Let him go: THE WAIT
Juliette Binoche in Sicilian Pietro Messina’s movie The Wait is a grieving mother who can’t bring herself to tell her son’s French girlfriend that he’s died (here the link to the Festival screening). Anna (Binoche) lives in an enormous villa her Italian husband left to her in the shadow of Etna volcano. The movie starts with…
It’s really scary to be alive and to be human: THE END OF THE TOUR
The End of the Tour is a quite touching movie based on journalist David Lipsky‘s memoir of spending five days in 1996 with writer David Foster Wallace during his Infinite Jest publicity tour, 12 years before Wallace‘s suicide. In 2008 Wallace hanged himself when he was just 46, and Lipsky used the material in a…
We are the last survivors: REMEMBER
Zev Guttman (an incredible Christopher Palmer) is a 90-year-old widower falling prey with dementia. He lives in a nursing home with Max (Martin Landau). The both are Auschwitz survivor, the five numbers on their left forearms are there to remember it every time they want to forget. Zev escaped from Germany to the United States at the…
The test of fire: BLOOD OF MY BLOOD
Blood of my Blood is a summary of all Marco Bellocchio’s cinema. In this movie we find lots of Bellocchio‘s favourite topics: the figure of the brother who commits suicide (subject also used in Gli Occhi, La Bocca; but he was unhappy with the result), the topic of the two single sisters, his favourite city Bobbio where…
My mum doesn’t raise a quitter: THE PROGRAM
I remember all my summer afternoons spent in front of the TV cheering for the Yellow Machine, for the man who first beat cancer and then started to beat everyone else. So maybe is for these teen memories that The Program glued me to the seat unable to move, to breath and with the heart…
Mania, narcissism and power failure: HIGH – RISE
Dr. Robert Laing lives on the 27th floor of a tower block with its own supermarket, its own gym and its own swimming pool. From the first floors where the well-off live, to the top where super rich spend their afternoon between horses kept in the roof-garden and parties; we have the right social order.…
I play the orchestra: Steve Jobs
Danny Boyle’s movie closed the 59th London Film Festival as the best icing on the cake ever seen. True; this is a redundant story even on the big screen: Noah Wyle ( E.R.’s Doctor Carter) portrayed Steve Jobs in 1999 in the masterpiece Pirates of Silicon Valley. More recently, in 2013, Ashton Kutcher was Steve…
I swear my eternal virginity: SWORN VIRGIN
In a Film Festival focus on gender that opened with Suffraggettes, Sworn Virgin by Italian director Laura Bispuri is for sure a movie that can’t pass unnoticed. Bispuri‘s film (here our interview with her) tells about patriarchal Albanian tradition to ask whether renouncing sex can ever be the path to personal freedom. The movie…
A chat with: Laura Bispuri (file audio)
A Chat With: Allen Leech at LFF Awards
High Rise: on stage with Tom Hiddleston and director Ben Wheatley
A Chat With: Pier Giorgio Bellocchio (Blood of my Blood)
Love Gala: Luca Guadagnino and Ralph Fiennes talk about A Bigger Splash
LFCC: One for all and all for one. Few words with The Musketeers
We met two of the main characters from the BBC successful series The Musketeers at LFCC. First, we approached Milady de Winter (Maimie McCoy). She was seat at the table between her on screen husband Athos (Tom Burke) and D’Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino) in the full splendour of her soon mum to be beauty. Despite her…
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