The debut film was presented at the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari as part of the Bif&st in concorso nella sezione Panorama Internazionale E’ un film che ricorda tanto lo stile di Marco Ferreri con paesaggio stilizzato nelle forme geometriche più minimalizzate dove le scritte al neon indicano allo spettatore il percorso del regista. The incipit shows us a music composer who is interrupted by the crying of his newborn daughter. The battle between musical notes and silence begins like this. On the other hand, the disturbing script takes us to another world: a dating motel the
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#CONSPIRACY in Cairo aka #BOYFROMHEAVEN by Tarik SALEH
Presented at the Cannes Film Festival, a biting film about Egypt arrives on our screens. Egypt. In a fishing family, the father teaches the three sons the trade to pass it on as an overbearing fisherman who regularly beats all three of his sons. One of the three teenagers, however, after school is chosen to go to Cairo to study at the university school of Islam, the counterpart of the Italian universities of theology, where, however, unlike in Catholic countries, the future Egyptian ruling class is formed, strongly conditioned by the Islamic religion through the Imams.
#CANNES76 – 16/27 May 2022 SPECIAL #1 (DAY -35): News and rumors
L’Italia a Cannes, festival forecasts waiting for the Line Up which will be presented by the Fremaux Director after Easter (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) After the announcement of the opening film of the event on the Croisette the 2023 it could be the year of the massive return of Italian films such as the possible ones by Alice Rohrwacher, Nanni Moretti, Matteo Garrone and Marco Bellocchio, but also Saverio Costanzo. Rohrwacher's Chimera is his most international film to date, with a cast that
Straight from #CANNES75 #LEILA’sBROTHERS by Saeed ROUSTAEE
Presentato a Cannes della scorsa edizione uno spaccato della società iraniana Un anziano fuma la sigaretta mentre osserva alcuni lavoratori di una fabbrica. Suddenly the workers are ordered to stop and go to the mosque to pray, where we also find the old man praying. Outside the factory the workers clamor. After the "social" introduction to immerse us in a theocratic country like Iran, we are introduced to a familiar environment of the young Leila and her brothers (hence the title) dealing with an inheritance. Leila and her brothers are unable to have a vision
The return of #Casanova by Gabriele Salvatores
The Oscar-winning director faces an autobiographical portrait of himself (as the interviewee confessed) and speaks on the one hand about the efforts of a famous director who falls into depression from the passage of time in black and white. If we think about it, at the basis of cinema there is precisely this unavoidable parameter for human beings with i 24 frames per second that have been animating the frames of motion picture film since its inception! On the other hand, it speaks of the decadence of another great figure in the collective imagination told in colour: Casanova by borrowing and freely drawing inspiration
Stranizza d'Amuri where the Sicilian spirit sees the directorial debut of Giuseppe Fiorello
Stranizza d'Amuri, un film sulla sicilianità che vede il debutto di Giuseppe Fiorello alla regia Stranizza d’amuri di GIUSEPPE FIORELLO attore, director, screenwriter, producer, it is his first feature film as a director for the cinema in which he involved many Sicilian actors. June 1982, in a warm Sicily that thrills for the Italian national team at the World Cup, two teenagers, Gianni and Nino, they collide with their respective mopeds along a country road. From the clash a deep friendship is born, but also something more, something that is frowned upon
#BERLINALE73 – 16/26 February 2023 SPECIAL #14 (DAYS 10&11): THE PRICES
The day of the Golden and Silver Bears and the other Awards (from Berlin Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - The photos are published courtesy of BERLINALE) After a marathon of more 300 film la Berlinale con le varie Giurie ha espresso il giudizio della73ma edizione GOLDEN BEAR al Miglior Film a Sur I'Adamant di Nicolas Philibert Il miglior documentario è risultato quello presentato nella sezione ENCOUNTER, among the films of the new German cinematography (PDK) ha primeggiato un film sulla diversità Di seguito riportiamo le nostre impressioni sui due film. But here it is
#BERLINALE73 – 16/26 February 2023 SPECIAL #13 (DAYS 8&9)
Makoto Shinka's Suzume excels in the competition, together with an inclusion documentary on the banks of the Seine while the Italians Andrea Di Stefano and Stefano Savona go to the final rush (from Berlin Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - The photos are published courtesy of BERLINALE) COMPETITION Limbo di Ivan Sen Nel deserto dell’Australia c’è un paesino chiamato LIMBO che si fonda sui resti delle cave a cielo aperto di minerali preziosi adesso abbandonate. Detective Travis travels to this forgotten part of Australia to investigate an unsolved case of a
#BERLINALE73 – 16/26 February 2023 SPECIAL #11 (DAYS 6&7)
(from Berlin Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - The photos are published courtesy of BERLINALE) BERLINALE SERIES: The Good Mothers di Julian Jarrold, Elisa Amoruso WINS! Philippe Garrel and his love for the art of acting, Unmissable TALENTS: Geraldine Chaplin e John Malkovich parlano dell'umorismo e ricordano le loro interpretazioni indimenticabili COMPETITION Le grand chariot di Philippe Garrel Philippe Garrel mette in scena con i suoi figli Louis, Esther and Léna, a family of comedian puppeteers in a comedy that praises the art of storytelling. The topic of technological innovations of the times is examined, albeit subdued
#BERLINALE73 – 16/26 February 2023 SPECIAL #8 (DAYS 4&5)
(from Berlin Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - The photos are published courtesy of BERLINALE) Nel fine settimana tanti bei film Celine Song pone un ipoteca sui premi insieme a Lila Avilés che affronta i temi della Vita e della morte. The portrait of the works of the famous Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann while in the GENERATION section we applaud Antonio Bigni's imaginative Italy. After a long wait at TALENTS Ruben Ostund talks about himself. COMPETITION Disco Boy di Giacomo Abbruzzese Film su un uomo qualsiasi in una performance magnetica di Franz Rogowski. Disco Boy isn't just about Europe,