(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) Two eagerly awaited films in competition by G. Amelio e Joanna Hogg infiammano il Lido VENEZIA 79 Concorso IL SIGNORE DELLE FORMICHE di GIANNI AMELIO con Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco / Italy / 134’ SINOSSI Alla fine degli anni Sessanta si celebrò a Roma un processo che fece scalpore. The playwright and poet Aldo Braibanti was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment
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#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #9: (DAYS 5&6) 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) There are films that ask many questions about existence, e purtroppo non danno risposte VENEZIA 79 Concorso LES ENFANTS DES AUTRES di REBECCA ZLOTOWSKI con Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Clare Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira / France / 104’ Una donna priva dall'istinto materno va giudicata, seen differently than the rest of the female universe? Also discovering that you want a child when your biological clock is running backwards
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #8: (DAYS 5&6)
(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) SERGEI LOZNITSA returns to the Lido with a very current powerful documentary, mentre nella sezione autonoma GdA si racconta dell’ultima regina della sponda sud mediterranea FUORI CONCORSO - NON FICTION THE KIEV TRIAL di SERGEI LOZNITSA Paesi Bassi, Ukraine / 106’ SINOSSI Il processo di Kiev, also known as the 'Nuremberg of Kiev', took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and it was one of the first trials
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #7: (DAYS 2 – 4) – 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) LUCA GUADAGNINO conquers the public, Abel Ferrara confronts the spirituality of Padre Pio (St Pio of Petralcina) usando incautamente l’inglese VENEZIA 79 Concorso BONES AND ALL di LUCA GUADAGNINO con Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Andre Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz / USA / 130’ È complicato esprimere un giudizio definitivo sull’ultimo film di Luca
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #6: (DAYS 2 – 4) – 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) Discovering new talents in Horizons, ma anche dalla Biennale College ORIZZONTI NAJSREЌNIOT ČOVEK NA SVETOT (THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD) di TEONA STRUGAR MITEVSKA con Jelena Kordić Kuret, Adnan Omerović, Labina Mitevska, Ana Kostovska, Ksenija Marinković, Izudin Bajrović / North Macedonia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia / 95’ Il giudizio di Maria Vittoria Battaglia è 4,5/5 Intense, like a hug. Powerful, come
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #5: (DAYS 2 – 4) – Anna Maria Stramondo's intense pills.
(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 sezione ORIZZONTI ospita Isabelle Huppert nella veste di una sindacalista VENEZIA 79 Concorso BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A FEW TRUTHS by ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU with Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andres Almeida, Francisco Rubio / Messico SINOSSI BARDO, Falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades is an epic and visually stunning immersive experience, set during the intimate and moving journey of Silverio,
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #4: (DAYS 2 – 4)
(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 first three days decree the success of LUCA GUADAGNINO with a trashy iconography from the STATES (REVIEW) Although we are not present in Venice in these early days, we have recovered some films and we will tell you about them. VENEZIA 79 Concorso ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED di LAURA POITRAS USA / 113’ SINOSSI All the Beauty and the Bloodshed è la storia epica ed emozionante dell’artista e attivista di
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #3: (DAY 1) 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) Dalle Giornate degli Autori SELEZIONE UFFICIALE IN CONCORSO DIRTY, DIFFICULT, DANGEROUS by Wissam Charaf – opening film France, Italy, Lebanon, 2022, 101’ Sinossi: Beirut. Lebanon. Today. Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and Mehdia, an Ethiopian immigrant who works as a housekeeper, they live a clandestine love made of furtive kisses in the streets of Beirut. While Mehdia tries to free himself from his employers, Ahmed, affected by
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #2: (DAY 1) PRINCESS by ROBERTO DE PAOLIS
(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) Roberto De Paolis opened the “Orizzonti” competition with his second film, demonstrating courage and creativity in telling us with sensitivity, street prostitution grace and lightness: the most painful one, dangerous and difficult to live and bear for anyone! Although prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and artistically much has been said over the decades, written and done on
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #1: (DAY 1) Post pandemic opening
(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) L’EDIZIONE POST PANDEMIA STUPISCE CON IL FILM DI APERTURA DI ORIZZONTI Prima di iniziare è doveroso il nostro ringraziamento alle nostre corrispondenti le quali hanno collaborato a questa edizione post pandemia ed in particolare Maria Vittoria Battaglia che segue Venezia dal WEB e Anna Maria Stramondo con le sue intense pillole. Thanks also to Vittorio De Agrò for his fraternal commitment. But come on