#BERLINALE73 – 16/26 February 2023 SPECIAL #2 (DAY 1)

The review of Marina fearful: Rebecca Miller's She came to me disappoints critics and audiences (Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful- Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale) She came to me by Rebecca Miller, the opening film of the 73rd Berlin Film Festival – within the Berlinale Special section – is the story of two families who take turns on the big screen. Steven (played by Peter Dinklage) he is a composer in full creative crisis, married to psychologist Patricia (Anne Hathaway) – an extremely charming woman,

Il Great Diagonal Acting Award 2023 will go to Margarethe Tiesel

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As part of the inauguration of the festival, the 21 March, the Diagonale'23 will award the Großer Diagonale Schauspielpreis for the sixteenth time for services rendered to Austrian film culture. La Diagonale is pleased to announce that this year's award goes to the legendary actress Margarethe Tiesel. The theater actress, cinema and television will personally receive the award – a work of art by Xenia Hausner - in Graz. "She gives herself. Not just her desire for intimacy, like the lonely Viennese sex tourist Teresa in Paradise: Love di Ulrich Seidl. It has become like this, as he deserved, a

The In Referenz section of the Diagonale'23 was presented

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With the In Referenz section, the Diagonal intertwines, conveys and expands the focal points of its current program. In cooperation with Filmarchiv Austria, the Austrian Film Festival dedicates in 2023 a cinematic homage in four sections to the Graz actress Marisa Mell, which will be complemented by an extensive exhibition at the Graz Museum. Marisa Mell, the "Austrian Sophia Loren", was one of the most famous women in European cinema of the 60s and 70s – a citizen of Graz and the world, a revelation! The In Referenz program also includes studies

The animal in the jungle aprirà la Diagonale'23

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La Diagonale is pleased to announce that the Austrian Film Festival will open on Tuesday 21 March with the feature film Das Tier im Dschungel (The beast in the jungle, AT/BE/FR 2023, 103 min.) by Patric Chiha. The feature film will be joined this year by the experimental short film NYC RGB by Viktoria Schmid (US/AT 2023, 7 me), whose world premiere will kick off the gala evening. After the world premiere at the Berlinale, il film The Animal in the Jungle, co-produced by Ebba Sinzinger and Vincent Lucassen (WILDart FILM), it will be projected onto what it is, al

In cinemas directly from #CANNE75 Decision to leave by Park Chan-wook

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Murders and impossible loves - Decision to leave - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Another great name present, in competition, at this 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is the famous Korean director Park Chan-wook. On this occasion, indeed, the filmmaker gave us Decision to leave, a refined yellow with a passionate love story in the background, that does not disdain even a welcome, veiled irony. The corpse of a man - probably fallen during a mountain climb - immediately catches the eye

The retrospectives of the Diagonale'23

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The Diagonale is pleased to announce two special programs that will be screened at the Austrian Film Festival in March. The first historical special of Diagonale'23 is entitled FINALE and includes five programs selected together with the Filmarchiv Austria and the Austrian Film Museum and with the collaboration of the ORF archive. In the second historical special Aktion! Action!, SYNEMA - Society for Film and Media e la Diagonale si dedicated al regista, critic and author Bernhard Frankfurter (1946-1999). One cannot deny the present a certain tendency towards the ending, to the climax finale. But what about the

In cinemas directly from #CANNES75: The Envol by Pietro Marcello

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Family ties and a future to be discovered - L'Envol - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) The Italian filmmaker Pietro Marcello is a real source of pride as regards contemporary Italian cinema. After the successes of Lost and Beautiful (2015) and Martin Eden (2019) here he arrives at the Croisette with his latest effort: Flight, opening film of the Directors’ Fortnight of the 75° Festival di Cannes. The story staged, therefore, is that of the young Juliette (personified by Juliette Jouan),

In theaters directly from #CANNES75 EO by Jerzy Skolimowski

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The exploitation of animals is a tribute to the great Robert Bresson - EO - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Random balthazar, direct in 1966 from the great Robert Bresson is one of the undisputed masterpieces of the history of cinema, without fear of any exaggeration. Several expectations, therefore, aroused the presence in competition at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival of EO, latest effort by filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, that - always a great admirer of Bresson's film - wanted, just, realize

The Zur Person section of the Diagonale is dedicated to the director Goran Rebić 2023

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The Zur Person section reflects on Austrian cinema and film culture through biographies of worthy Austrian filmmakers. In 2023, the format of the program is dedicated to the director and screenwriter Goran Rebić, born in 1968, who was also an actor for a time. Il programma About the person: Goran Rebić will be screened from 22 al 26 March 2023 within the framework of the Graz Diagonal and will be accompanied by in-depth discussions (diagonal in dialogue), dal workshop "I am history - films between times" and from a listening session. The works of

In theaters directly from #Cannes75 Corsage by Marie Kreutzer

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An unexpected Elisabeth of Austria - Corsage - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) An unusual, controversial portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (by all called affectionately Sissi) it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2022 - within the Un Certain Regard section. The feature film in question is Corsage, latest effort by Austrian director Marie Kreutzer, starring the famous (She 's VERY GOOD) Vicky Krieps. Elisabeth of Austria is, on this particular occasion, a fragile woman, Human, obsessed with grooming and passing

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