One year after High-Rise starring among the others Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller; Ben Wheatley comes back to the London Film Festival with the Closing Gala movie Free Fire. The cast is, once again, made by the best actors and in this case only one actress, from the year before: Armie…
I don’t like boxing fight so I don’t like movie about boxing fighters too…but after 2 minutes in front of a big screen I was deeply in love already with Bleed For This…and I think that I’d even stop my review here, because if a movie has a power like this, well, to say it…
Eric Heisser works on short sci-fi tale Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang to write a script that director Denis Villeneuve shoots as one of the most touching sci-fi movie with the precious help of two amazing stars as Amy Adams ( also at the Festival with Nocturnal Animals) and Jeremy Renner. These are…
A United Kingdom is not just one of the best true love stories ever told but it’s the tale of a too long-forgotten and shameful chapter of British history. Director Amma Asante and screenwriter Guy Hibbert, helped by lead actors Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo are able to present this amazing story in a sharp…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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