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83 articles available in total starting from 23/10/2008. Last article published on 05/11/2010.

Brotherhood: Love and other bonds

Like Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, which was unjustly pigeonholed as that “gay cowboy film,” Danish director Nicolo Donato’s feature debut Brotherhood, in competition at the Rome Film Festival,...  

21/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Denmark

Diritti captures Nazi horrors through eyes of little girl

A woman’s swollen, hard belly. “What do you have in your belly?”, “Are you expecting a baby?”, repeat continuously, obsessively, the children of Monte Sole, the hills just a few kilometres from...  

21/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

Life in One Day: Our Hell is time

Benny and Gini are born, go to school and fall in love, in a few hours. Their world is just like ours, except that life lasts only one day, in the suitably entitled Life in One Day. The second...  

21/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Extra/Netherlands

The Boat Race rows into view in Rome

Belgo-Luxembourg co-production The Boat Race premiered in the Alice in the City section of the Rome Film Festival today. The film is the fiction feature debut of Belgian director Bernard...  

21/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Belgium/Luxembourg

Taranto true star of Marpiccolo

It is above all a formidable, desolate and threatening Taranto (in Apulia, with its fumes, concrete and toxic smog) that is at once captivating (a cathedral-city, a symbol of post-industrial...  

20/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Alice in the city/Italy

Oggi Sposi spoon-feeds clichéd laughs

An ensemble comedy that interweaves the stories of four couples on the eve of their weddings, and their families, Oggi Sposi is the fifth feature film by Luca Lucini, one of the most successful...  

20/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Out of Competition/Ital

My Flesh, My Blood: Love and desperation between retired boxer and Vietnamese immigrant

Flesh and blood. Followed by boxing, cocaine, strip joints and desperation, all of which have been Igor’s daily bread ever since he had to leave the ring – his only reason for living – as a result...  

20/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Extra/Pologne

Christine Cristina, A (proto)feminist against the powers that be

“Sooner or later, every actor dreams of being on the other side of the camera”, explains Stefania Sandrelli, one of the icons of Italian cinema. After (almost) fifty years in film – her debut as a...  

20/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Out of competition/Ital

Podalydès’ latest interweaves weaves whirlwind ensemble cast

An office, a public garden, a DIY mega-store: three microcosms populated by characters and stories that brush up against one another as in a whirlwind carillon. The film is Park Benches, the fifth...  

20/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Extra/France

Bunny & the Bull a visionary chamber road movie

Stephen, a sweet but pathologically timid boy, has not left his apartment for years. At home, he catalogues his existence in dozens of containers full of absurd objects: buttons, bus tickets,...  

20/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Extra/UK

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