Set in the almost Dickensian confines of a modern Pawnbrokers, Le Ultime Cose depicts the lives of several different characters who are all variously forced by personal circumstances and lack of any public help into pawnbrokers to part with precious things. Also as a clever contrast it plots the initiation of an enthusiastic, honest and…
A tender love story intertwines with the allied conquer of Sicily during WWII, where the US Army had to find partners in the local society. A love story set in July ’43 when Allied forces landed in Sicily. Arturo loves Flora, daughter of a restaurant owner, but she has been promised in marriage to a…
The 57th edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival will take place this year from 16 to 20 June. The nominations were announced today and next to a huge number of British works, in primis BBC acclaimed series Victoria starring Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes, David Oakes and Rufus Sewell (read here our review). Among the others…
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world’s most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the…
Few years ago, in a pub in Covent Garden I met a young Italian-American boy during the football match Juventus – Naples. I asked him why he was supporting Naples being American and he said, almost with shame, that his grandfather was a Neapolitan; but that he always told him not to tell anyone or…
The day after the successful screening at Shortwave Cinema in London, My Brother’s Voice (La voce di mio fratello) by 30 year -old Italian director Andrea Bersani wins at the UK FILM FESTIVAL. After a marvellous opening night on Tuesday, November 22nd at BFI Stephens Street and the screening of three short-movie, from Wednesday, November…
Sweet Dreams is the first movie directed by Marco Bellocchio not based on a director’s script. This is the real story of Italian journalist Massimo Gramellini and it’s adapted from Gramellini’s 2012 novel Sweet Dreams, Little One. On screen outstanding actor Valerio Mastandrea is Massimo, while another great Italian actor, Guido Caprino ( Medici: Masters…
Sold out screening at Genesis Cinema on Sunday, November 6th for the London Premiere of One Kiss (Un bacio) organised by Cinema Italia UK. The rain and the usual London-November-ish weather, could not stop the desire to attend the screening of the latest highly acclaimed work of the Italian writer, screenwriter and director Ivan Cotroneo; a loud…
Take a inch of Hitchcock, add a sip of Lynch and mix with a tea spoon of Kubrick. This is the perfect recipe for the seductive, enchanting, toxic new Tom Ford-s thriller Nocturnal Animals. Starting from Tony and Susan by Austin Wright, for his second feature after A Single Man, Ford puts together life essential…
In Worldly Girl (La ragazza del mondo) Marco Danieli ( here our interview at the Film Makers Afternoon Tea) throws us into the stiff world Jehovah’s witnesses, an orthodox religious movement which has one of its most thriving communities in Italy. Despite their big presence among us, even us Italian are aware of their presence only…
These Days (Questi Giorni) is the last movie by Giuseppe Piccioni (listen here our Afternoon Tea interview with him in Italian) presented at the BFI London Film Festival in the session Journey. Loosely based on the unpublished novel “Color Betulla Giovane” by Marta Bertini, These Days is a bittersweet road movie following four young girls in…
Interview with Giuseppe Piccioni (in Italian) at 60th BFI Lodon Film Festival
Trepass Against Us is the first shy try to talk about Gypsy and traveller community. But when the men in charge are patriarch Brendan Gleeson and his son, on screen, Michael Fassbender well…you actually pretend a little better feature. Even if the two main actors, as patriarch Colby and his son Chad are stunning as…
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. It doesn’t matter what is going to happen at the 60th BFI LFF or at any other festival this year; because we have the best movie of the last decade. Daniel Chazelle’s La La Land leaves with only a very big huge assurance: a hail of Oscars coming…
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