#DO NOTCLOSEICINEMA: AFIC WORRY ABOUT FESTIVAL SUSPENSION AND HALLS CLOSURE

We receive and gladly publish by associating ourselves with the contents: "AFIC - Association of Italian Film Festivals while sharing the principles aimed at preserving public health that informed today's Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, expresses strong concern over the decision to close, for at least a month, cinemas e, Consequently, to suspend film festivals. Our thoughts and closeness naturally go to all the cinematographic events taking place in these hours and to those scheduled, but often rescheduled after the closures of the last lockdown, in the next weeks.

SPECIAL # ROMAFF15 #8 – 15/25 OCTOBER 2020: (DAY 4) Fortuna by Nicolangelo Gelormini - the review by Maria Vittoria

(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia - Photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma) Narrazione delicata di un caso di violenza su una bambina Ricordo esattamente il 2014 when the news broke the news of Fortuna Loffredo's death in Parco Verde, Caivano, and I remember the dismay of the days that happened when, as the investigation continues, we were all made aware of the circumstances of this death. Fortuna, 6 just years, died after falling from the seventh floor, Delicate narration of a case of violence against a child I remember exactly the

#Cannes2020 at LUMIER FILM FESTIVAL - Lyon 10/ 18 October

The official selection of the Festival de Cannes 2020 at the Lumière Film festival in Lyon together with Cannes Classics 2020 After making its mark at AFCAE festivals, Angoulême, Deauville and San Sebastián, the selected films of the Festival de Cannes 2020 they will stop at the Lumière Film festival in Lyon from 10 al 18 October, before heading to Rome and returning to the Croisette for three exceptional days in late October. Over the course of eight days dedicated to the celebration of past and present cinema, the public and the media will be able to watch the previews of

Paradise a new life by Davide Del Degan: the review by Maria Vittoria Battaglia

An exhilarating lesson in justice and humanity. PARADISE a new life by DAVIDE DEL DEGAN is an Italy - Slovenia co-production, produced by PILGRIM and A ATALANTA with RAI CINEMA, distribuito daFandango Distribuzione e nei cinema dall’8 ottobre Calogero (Vincenzo Nemolato), witness to murder, he was included in the witness protection program and transferred from Sicily to Sauris, a small town on the border between Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Slovenia. who, for a variety of reasons, he will find himself face to face with the same killer again, with which, after a troubled start to say the least,

Alone at my wedding: history of social and psychological distress

From 1 October at the cinema directed by Marta Bergman presented at the ACID section of Cannes and at the Rome Independent Film Festival. Distributed in Italy by CINECLUB INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION. The director, Romanian by birth, she immediately dedicated herself to the documentary, exploring Romania and observing Roma communities. This is his first fiction feature film. Finally, after the stop due to the pandemic, this harrowing story of social and psychological unease arrives in our rooms. It is the story of the young Roma Pamela, single mother, which for itself and for

ROUBAIX, A LIGHT by ARNAUD DESPLECHIN: the review by Maria Vittoria Battaglia

Thriller incompiuto che mette a nudo l’umanità dei criminali di una Francia desolata Esce il 1 October, distributed by No.Mad Entertainment, ROUBAIX, A LIGHT, film by Arnaud Desplechin in Competition at Cannes 2019 and premiered at the RENDEZ-VOUS in Rome. The film was designated Film of the Critics by the National Union of Italian Film Critics - SNCCI with the following motivation: “An experienced and compassionate commissioner. Two women who are lovers and possibly murderers. A city, Roubaix, far north of France, wasteland and impoverished land, filmed with livid and nocturnal tones. A polar

Greenland, di Ric Roman Waugh: the review by Maria Vittoria Battaglia

L’ultima catastrofe che si abbatte sul Pianeta Terra mette a nudo l’empatia umana che si basa sulla speranza GREENLAND un film di RIC ROMAN WAUGH con GERARD BUTLER e MORENA BACCARIN DAL 1° OTTOBRE AL CINEMA distribuito da UNIVERSAL PICTURES e LUCKY RED in associazione con 3 MARYS ENTERTAINMEN Greenland è una storia che ormai abbiamo già sentito: there is some natural catastrophe - in this case the collision of a comet, Clarke - leading to the end of the world and / or the extinction of mankind. And there it is, in front of

Paolo Conte, Away with me by Giorgio Verdelli: the review by Maria Vittoria Battaglia

Il lato musicale di Paolo Conte artista a 360° Presentato Fuori Concorso alla 77ma Mostra di Venezia il film no fiction è in arrivo nelle sale italiane, produced by Sudovest Produzioni, Indigo Film in collaboration with Rai Cinema, only the 28, 29, 30 September distributed by Nexo Digital in collaboration with the media partners Radio Capital, MYMovies.it, Rockol.it and with Concerto Music. "On the amaranth mouse it goes which is a charm" sang Conte in the 70s. And the same amaranth mouse guides us through Piedmontese landscapes and narrow streets of Asti in one

THE WRONG DAY: Russel Crowe is the undisputed protagonist

The Wrong Day Since 24 September at the Cinema Directed by Derrick Borte with Russell Crowe. An exclusive for Italy LEONE FILM GROUP distributed by 01 DISTRIBUITION – RAI CINEMA Quante volte ci è capitato di mandare a quel paese un automobilista maleducato e prepotenet. On the other hand, gratuitous violence in our chaotic metropolises is on the agenda. Russel Crowe is the undisputed protagonist of this story of ordinary madness. Already the Incipit prepares us for the worst: on a rainy evening a man fires the house where his ex-wife lives the new one

Actor Michael Lonsdale has returned to Heavenly Father

After a path of Christian witness, at the age of 89 years left us the French-born actor and English father Michael Lonsdale. Over sixty films in his long career that began in the 1960s. The extraordinary experience of faith of the actor known for having interpreted, in the movie Men of God, one of the monks of Tibhirine: "Believing is a gift that cannot be kept to oneself". But recently also films like The cardboard village, directed by Ermanno Olmi (2011), Gebo and the shadow, regia di Manoel de Oliveira (2012) and finally Les Premiers, the last, directed by Bouli

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