An unexpected Elisabeth of Austria - Corsage - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) An unusual, controversial portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (by all called affectionately Sissi) it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2022 - within the Un Certain Regard section. The feature film in question is Corsage, latest effort by Austrian director Marie Kreutzer, starring the famous (She 's VERY GOOD) Vicky Krieps. Elisabeth of Austria is, on this particular occasion, a fragile woman, Human, obsessed with grooming and passing
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In cinemas directly from #CANNES75 Les Amamdiers by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Dreams and dramas of young actors in the early 1980s - Les Amandiers - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Second feature film by actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as director, Les Amandiers - world premiere, in competition, at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival - it turned out to be a pleasant surprise within the famous film event. Extremely intimate and personal, the film stages Stella's story (an extraordinary Nadia Tereszkiewicz), a twenty year old girl, that, in the early eighties, together
The Diagonal 2023 from 21 al 26 March to Graz
The Austrian film festival will take place in Graz from 21 al 26 March 2023 and will be the last of the current duo of artistic directors Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber. Within the Diagonal 2023, international juries award Austria's most important film prizes. The film competition is the heart of the programme. With a mix of established and new names, it offers the opportunity to make unexpected discoveries and to get an idea of the diversity and vitality of the national film scene. Alongside the biography of worthy domestic directors, the Zur Person series reflects on cinema and
Claudia Slanar and Dominik Kamalzadeh will be the new artistic directors of the Diagonale from June 2023
La Diagonale is pleased to announce the new artistic direction of the Austrian Film Festival. By unanimous decision of the General Assembly, Claudia Slanar and Dominik Kamalzadeh will succeed the duo Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber as commercial and artistic directors from June 2023 and will be responsible for the festivals from 2024 al 2027. "Claudia Slanar and Dominik Kamalzadeh intend the Diagonale 'as a place of artistic and political activity'. They convinced the General Assembly both in the submitted project and in the hearing with their intelligent and well thought-out vision for the film festival
In cinemas directly from #CANNES75 : Triangle of Sadness di Ruben Östlund
Money and power in capitalist society - Triangle of Sadness - Marina's review ( Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) If in the 2014 an enormous wave was breaking all precarious pre-established balances (in the feature film Force Majeure), here, eight years later, it is a storm in the open sea - with consequent shipwreck - to overturn roles and situations. It was written by Ruben Östlund. - formerly the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 2017 per The Square - he enjoyed dissecting every aspect and every bizarre
#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