(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) From the GRAND PUBLIC section: VOLARE by Margherita Buy, Italy, 2023, 100’ | First work | In his portrait, partly autobiographical, Margherita Buy talks about herself following the traits of her character par excellence: a hypochondriac, obsessed, a little self-centered and absolutely hilarious. Her name is Anna Bettini e, among other qualities, she never managed to get on a plane. “Flying isn't natural for
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#ROMAFF18 –18-28/10/2023 SPECIAL #14: (DAY 7) – The Focus on ALICE by Stefano Sica
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - Photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma) Dal CONCORSO ALICE NELLA CITTÀ storie di famiglie spezzate The Other Son di Juan Sebastiàn Quebrada - Colombia, France, Argentina, 2023, 89’ SINOSSI Federico e suo fratello Simon vivono a pieno la loro adolescenza, until the day Simon dies when he falls from the balcony during a party. As his family falls apart before his eyes, Federico tries to live a normal life during
#ROMAFF18 –18-28/10/2023 SPECIAL #12: (DAY 6) – The Focus on ALICE by Stefano Sica
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - Photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma) Un pubblico giovane ed entusiasta ha accolto all'Auditorium sold out l’ultima fatica del Maestro Hayao Miyazaki PROIEZIONI SPECIALI |In co-production with the Rome Film Festival| The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki - Japan, 2023, 124’ SINOSSI Spinto dal desiderio di rivedere sua madre, It will be done, a boy of 12 years, ventures into a realm inhabited by the living and the dead. A fantastic place to
#ROMAFF18 –18-28/10/2023 SPECIAL #10: (DAY 4) – The Focus on ALICE by Stefano Sica
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - Photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma) With a light and pleasant film, at the same time the director manages to explain with an unpublished story, le tensioni che attraversa la società PANORAMA ITALIA Concorso La Guerra del Tiburtino III di Luna Gualano - Italy, 2023, 95’ SINOSSI Nel quartiere "Tiburtino III", on the outskirts of Rome, A small asteroid falls from the sky. In the next days, almost all the inhabitants of the neighborhood begin to behave in
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #9: (DAY 4) PALAZZINA LAF by Michele Riondino – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) Michele Riondino ritorna alle sue origini con un film di denuncia sociale Esordio alla regia per l’attore Michele Riondino che, presenting Palazzina LAF at the Rome Film Festival, he made an important statement: “Da noi la classe operaia non va in paradiso.” Taranto, late 90s. Caterino Lamanna (Michele Riondino, extraordinary, it reminds us of Favino's best interpretations) he works as a worker at ILVA and is the
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #8: (DAY 3)
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) In competition, two unmissable films from distant Peru and the Nordic countries place a mortgage on the FESTA, together with the film about the Holocaust THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Best of 2023) presentato a Cannes CONCORSO PROGRESSIVE CINEMA LA ERECCION DE TORIBIO BARDELLI di Adrián Saba, Peru, Brazil, 2023, 82’ SINOSSI: Between the Casta Diva played by Maria Callas and the Elvis songs loved by a fanatic bartender, between
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #7: (DAY 3) CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG by Alexis Bloom – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) From the BEST OF section 2023: ANITA PALLENBERG “A witch, a murderer", that's how it was defined, il DOC fa chiarezza sulla protagonista CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG di Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill, United States, 2023, 112’ | Doc | Scarlett Johansson gives voice to intimate words, never published, of the model's autobiography, actress, muse Anita Pallenberg, while between interviews and archive images we discover the smiles, i
#ROMAFF18 – 18-28/10/2023 SPECIAL #6: (DAY 3) – The Focus on ALICE by Stefano Sica
ALICE NELLA CITTÀ CONCORSO Rivière di Hugues Hariche - Switzerland, France, 2023, 104’ SINOSSI La diciassettenne Manon lascia le montagne svizzere per andare alla ricerca del padre scomparso. As he forms new bonds and meets his first love, she is determined to follow the path she has set for herself: become a professional ice hockey player. RECENSIONE Direttamente dal Festival di Locarno, arrives at the Rome Film Festival Rivière: a film that combines the theme of ice sports with the growing up difficulties of teenagers. The protagonist of this story is Manon (Flavie Delangle), a girl
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #5: (DAY 3) I TOLD YOU SO by Ginevra Elkan – VALENTINA's review
At the second directorial test Ginevra Elkan presents us with illustrations depicting the Christmas angels that open this comic story, dramatic, blasphemous, per tanti versi ma anche molto sincero tutto al femminile Vediamo un atto sessuale, take place under the sacred icons, scattered throughout Gianna's apartment (an impeccable Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), religious fanatic. This carnal encounter is followed by a reckless frenzy: Gianna's daughter suffers from an eating disorder, il binge eating disorder, which leads her to ingest food straight from the fridge. The mother-daughter relationship that directs her, Geneva Elkan, puts
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #4: (DAY 2) – the portrait of Monica Vitti
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) Nessuno ne parla ma il ritratto di Monica Vitti nel film di Roberta Torre ci ha rapito CONCORSO PROGRESSIVE CINEMA FREMONT di Babak Jalali, United States, 2023, 88’ SINOSSI Donya lavora per una fabbrica cinese di biscotti della fortuna a San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the US Army in Afghanistan, he struggles to find his life again. In a moment of sudden revelation, decides to send a special message in