nice, I'll tell you that. It's not bad kissing her. It's not like, 'Uh, great, let's get it over with, but you owe me.' It's good."

To read the full interview click here.

The Partition reviews have died down since it's been over a week since the movie released, but I just came across this one just moments ago:

From Exclaim.ca

That Kreuk is being asked to play an Indian Muslim should tell you how much of a deck these people are playing with, though to be fair, she gives the only full-bodied performance in the whole thing.

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From [url=]The Gazette[/url]:

David Reckziegel is co-president of Seville Pictures, purveyor to the upper-end market with current films like Pedro Almodovar's Volver and Vic Sarin's Partition, neither of which has travelled west of AMC, in the old Forum...

...He's learning how important particular communities are to the success of a particular film. Sarin's Partition is a Sikh-Muslim love story set against the India-Pakistan separation of 1947. Across the country, people with South Asian connections are flocking to it.

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From TV Guide:

Is Lana ever going to find out Clark's secret? I love Tom and Kristin [Kreuk]'s chemistry. — Faraway17
Gough: We agree that Tom and Kristin do have great chemistry as actors, but you'll have to keep watching to see how much Lana will find out.

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The Partition soundtrack is featured as the soundtrack of the month over at Streaming Soundtracks.com.

You can view the Partition soundtrack page by clicking here!

Thanks to leslie for the info!

From Eye.net:

Smallville's Kristin Kreuk stars in Partition as a Muslim girl displaced by the 1947 partitioning of India. It's contrived, hottie-out-of-water casting, but the Vancouver-born actress acquits herself quite nicely. It's the film around her that sets eyes to rolling, leaving no cliché unturned as it sloughs slowly towards tragedy.

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From Tribute.ca:

- Only the most cynical of people would not love the classic film.

- Awesome cinematography. Gripping story and performances by lead characters. Highly recommend it!

- It`s trip into a foreign and beautiful culture, with many excellent characters in it who touch the human soul. Although this gorgeous movie is set at a specific time and space, where contrary belief-systems have resulted in war and separation - in its essence it`s a timeless and universal love-story that speaks about true love which knows no boundaries. And the movie has even more to offer, it shows the richness & beauty of rural India in its everyday life. I love it.. well worth seeing on a big screen!

- It was good movie for revealing what possibly happened during partition and those affected by it. Some beautiful cinematography, especially of the mustard seed plants. Both leads were phenomenal in their acting. Although Kristen Kreuk looked borderline middle-eastern, she acted as best she could as a Muslim woman in love with a Sikh man. Her performance and beauty truly stands-out on film.

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From Playbackmag.com:

Following a substantial push by Seville Pictures, Partition managed respectable receipts over its opening weekend, earning $98,961 on 28 screens at the Canuck box office.

The historical drama -- about a star-crossed couple in 1940s India, played by Vancouver native Kristin Kreuk and Britain's Jimi Mistry -- had a nationwide per-screen average of $3,534 in markets including Montreal, Toronto, Halifax and Vancouver. Sales at the Paramount theater in Vancouver topped all other locations, generating more than $8,000 over the weekend.

The $10-million film is directed by Vic Sarin and arrived in theaters on Feb. 2 with a $400,000 promotional push from Seville.

"[The overall box office is] slightly lower than we expected, but we are quite happy with the numbers in Vancouver. One of our main goals was to reach the South Asian community and it looks like we were able to do so," says Seville spokesperson Ariane Giroux-Dallaire.

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