Siamo abituati a vederlo sfidare personaggi dai tratti difficili; che siano essi storici come Ulisse o Caravaggio; oppure moderni come il maestro Marioni, il “bastardo” de La Compagnia del Cigno; ma il Boni – Don Chisciotte è molto più che l’ennesima prova di bravura, è una sfida coraggiosa: quella di portare in scena un uomo…
After Miss Julie di Patrick Marber viene adattato alla messa in scena italiana trasferendo l’ambientazione dall’Inghilterra di metà Novecento alla Milano dei festeggiamenti per la liberazione del 29 aprile 1945; così come lo stesso Marber aveva trasposto il testo originale di August Strindberg dalla Svezia del 1888 (notte di San Giovanni) alla sua Inghilterra del…
Stranger by Peter Skinner is set to be screen on Sunday, 13 January at Flickerfest in Sydney as part of the Best of Australian program. Stranger is a 19 minute-long short movie and tells the story of a dangerous, charming and mysterious wanderer covered in tattoos and haunted by a nightmare. He drifts confidently through…
Lavorare non è vergogna, non lavorare è vergogna: LA CLASSE OPERAIA VA IN PARADISO
Abel Goldfarb’s Ian is an outstanding animated short movie winner of the Oscar qualifying prize at the LA Shorts International Film Fest. Ian tells the story, the true story of a nine-year disabled boy, Ian precisely, born with cerebral palsy and who wants to make friends outside his school (where his mum told in Cannes…
Based on Martin Amis novel Night Train, this poignant mix of crime movie and drama is the new creation by surprising director Carol Morley whose passion for eerie stories and female characters already emerged with her previous The Falling. Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is investigating on the mysterious death of an astrophysicist (Mamie Gummer). Her research will soon try to get…
An important premise: it’s pointless to compare the original Suspiria by Dario Argento with this version just released by Call Me By Your Name acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino as this one is more a variation on a theme created by Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi. The original plot, which sees the young Suzy Bannion (Dakota Johnson) join the Markos…
After the successful remake of True Grit, Joel and Ethan Coen take another walk down the violent Memory Lane of Old Wild West with a curious experiment which puts together various stories they wrote down along the last twenty-five years. It was initially conceived as a mini-series but later found its final shape as a movie which has been awarded…
Early morning. The telephone rings in the house of acclaimed writer Joseph Castleman (Jonathan Pryce). It’s the Swedish Academy, announcing that Joseph will be awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature. News are overwhelming and soon the Castlemans are surrounded by the joy and congratulations of all their friends, praising the writer and his family:…
These violent delights have violent ends: WESTWORLD SEASON 2 (no spoiler)
Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning are ready to make us to fall in love with Netflix‘s latest psychological thriller The Alienist. New York, 1890. Daniel Brühl is Laszlo Kreisler, a criminal psychologist (or alienist) who is on the hunt for a killer responsable for a number of ritualistic child murders. These years are…
Meritato successo ieri sera, giovedì 15 marzo, al teatro Gioiello di Torino per la prima delle quattro serate, già tutte sold-out, di Viktor Und Viktoria (qui trovate il trailer) con Veronica Pivetti e Giorgio Lupano. Berlino, anni ’30, tra i fasti e la miseria della Repubblica di Weimar. Dalla provincia è appena giunta, nella città…
This Beautiful Fantastic tells the story of Bella (Jessica Brown Findlay, England is Mine, The Riot Club, Downton Abbey), an aspiring author who works in a library and who suffers of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). When she is told she will be evicted from her rented house if she doesn’t tend to the propriety garden,…
Dimenticate tutto ciò che sapete sui medical drama perché The Resident è ad anni luce di distanza dai vari E.R, Chicago Med, Grey’s Anatomy o The Good Doctor. La nuova serie di Fox è una visione cinica, pessimistica e cupa di quella parte di sanità che troppo spesso sentiamo ai telegiornali. Nessuna “famiglia allargata” tra…
Forget all you know about medicals drama, ’cause The Resident is so far away from our comfort zone; far away from E.R., Grey’s Anatomy, Chicago Med or The Good Doctor. Fox‘s new drama is a pessimistic and cynical look of what, luckily not so often, goes on in corporatized healthcare. What makes The Resident even…
