Synopsis: Joker: Folie à deux vede Arthur Fleck internato ad Arkham, awaiting trial for his crimes as the Joker. Struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but he also discovers the music he has always had inside him. Commento del regista Quando lavoravamo a Joker nel 2018 we never imagined it would strike such a deep chord with audiences around the world. With Joaquin we had talked about a sequel, and seriously, until we witnessed the reactions that the story
Author: Vittorio De Agrò (RS)
#Autumn Readings by Vittorio De Agrò – n. 2
#IlGiardinierediWimbledon in Jane Crilly (published on 2 July 2024 from Feltrinelli, pages 224. Price 16,15 euro) Synopsis: For fifty years, Henry Evans was the world's most famous lawn gardener, national heritage of Great Britain: Wimbledon. For fifty years, he personally took care of the camp day and night, in every season, wetting it and cutting it to perfection. When he decides to retire, the young journalist Cara Gibson is sent to interview him. They meet in Henry's red brick house, not far from the legendary All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in front of
#Autumn Readings by Vittorio De Agrò – n. 1
#DifesaAzona is a novel written by Petros Markaris (republished on 16 January 2024 from “The Ship of Theseus”, once 474. First edition Bompiani in May 2002) Synopsis: Commissioner Kostas Charitos is not used to holidays and rest, especially if to save money he is forced to spend them at his sister-in-law's house on the island of Patmos. Making his mood worse, there is also the earthquake and the consequent discovery of a mysterious corpse unearthed by a landslide caused by the earthquake. On the bright side, he now has a good excuse to get back into the
#Augustian Readings by Vittorio De Agrò: Snow at the bottom of the sea by Matteo Bussola
“The snow at the bottom of the sea” is a novel by Matteo Bussola and published by Einaudi Editore 25 June 2024, pp. 192, € 17,00. Synopsis: A father and a son, inside a room. Facing each other, as they ever were. Each a mirror of the other. The two of them, together, in a child neuropsychiatry department. There are other parents, in that department, other children. Adolescents who refuse food or who harm themselves, who experience the exhausting struggle of growing up, within families unable to give a name to their torment.
#The Memory of the Assassin by Michael Keaton
An enjoyable thriller, avvincente nel tenere insieme la sfera intima con quella violenta e sanguinaria Sinossi: The Assassin's Memory, the film directed by Michael Keaton, follows the story of John Knox (Michael Keaton), a professional hitman who has to abandon his job due to degenerative dementia. The illness, rapidly evolving, forces him to come to terms with the life he has led up to that point and to find an alternative way to survive. But when one night his son Miles shows up at his door (James Marsden), seriously
#LaTreccia by Laetitia Colombiani
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Laetitia Colombani, published in Italy by Casa Editrice Nord, narrative thread of the three episodes in which the protagonists are three different and above all distant women also on a geographical level: India, Italy, Canada Sinossi: The Braid, the film directed by Laetitia Colombani, follows the story of three women living on three continents, different in every way but united by a common destiny: the struggle for survival. Giulia (Fotini Peluso) she is an Italian girl, his family produces wigs by reusing cut or spontaneously fallen hair. When his
#Insideout2 on Kelsey Mann, the new Disney movie & Pixar
The perfect life does not exist, not even in our minds and we should say especially for the latter, guardian of our emotions, ricordi ed esperienze Sinossi: #Disney and Pixar's InsideOut2 returns to the mind of teenage Riley, just born, just as the headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something completely unexpected: new emotions! Gioia, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who have been running a successful operation for a long time, they're not sure how to feel when anxiety arises. And she's not alone . . . Review: We all want to have a free life
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #28 (DAY 11): The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais
In the final rush, the Festival kicks into high gear thanks to the Iranian film that claims the Palme d'Or (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) COMPETITION THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG di Mohammad Rasoulof (ed: recently went into voluntary exile from Iran) Synopsis: The story concerns an investigating judge of the revolutionary court of Tehran struggling with mistrust and paranoia that lead him to suspect his own wife and her
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #24 (DAY 9): The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais
On the third to last day, the Critics' Week closed with a film about gender equality which was the leitmotif of the Cannes festival 2024 In the Competition the Brazilian film exaggerates its tone (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) COMPETITION MOTEL DESTINO di Karim AÏNOUZ Sinossi: An erotic thriller presented as an intimate look at the rebellion and sensuality of Brazilian youth, set in a love hotel in Ceara,
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #21 (DAYS 7&8): The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais
Towards the conclusion, Cronenberg's Visionary Cinema and ABBASI's Cinema of the Real collide, but the debate inevitably shifts to the unhealed wounds of Bernardo Bertolucci and his Last Tango in Paris (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) COMPETITION THE APPRENTICE di Ali ABBASI Sinossi: Iranian-Danish director Abbasi's first English-language feature film shows Donald Trump as a young real estate executive in