Straight from #Cannes77 #The Substance by Coralline Fargeat

Un'interpretazione femminista e cruenta dell'horror corporeo In conferenza stampa Thierry Frémaux ci aveva avvertito che il primo film di in concorso potrebbe scuotere il Grand Théâtre Lumière. Blood and horror are the order of the day in the film The Substance. The promise of The Substance is a revolutionary product based on cell division, which creates a younger alter ego, more beautiful, more perfect. Elizabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) discovers this new product in a movie trailer. The rest of the plot remains a mystery, but the tone has been set: hold fast! Se The Substance

Directly from #CANNES77 #THE APPRENTICE by Ali ABBASI

A ridosso delle Elezioni USA un tuffo nel ventre molle dell'impero americano Sinossi: Iranian-Danish director Abbasi's first English-language feature film shows Donald Trump as a young real estate executive in 1970s New York in a "Faustian agreement" with lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn - from a screenplay by the author of The Loudest Voice In The Room by Gabriel Shermann. Review: You remember the Fahrenheit catchphrase 11/9 in Michael Moore del 2018 who explained Trump's rise to power in his own way. Well in “The apprentice”

Directly from the #Cannes77 Festival ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal Kapadia

What it means to live in India today? What is the condition of women? Payal Kapadia answers these questions with her second feature film: All We Imagine As Light vincitore al Festival di Cannes È la storia di tre infermiere che lavorano in un piccolo ospedale nella moderna Mumbai: the brave and taciturn Prabha (Kani Kusruti), the young and dreamy Anu (Divya Prabha) and The Elderly and Never Tamed Parvaty (Chaya Kadam). The three women came to the big city from their villages, when they were younger. Let's observe the three women at work

#CANNES77@Roma 24 – 30 June 2024 Day 4 (AAVV)

Grazie all’ANEC Lazio prosegue per tutta la settimana a Roma la strepitosa carrellata direttamente dall’ultimo Festival di Cannes Noi c’eravamo per voi e vi proponiamo i nostri commenti sui film, especially today the fourth day 27 June - ROMA CENTRO Cinema 4 FONTANE h.19:00 THE MOST PRECIOUS OF GOODS by Michel Hazanavicius / 80’ (COMPETITION – ANIMATION) Luigi Noera saw it for us and we report his impressions: “Who would have thought that from the inspiration of the director of The Artist and the most recent Cannes opening zombie remake of 2022, Final Cut

#CANNES77@Roma 24 – 30 June 2024 Day 3 (AAVV)

Grazie all’ANEC Lazio prosegue per tutta la settimana a Roma la strepitosa carrellata direttamente dall’ultimo Festival di Cannes Noi c’eravamo per voi e vi proponiamo i nostri commenti sui film, especially today third day 26 June - ROMA PRATI Cinema GIULIO CESARE h.16:45 BAKENEKU ANZU-CHAN di Nobuhiro Yamashita e Yōko Kuno / 97’ (FILMMAKERS' FORTNIGHT) Luigi Noera saw it for us and we report his impressions: “It is the story of an eleven-year-old girl Karin entrusted by her inept widowed father Tetsuya to her monk grandfather who lives in the temple with the cat

#MONGREL di Chiang Wei Liang and You Qiao Yin – direttamente da #Cannes77

Previewed at the Directors' Fortnight of #Cannes77, the film tells the story of an illegal migrant who becomes a carer for the elderly and disabled in the mountains of Taiwan, adesso inserito nella rassegna romana @Canness77@Roma Recensione: With a slow narrative, whose dialogues are reduced to the bare bones, the work denounces the conditions of exploitation of migrant workers in Taiwan, forced in turn to recruit migrants and tourists who will be condemned to the same fate as them. This first work looks you straight in the eye and throws you into the center of the dark setting, also thanks to the photography choices

#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #31 (DAY12): THE PRICES

The International Jury disavows the predictions of the day before and awards the Palme d'Or to ANORA by Sean Baker (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) I PALMARES 2024 The Jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, chaired by the director, American screenwriter and actress Greta Gerwig, assisted by the Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, by American actress Lily Gladstone, by French actress Eva Green, by Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, together with the director e

#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #30 (DAY12)

The Focus by Valentina Vignoli: the revelation film comes from India, absent for thirty years from the Croisette which wins the Grand Prix (from Cannes Luigi Noera and Maria Vittoria Battaglia with the kind collaboration of Vittorio De Agrò (RS) and Valentina Vignoli - the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival) Synopsis: The self-written story centers on two nurses in troubled relationships in Mumbai who embark on a journey to a beach town, a welcome refuge that gives them space to grow. “Mumbai is the city of illusions”, says one

#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #28 (DAY 11): The critical gaze of Vittorio De Agrò from the Palais

In the final rush, the Festival kicks into high gear thanks to the Iranian film that claims the Palme d'Or (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 THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG di Mohammad Rasoulof (ed: recently went into voluntary exile from Iran) Synopsis: The story concerns an investigating judge of the revolutionary court of Tehran struggling with mistrust and paranoia that lead him to suspect his own wife and her

#CANNES77 – 14/25 May 2024 SPECIAL #26 (DAY10): The critical gaze of Maria Vittoria from the Croisette

The two non-competitive side sections close with two unmissable films! (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) At the final stages, the transversal prize for all sections for the best DOC #L'Œil d'or was awarded 2024 The L'Œil d'or award 2024 –Ex aequo went to: Ernest Cole : Lost and Found di Raoul Peck Nota della giuria: «A film that follows the journey of a young South African photographer during the

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