(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Vittorio De Agrò (RS) – The photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) An unexpected flop from Caleb Landry Jones, protagonista di DOGMAN Sinossi: The extraordinary story of a child, marked by life, who will find salvation through the love of his dogs. “Wherever there is an unhappy person, Dio invia un cane.” Alphonse de Lamartine Recensione: This dramatic film, which begins on a rainy evening at a New Jersey police checkpoint, is introduced with this phrase, we would call it an animal rights activist.
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#VENICE80 – 30/8 -9/9/2023 SPECIAL #1: (DAY 1) Diary from the Lido
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Vittorio De Agrò (RS) – The photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Edoardo De Angelis apre la Mostra con la storia della marineria italiana durante la seconda Guerra Mondiale I film italiani in concorso a #VENEZIA80 raggiungono il ragguardevole numero di ben otto pellicole la maggior parte nel concorso principale ed in particolare : COMMANDER - FILM DI APERTURA di EDOARDO DE ANGELIS ENEA di PIETRO CASTELLITTO FINALMENTE L’ALBA di SAVERIO COSTANZO LUBO di GIORGIO DIRITTI IO CAPITANO di MATTEO GARRONE ADAGIO di
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #20: (DAY 11) The Awards with the Golden Lion to Laura Forses
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) The Exhibition assigns a questionable "political" Golden Lion to the documentary by the American Laura Poitras, giving a consolation prize to the mighty KHERS NIST (NO BEARS) in Jafar Panahi . Once again the interlocking games prevailed over the natural epilogue of the Exhibition. At the end the closing film FC by Francesco Carrozzini The Hanging Sun (REVIEW) The VENICE Jury 79, chaired by
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #19: THE HANGING SUN by FRANCESCO CARROZZINI
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Si chiude con un film flop la Mostra di Venezia La Mostra è stata ufficialmente chiusa con la proiezione del film FUORI CONCORSO FICTION THE HANGING SUN – FILM DI CHIUSURA di FRANCESCO CARROZZINI con Alessandro Borghi, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sam Spruell, Frederick Schmidt, Raphael Vicas, Peter Mullan, Charles Dance / Italy, UK / 93’ SINOSSI John è in fuga dopo aver tradito suo padre,
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #18: (DAY 10) THE LISTENER di Steve Buscemi
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) “The Listener” is a film to see and above all to listen to until the end to appreciate its message and deepest meaning: Nessuno si salva da solo GdA SELEZIONE UFFICIALE - FUORI CONCORSO THE LISTENER di Steve Buscemi – film di chiusura Stati Uniti, 2022, 96’, world premiere - Beth volunteers for a "helpline", in that small army of people who are
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #17: (DAY 10)
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) La Mostra da il meglio di se con Susanna Nicchiarelli e Jafar Panahi VENEZIA 79 Concorso CHIARA di SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI con Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106’ SINOSSI Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old, and one night he runs away from his father's house to join his friend Francesco. From that moment on, his life changed forever. You don't
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #16: (DAY 9) The pills from Maria Vittoria Battaglia's WEB
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) OUT OF COMPETITION - NON FICTION THE MATCHMAKER di BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI Italia / 90’ SINOSSI Tooba Gondal è una delle più famigerate jihadiste britanniche. Only twenty years old, left London to join the Islamic State and became known worldwide as “The ISIS Matchmaker”, accused of recruiting a dozen Western women to marry ISIS fighters. Between 2014 and the
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #15: (DAY 9)
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Fuori Concorso PAOLO VIRZI’ E I CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI VENEZIA 79 Concorso BLONDE di ANDREW DOMINIK con Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher / USA / 165’ SINOSSI Tratto dal romanzo di successo di Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde daringly traces the life of one of Hollywood's timeless icons, Marilyn Monroe. From her precarious childhood as Norma Jeane, up to
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #14: (DAY 8) Vittorio De Agro's reviews
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) ALICE DIOP INCANTA IL LIDO VENEZIA 79 Concorso SAINT OMER di ALICE DIOP con Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurelia Petit / France / 122’ Sinossi: Court of Saint-Omer. The young writer Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a woman accused of killing her fifteen-month-old daughter, abandoned at high tide on a beach in northern France. But while the process
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #13: (DAY 8) The pills from Maria Vittoria Battaglia's WEB
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) La Mostra è accanto all’Ucraina con un doc che testimonia le atrocità della guerra ORIZZONTI LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG di ANTONIO LUKICH con Amil Nasirov, Ramil Nasirov, Lyudmyla Sachenko / Ukraine / 105’ SINOSSI Ci sono tanti posti bellissimi dove morire. Luxembourg is not one of them. Beautiful or not, anyway, in Luxembourg it is very expensive to die. When twins learn that their father, who have not seen since