Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Wife of a Spy deserves an Award - Marina's review (from Venice Marina Pavido - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) The story staged, therefore, is that of the young Satoko, wife of the merchant Yusaku, who, after a trip to Manchuria, makes the acquaintance of a mysterious woman, later barbarously - and mysteriously - killed. Everything would suggest a crime of passion, were it not for the fact that Yusako reveals to his wife that he has come to know some
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SPECIAL # VENICE77 #8 – 2/12 SEPTEMBER 2020: (DAY 8) The Macaluso Sisters by Emma Dante
Emma Dante's Le Sorelle Macaluso is an unfinished work - Marina's review (from Venice Marina Pavido - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Le Sorelle Macaluso is the second feature film by the famous theater director Emma Dante, taken from one of his play of the same name and presented at # VE77 CONCORSO. Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live on the top floor of a building on the outskirts of Palermo. Without parents, the girls manage to get by thanks to a pigeon farm inside the attic of their building.
SPECIAL # VENICE77 #7 – 2/12 SEPTEMBER 2020: (DAYS 6&7)
(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Gianfranco Rosi displaces the audience with NOTTURNO, Amos GITAI convince con un film al femminile Al giro di boa in #VE77 CONCORSO un film che dimostra come si può restare giovanili alla veneranda età del regista russo di DOROGIE TOVARISCHI! (DEAR COMRADES!) by ANDREI KONCHALOVSKY We are in the USSR in the distant past 1962. The protagonist, a member of the Communist Party Lyudmila who would also sacrifice her own daughter for the good of the "Fatherland".
SPECIAL # VENICE77 #6 – 2/12 SEPTEMBER 2020: (DAYS 4&5)
(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Tanta attesa ben riposta sulle opere di SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI e KORNÉL MUNDRUCZÓ mentre il pubblico si divide su ASSANDIRA di SALVATORE MEREU Nel fine settimana a #VE77 CONCORSO due dei tanti attesi film. Il primo è PIECES OF A WOMAN di KORNÉL MUNDRUCZÓ/ Canada, Hungary . The story with a foregone conclusion of a birth that the puerpera wants to do at home at all costs, senza ascoltare i consigli
SPECIAL # VENICE77 #5 – 2/12 SEPTEMBER 2020: (DAYS 2&3)
(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) QUO VADIS, AIDA? e PADRENOSTRO due ricostruzioni pseudo storiche di due tragedie una collettiva ed una personale che dividono la critica. #VE77 CONCORSO inizia con un film francese AMANTS (LOVERS) di NICOLE GARCIA/ Francia / L’incipit è chiaro: i due protagonisti si amano follemente. Ma sarà poi vero? Che Lisa e Simon siano innamorati non c’è dubbio, ma gli accadimenti della vita li separano. Infatti Simon si trova in
SPECIAL # VENICE77 #4 – 2/12 SEPTEMBER 2020: (DAY 1)
(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Daniele Lucchetti delude il grande pubblico, la sezione ORIZZONTI ci prepara ad un grande CINEMA Nella SERATA INAUGURALE DELLA 77. MOSTRA i direttori artistici dei principali festival cinematografici europei erano presenti alla serata inaugurale della 77. Venice International Film Festival, in rappresentanza della comunità dei festival cinematografici dell’Europa e del mondo in questo momento di pandemia. I direttori – Alberto Barbera (Venice), ThierryFremaux (Cannes film festival), Lili Hinstin
SPECIAL # VENICE77 #3 – 2/12SETTEMBRE 2020: (DAY -1) Pre-opening
(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Here we are, in less than 48 hours the Venice Film Festival opens its doors at the time of COVID. There are many innovations especially the organizational ones with a reduced number of films to increase the projections of each work and respect the distancing. But let's see in detail: Anna Foglietta condurrà le serate di apertura e chiusura Anna Foglietta aprirà la 77. Venice on the evening of Wednesday, 2 September
SPECIAL # VENICE77 #2 – 2/12SETTEMBRE 2020: (DAY -3) The numbers
(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) This year's selection is affected by the pandemic but despite the difficulties the feature films in the Official Selection are 62 divided as follows: 18 in the Venice section 77 (Competition) 22 in the Out of Competition section (of which 11 documentaries) 19 in the Horizons section 2 in the Biennale College – Cinema section 1 nella sezione Fuori Concorso – Proiezioni Speciali I cortometraggi sono 17 divided as follows: 12 in the Horizons section 2 in the Orizzonti – Fuori section
SPECIAL # VENICE77 #1 – 2/12SETTEMBRE 2020: (DAY -10) The parallel sections SIC and GdA
(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Tra due settimane aprirà l’edizione 2020 diretta da Alberto Barbera in un clima generale di attese per il suo svolgimento ai tempi del COVID-19. Vogliamo fare il punto sulle due sezioni parallele. 17ma Giornate degli AUTORI Come la ha definita la direttrice artistica Gaia Furrer “È una grande avventura di viaggio quella proposta quest’anno dalla selezione delle Giornate degli Autori. Un viaggio che parte dalla Cina rurale degli anni Novanta
Film Critics from SNCCI: "EMA" by Pablo Larraín
"EMA" by Pablo Larraín, presented at the 76th Venice International Film Festival and distributed by Movies Inspired (Exit 2 September), was designated Film of the Critics by the National Union of Italian Film Critics SNCCI with the following motivation: Temporarily abandoning the re-reading of the history of his country to look at the present, Larraín tears apart the concept of family, between dancing bodies, music and night raids. Magnetic charm, anti-social nature, woman and mother according to their own rules, Ema sets fire to, but, creates and destroys. Its slender and powerful figure represents a