As everyone knows, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by William Shakespeare for 17 actors…but what happens when you are a small company with 7 actors, no budget, no lights, no sound effects and no design and only that big dream to bring this play on stage at any cost? Well, you have…
Sangue, escrementi, violenza sessuale e fisica,…sì, al centro della scena c’è John…Snow?!?! No, Faustus. Perché no, non è una puntata del Trono di Spade, bensì il nuovo adattamento teatrale del Doctor Faustus marlowiano. Però ci siete andati vicino perché in scena c’è proprio lui: il ventinovenne londinese Kit Harington. Dimenticate l’epoca elisabettiana e il rapporto…
We could reassume the new CW series just in two sentences as the hilarious Italian review Luigi Toto did on his blog: “A mortal virus is killing everyone and you find yourself close in quarantine. Unfortunately is highly contagious so you can’t kiss Chris Wood”. Jokes a part, Containment, is a series you can’t joke…
A long journey but the time is finally here; everyone can now watch on the big screen the Cold War drama Despite the Falling Snow by director (and author of the book) Shamim Sarif. The book was published in 2004 and we had out our first news about its adaptation for the big screen on…
♦♦♦♦◊ A long journey but the time is finally here; everyone can now watch on the big screen the Cold War drama Despite the Falling Snow by director (and author of the book) Shamim Sarif. The book was published in 2004 and we had out our first news about its adaptation for the big screen…
Matthew Warchus‘ The Caretaker at the Old Vic is another winning for Kevin Spacey‘s successor. Harold Pinter‘s tragicomedy can also count three oustanding actors. If Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner, Harry Potter) is not a surprise, Daniel Mays (Dad’s Army, Victor Frankenstein) is a pleasant confirmation. But is the young George MacKay to give a cloying performance…
Matthew Warchus‘ The Caretaker at the Old Vic is another winning for Kevin Spacey‘s successor. Harold Pinter‘s tragicomedy can also count three oustanding actors. If Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner, Harry Potter) is not a surprise, Daniel Mays (Dad’s Army, Victor Frankenstein) is a pleasant confirmation. But is the young George MacKay to give a cloying performance…
Few years after Shell (2012), writer-director Scott Graham comes back with another touching Scottish drama. Iona is the tale of a single mum (Ruth Negga) returning home with her teenage son Billy, called Bull (an outstanding debut for Ben Gallagher) to take refuge after a violent incident. If the first version of the movie, screened few months…
1951. Tilly Dunnage (a marvellous Kate Winslet), is a talented stylist who after 20 years spent with the most important stylists in London, Milan and Paris comes back to Dungatar, a small village in Australia. Tilly had been forced to leave the small village while still a child, following a tragic event; but now she is…
Jonas Carpignano‘s movie is one of the best evidence about immigration in Italy, especially in the south of the country, where we can meet thousands of Ayiva and Abas. Mediterranea starts with our two main characters, Ayiva and Abas precisely, who find themselves in Algeria, having left Burkina Faso and trying to get to the…
Land of Mine is a tragic unknown chapter about the end of the WWII in Denmark with a stunning young cast and great suspense (watch the cast at the Festival screening here) When five years of German occupation come to an end in May 1945, team of 12 young German soldiers were assigned to Danish…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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