Avatar is Cameron's latest masterpiece thanks also to the powerful means of Disney which opens the new season of return to the cinema after two years of pandemic with all the "weapons" that Disney has. We must acknowledge this with gratitude because it is a big sigh of relief for the cinemas that have recently been deserted by spectators. In Italy alone there are over a thousand copies distributed, many in 3D. The themes covered in the highly anticipated new film after its debut in 2009 always by the director are commendable because pregnant
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In theaters directly from #Cannes75 Corsage by Marie Kreutzer
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
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
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 #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