Ridley Scott with #Napoleon paints the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, following historical events with a temporal linearity, interrotta solamente dalle passioni dell’imperatore Per quanto la narrazione possa apparire limpida, we find different interpretations, layered and innovative. By self-citing and transforming the quote in the name of future generations, Ridley Scott compares the figure of the emperor with two little girls playing with wooden swords, while Napoleon writes love letters to his late ex-wife, Josephine. How can you not think of the director's first film, The duelists? Also set in Napoleonic France; the end of
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Mimì – The prince of darkness at #33NOIRFF
Brando De Sica talks about "his" Naples, la sua città di “vampiri” Mimì – Il principe delle tenebre,which will be presented to 33 BLACK FF, a preview of Brando De Sica's first work transports the viewer into a magical realism that also feeds on expressionist references but where the horror impulse flows into exaggerated bloody violence. Mimì is a Neapolitan pizza chef with an angelic face and deformed feet. His physical defect makes him a constant target of the Camorra, who usually frequent the pizzeria where he works at night, after
#Banksy and the girl from the #Bataclan, doc by Edoardo Anselmi on #RAI5
Ci si domanda anche oggi se #Banksy è un convinto assertore delle ingiustizie del sistema o piuttosto le cavalca sfruttando un onda emotiva Il documentario Banksy e la ragazza del Bataclan, directed by Edoardo Anselmi, initially embraces an explanatory Netflix style to illustrate the context of the street art, and then takes on thriller tones following the white van that kidnapped Banksy's "The Sad Girl".. Heist artists have always enjoyed a certain allure on screen (David Niven ne The Pink Panther, Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, Arsenio
#Small, the life I would like... for you: The universe of single mothers – Stefano Sica's review
Small, la vita che vorrei… per te Opera prima di Julie Lerat-Gersant affronta la questione dell’aborto Presentata al Rendez-Vous del Cinema Francese a Roma e al Giffoni Film Festival, the film already boasts important awards such as the Boccalino d'oro award and the special mention Cinema & Youth at the Locarno Film Festival. SYNOPSIS: Camille (Pili Groyne), 16 years, she unexpectedly finds herself expecting a child and is sent by the juvenile judge to a reception center for young pregnant women. Separated from her mother, loving but toxic, becomes friends with Alison (Lucie Charles-Alfred), a young one
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #20: (DAY 9) : FELA, MY LIVING GOD by Daniele Vicari – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) From the FREE STYLE ARTS section: FELA, MY LIVING GOD by Daniele Vicari, Italy, 2023, 90’ | Doc | an eye attentive to the contemporary, creating interesting historical returns that trigger reflections, a ritmo dell’afrobeat Un bel ritmo che sposa bene il contenuto di questo documentario. Starting from the passion for Fela Kuti's music, Nigerian singer and activist, Vicari takes us to the 80s, following
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #19: (DAY 9) COTTONTAIL by Patrick Dickinson – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) From the GRAND PUBLIC section the film COTTONTAIL by Patrick Dickinson, UK, Japan, 2023, 94’ | First work | which tells of mourning, tra paesaggi inglesi e mercati giapponesi Con tenerezza e delicatezza, director Patrick Dickinson talks about mourning, between English landscapes and Japanese markets. After the death of his wife Akiko, Kenzaburo embarks on a journey to spread his ashes in England, in
#ROMAFF18 –18-28/10/2023 SPECIAL #10: (DAY 4) – The Focus on ALICE by Stefano Sica
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - Photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma) With a light and pleasant film, at the same time the director manages to explain with an unpublished story, le tensioni che attraversa la società PANORAMA ITALIA Concorso La Guerra del Tiburtino III di Luna Gualano - Italy, 2023, 95’ SINOSSI Nel quartiere "Tiburtino III", on the outskirts of Rome, A small asteroid falls from the sky. In the next days, almost all the inhabitants of the neighborhood begin to behave in
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #9: (DAY 4) PALAZZINA LAF by Michele Riondino – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) Michele Riondino ritorna alle sue origini con un film di denuncia sociale Esordio alla regia per l’attore Michele Riondino che, presenting Palazzina LAF at the Rome Film Festival, he made an important statement: “Da noi la classe operaia non va in paradiso.” Taranto, late 90s. Caterino Lamanna (Michele Riondino, extraordinary, it reminds us of Favino's best interpretations) he works as a worker at ILVA and is the
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #7: (DAY 3) CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG by Alexis Bloom – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) From the BEST OF section 2023: ANITA PALLENBERG “A witch, a murderer", that's how it was defined, il DOC fa chiarezza sulla protagonista CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG di Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill, United States, 2023, 112’ | Doc | Scarlett Johansson gives voice to intimate words, never published, of the model's autobiography, actress, muse Anita Pallenberg, while between interviews and archive images we discover the smiles, i
#ROMAFF18 – 18-28/10/2023 SPECIAL #6: (DAY 3) – The Focus on ALICE by Stefano Sica
ALICE NELLA CITTÀ CONCORSO Rivière di Hugues Hariche - Switzerland, France, 2023, 104’ SINOSSI La diciassettenne Manon lascia le montagne svizzere per andare alla ricerca del padre scomparso. As he forms new bonds and meets his first love, she is determined to follow the path she has set for herself: become a professional ice hockey player. RECENSIONE Direttamente dal Festival di Locarno, arrives at the Rome Film Festival Rivière: a film that combines the theme of ice sports with the growing up difficulties of teenagers. The protagonist of this story is Manon (Flavie Delangle), a girl