Un Certain Regard points the finger at gender disparity with an Indian film. A Korean film between action and thriller is out of competition (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Maria Vittoria Battaglia with the kind collaboration of Vittorio De Agrò (RS) - the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Un Certain Regard SANTOSH di Sandhya SURI Sinossi: Debut film about a widow turned police officer in rural northern India. Review: Santosh is a film that manages to combine a compelling plot with incisive social criticism, offering an experience
Author: Maria Vittoria Battaglia
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #16 (DAY6): The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Croisette
An immigrant, the beauty of the school (learn/teach), the indigenous communities of the Amazon forest in defense of their territories are the topics addressed at the halfway point of the Festival (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Maria Vittoria Battaglia with the kind collaboration of Vittorio De Agrò (RS) - the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Un Certain Regard L'HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE di Boris LOJKINE Sinossi: The story of the African diaspora in Europe about a Guinean delivery man who has two days to make up a story for his job application interview
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #13 (DAY5): The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Croisette
Un Certain Regard to discover new talents hits its target with a film from Asia (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Maria Vittoria Battaglia with the kind collaboration of Vittorio De Agrò (RS) - the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Un Certain Regard ARMAND di Halfdan ULLMANN TØNDEL Sinossi: debut film about the story of a woman called to a school meeting for an accusation involving her six-year-old son, that gets out of control. Review: The film is set in an elementary school, where the teachers summon the parents of
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #10 (DAYS3&4): The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Croisette
In the opening lines Un Certain Regard reminds us that redemption is always possible, from the Fortnight a fascinating Doc, finally we discover ACID and its pearls (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Maria Vittoria Battaglia with the kind collaboration of Vittorio De Agrò (RS) - the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Un Certain Regard THE SHAMELESS di Konstantin BOJANOV Sinossi: The story of the forbidden love of two women who escape their lives as sex workers and embark on a dangerous journey to freedom. Review: The Shameless is a film that
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #5 (DAY 2): The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Croisette
Empathy characterizes the openings of UCR and SdC, putting humanity first (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Maria Vittoria Battaglia with the kind collaboration of Vittorio De Agrò (RS) - the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Un Certain Regard Film di apertura UCR: WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS di Rúnar Rúnarsson La storia segue un giovane studente d'arte la cui vita viene sconvolta durante una lunga giornata estiva a Reykjavik. Review: When the Light Breaks è un'opera drammatica e toccante, caratterizzata da una sensibilità rara perfettamente restituita dalle interpretazioni del
#The Seductions of Vito Zagarrio
“The problem with love is always the same. No one has ever understood what a happy ending really is, but everyone pretends to know it very well. Almeno fino alla prossima volta che si innamoreranno.” In #LeSeduzioni Stefano, editorial director at a successful publishing house, he is a bored middle-aged man with a biting irony. A wedding behind us, a much younger lover with rather immature ways, coldly and cynically uninterested in anything that concerns love. For him, everything is just a diversion to deal with existential boredom. But one day he wakes up, e
#BERLINALE 74th ed. 15/25 February 2024 SPECIAL #19 (DAY 7)
The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Zoo Palast (from Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Vittorio De Agrò of the RdC editorial team- The photos are published courtesy of the #BERLINALE) Lin's debut film is much more than the plot, dove il vero protagonista è l’intreccio dei vizi umani #Brief HistoryOfaFamily di Jianjie Lin è stato presentato a #Panorama Sinossi: The fate of a wealthy family is mysteriously intertwined with that of their son's new enigmatic friend in China's post-one-child policy. Emotions
#BERLINALE 74th ed. 15/25 February 2024 SPECIAL #16 (DAY 6)
The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Zoo Palast (from Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Vittorio De Agrò of the RdC editorial team- The photos are published courtesy of the #BERLINALE) Conflict between the present and the past, un presente mai sentito come familiare nell’opera prima dal Vietnam #CuLiNeverCries di Lân Phạm Ngọc presentato a #Panorama Sinossi: After inheriting a pygmy loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to increasingly tenuous ties to her past as her granddaughter prepares for the
#BERLINALE 74th ed. 15/25 February 2024 SPECIAL #13 (DAY 5)
The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Zoo Palast (from Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Vittorio De Agrò of the RdC editorial team- The photos are published courtesy of the #BERLINALE) Dalla sezione #Panorama lo sguardo sul Mondo in fiamme #Afterwar di Birgitte Stærmose Sinossi: Children transform into adults before our eyes. Yet they remain in limbo, haunted by memories of the war in Kosovo. Combining raw realism and stage performance, Afterwar is a meditation on the long-term repercussions of war. #Afterwar di Birgitte Stærmose |
#BERLINALE 74th ed. 15/25 February 2024 SPECIAL #9 (DAY 4)
The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Zoo Palast (from Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Vittorio De Agrò of the RdC editorial team- The photos are published courtesy of the #BERLINALE) Two good films at the Zoo Palast over the weekend: #Bethany, presented in the #Panorama section, with a documentary flavor, it is an authentic glimpse of real life and #FoxAndHareSavetheForest, presented in the #GenerationKplus section, è un film di animazione che con i suoi colori pastello fa l’occhiolino ai bambini più piccolini #Betânia di Marcelo Botta | with Diana Mattos, Tião