Yórgos LÁNTHIMOS is not convincing although he has hired a proven cast with a multifaceted Jesse Plemons and a magnetic Emma Stone (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 #KindOfKindness di Yorgos Lanthimos Sinossi: la Musa del regista greco in un trittico dai contorni oscuri sull’animo umano Recensione: The Greek director returns to collaborate with Efthimis Filippou and one immediately notices that he is taking a step back compared to his latest films which were so successful
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#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #11 (Daya4): The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais
Paul SCHRADER's self-referential performance is disappointing (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 OH CANADA di Paul SCHRADER Sinossi: The story of an ailing Montreal documentarian who shocks his loved ones when he confesses in an interview that he fled the United States decades earlier to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. Based on the novel Foregone by Russell Banks 2021 and financed by private investors, Oh, Canada Recensione: there is
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #10 (DAYS3&4): The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Croisette
In the opening lines Un Certain Regard reminds us that redemption is always possible, from the Fortnight a fascinating Doc, finally we discover ACID and its pearls (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) Un Certain Regard THE SHAMELESS di Konstantin BOJANOV Sinossi: The story of the forbidden love of two women who escape their lives as sex workers and embark on a dangerous journey to freedom. Review: The Shameless is a film that
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #8 (DAY3): The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais
At the Palais you can breathe the air of the longest day for Francis Ford COPPOLA, and the Festival remembers the tormented Ukraine with Sergei's documentary LOZNITSA (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 BIRD di Andrea ARNOLD Sinossi: The story of a twelve-year-old girl living in a squat in the south of England, con il padre single e il fratello Recensione: Although many critics from across the Channel and overseas have defined this film as one
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #6 (DAY2): The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais
(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) The competition kicks off with two tragic stories of young girls, while on the Croisette everyone is crazy about George Miller and his FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA Contemporaneamente si inaugura la 63ma Edizione della Settimana della Critica con un film altrettanto tragico sulla guerra in Siria COMPETITION DIAMANT BRUT (WILD DIAMOND) by Agathe RIEDINGER - Opera prima Sinossi: A nineteen-year-old aims for success
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #5 (DAY 2): The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Croisette
Empathy characterizes the openings of UCR and SdC, putting humanity first (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) Un Certain Regard Film di apertura UCR: WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS di Rúnar Rúnarsson La storia segue un giovane studente d'arte la cui vita viene sconvolta durante una lunga giornata estiva a Reykjavik. Review: When the Light Breaks è un'opera drammatica e toccante, caratterizzata da una sensibilità rara perfettamente restituita dalle interpretazioni del
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #3 (DAY1 ) – The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais
The opening film of Cannes Classic #Napoléon by Abel Gance is exciting 1927 (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) OUT OF COMPETITION il Film d’apertura: THE SECOND ACT (THE SECOND ACT) di Quentin DUPIEUX ovvero la storia di quattro personaggi che si ritrovano nel remoto ristorante del titolo Recensione: #2act seems to take the baton from the film #Coupez by #MicheHazanavicius. Actually #QuentinDupiex, is characterized by its directorial style, l’ironia dissacrante e
#IlMioPostoèqui by Cristiano Bortone and Daniela Porto – the review by Vittorio De Agrò
#IlMioPostoèqui is based on the novel of the same name by Daniela Porto, with: Ludovica Martino e Marco Leonardi Sinossi: My place is here, film directed by Cristiano Bortone and Daniela Porto, è ambientato all'indomani del Secondo conflitto mondiale in un paesino in Calabria. Racconta l'amicizia nata tra Marta e Lorenzo (Ludovica Martino and Marco Leonardi): she is a single mother, who has been promised as a wife to a man she is not in love with; his, instead, he is a gay man, known for "organize weddings" of others. Il loro incontro porterà alla nascita di un
#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #1 (DAY-28)
Few but good: there are only two Italian titles chosen at Cannes (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) This is how we can summarize the presence of Italian Cinema in this 77th edition of the Festival par excellence. In fact, there are two Italians who will represent us on the Croisette in a few weeks. We had hoped until the end that a new Italian talent would be discovered in the Quinzaine, or to the ACID section, But this did not happen.
#IMisteriDelBarEtoile by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon – The review
#IMisteriDelBarEtoile is a noir, a ballad about memory and reconciliation with one's past, senza mai prendersi sul serio fino in fondo Film d’apertura al Festival di #Locarno, and presented by the authors, recently at the Cinema Nuovo Sacher at the #RendezVous, the French Film Festival. Synopsis: #IMisteriDelBarEtoile takes place in Brussels. Il Bar Etoile, a small place located in the historic center of the city, it is run by Boris (Dominique Abel) and his wife Kayoko (This is Kaori). Boris is a fugitive former political activist who in 1986 was involved in an attack during a