#CANNES76 – 16/27 May 2023 SPECIAL #1 (DAY -10)

Tutte le novità del Festival di Cannes, in assoluto il Festival cinematografico per eccellenza (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Dedichiamo questo articolo di lancio innanzitutto al manifesto scelto per questa edizione che vede il Mondo uscire dalla Pandemia, ma con purtroppo una guerra in atto nel cuore dell’Europa. Il Manifesto del 77mo Festival di Cannes è dedicato a Catherine Deneuve Costa Azzurra, 1 June 1968. L'attrice Catherine Deneuve è sulla spiaggia di Pampelonne, vicino a Saint-Tropez, per le riprese di

Directly from the #BERLINALE72 L'Innamorato, the Arab and the Promenade

Original title (#Nobody's Hero) Presented as the opening film of the PANORAMA section, the French director Alain Guiraudie in world premiere with Jean-Charles Clichet, Noemie Lvovsky, Ilies Kadri, Renaud Rutten, Doria Tillier A Clermont-Ferrand, in central France, Mederic, a man in his thirties, he is obsessed with Isadora, have sex with an older person. But their first approach is interrupted, first by news of a nearby terror attack, then by Isadora's jealous husband. The character of Selim appears in the staging, young Arab wanderer, seeking refuge in the stairwell of the

From #Berlinale73 #SUZUME by Makoto Shinkai

L'altro mondo coesiste perfettamente con un'evocazione dettagliata della vita quotidiana giapponese Il nuovo film d’animazione di Makoto Shinkai sulle avventure della giovane Suzume insieme all’amico del cuore Souta che viene trasformato in una sediolina a cui manca la quarta gamba e che nasconde un segreto. In a small and quiet town on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, 17-year-old Suzume has been living with her aunt since she lost her mother as a child. One day, while going to school, meets a mysterious young man named Souta who is looking for a door. It

From #CANNES75 GOD’S CREATURES by SAELA DAVIS & HANNA ROSE HOLMER

Emily Watson si esibisce in una performance imponente in questo dramma tradizionale irlandese madre-figlio La quiete di un paesino di mare delle isole irlandesi dove l’attività di sostentamento risiede nella pesca e nella lavorazione del pescato viene improvvisamente turbata dalla morte di un giovane pescatore. While in Mary's family they pray as much as befits this Irish land, the unexpected death is followed by the return of his son Brian who has been an immigrant to Australia for many years. Reunited mother and son decide to restore the oyster farm abandoned by their father and grandfather. Not everyone is

#Amusia Opera Prima by Marescotti Ruspoli

The debut film was presented at the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari as part of the Bif&st in concorso nella sezione Panorama Internazionale E’ un film che ricorda tanto lo stile di Marco Ferreri con paesaggio stilizzato nelle forme geometriche più minimalizzate dove le scritte al neon indicano allo spettatore il percorso del regista. The incipit shows us a music composer who is interrupted by the crying of his newborn daughter. The battle between musical notes and silence begins like this. On the other hand, the disturbing script takes us to another world: a dating motel the

#CONSPIRACY in Cairo aka #BOYFROMHEAVEN by Tarik SALEH

Presented at the Cannes Film Festival, a biting film about Egypt arrives on our screens. Egypt. In a fishing family, the father teaches the three sons the trade to pass it on as an overbearing fisherman who regularly beats all three of his sons. One of the three teenagers, however, after school is chosen to go to Cairo to study at the university school of Islam, the counterpart of the Italian universities of theology, where, however, unlike in Catholic countries, the future Egyptian ruling class is formed, strongly conditioned by the Islamic religion through the Imams.

#CANNES76 – 16/27 May 2022 SPECIAL #1 (DAY -35): News and rumors

L’Italia a Cannes, festival forecasts waiting for the Line Up which will be presented by the Fremaux Director after Easter (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Marina Pavido - Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) After the announcement of the opening film of the event on the Croisette the 2023 it could be the year of the massive return of Italian films such as the possible ones by Alice Rohrwacher, Nanni Moretti, Matteo Garrone and Marco Bellocchio, but also Saverio Costanzo. Rohrwacher's Chimera is his most international film to date, with a cast that

Straight from #CANNES75 #LEILA’sBROTHERS by Saeed ROUSTAEE

Presentato a Cannes della scorsa edizione uno spaccato della società iraniana Un anziano fuma la sigaretta mentre osserva alcuni lavoratori di una fabbrica. Suddenly the workers are ordered to stop and go to the mosque to pray, where we also find the old man praying. Outside the factory the workers clamor. After the "social" introduction to immerse us in a theocratic country like Iran, we are introduced to a familiar environment of the young Leila and her brothers (hence the title) dealing with an inheritance. Leila and her brothers are unable to have a vision

The return of #Casanova by Gabriele Salvatores

The Oscar-winning director faces an autobiographical portrait of himself (as the interviewee confessed) and speaks on the one hand about the efforts of a famous director who falls into depression from the passage of time in black and white. If we think about it, at the basis of cinema there is precisely this unavoidable parameter for human beings with i 24 frames per second that have been animating the frames of motion picture film since its inception! On the other hand, it speaks of the decadence of another great figure in the collective imagination told in colour: Casanova by borrowing and freely drawing inspiration

In cinemas directly from #CANNES75: Armageddon Time di James Gray

A fresco of 1980s America in a delicate family history - Armageddon Time - Marina's review (Photos are courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) The story of a nation seen through the eyes of a single character. The 1980 it is a crucial year to say the least in the history of the United States of America. On the eve of Ronald Reagan's election as President, young Paul (played by Michael Banks Repeta) he attends a public school together with his friend Johnny (Jaylin Webb). The boy dreams of

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