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

Castellitto searches for son, and himself in Keep Up Your Head

With his second film (and second time in competition at the Rome Film Festival), after the superb The Salty Air, Alessandro Angelini confirms his talent and sincere, original perspective with...  

19/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

Kahn serves up fiery Regrets in Rome

French director Cédric Kahn returns to the world of adults for Regrets, the follow-up to his children’s film The Airplane. The film is the only fully French production in Competition at the Rome...  

19/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/France

Mihaileanu's Concert examines the past denied

To come to terms with the past. One’s own. Radu Mihaileanu, Romanian (who fled to France in 1980 to escape the Ceausescu regime) and Jewish, is not one to renounce this filmmaker’s privilege, and...  

18/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Out of Competition

Scenes from Tolstoy’s marriage in The Last Station

Husband and wife argue, scream, smash the china, laugh, hug, and make up: the normal ups and downs in any marriage, you could say. But when the Mr. and Mrs. are Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia,...  

18/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Germany-UK

Simon Konianski: Kvetching one’s life away

After setting his story of Cossack violence “somewhere to the East,” in his first feature Horse Thieves, Belgian filmmaker Micha Wald returns to the land of his ancestors, the Ukraine, once again...  

18/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Extra/Belgium

Every Day is a Holiday: Echoes of war between dream and reality

In post-war Lebanon, every day is a holiday. "Every day is different. Every day we expect a catastrophe, which sometimes happens, and sometimes does not,” says Lebanese director Dima El-Horr (who...  

17/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition

Three characters lost in the night in After

Seville-born director Alberto Rodríguez presented his eagerly awaited new work, After, in Official Competition at the 4th Rome Film Festival. The film is a devastating and bittersweet journey to...  

17/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Spain

Historical Sea Violet a timely story of freedom and love

After the young woman fighting against the Mafia in Marco Amenta’s film, presented last year at the Rome International Film Festival, comes another “rebellious Sicilian girl”. In Donatella...  

16/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

The Be All and End All: Laughter and tears

The Alice in the City programme, aimed at children and youngsters, kicked off at the Rome Film Festival today with the first screening of British production The Be All and End All. The film is the...  

16/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Alice in the City/UK

Tim Roth an unorthodox owl-angel in Skellig

Rebellious, fallen, in love: there have been quite a few unorthodox angels in cinema. To that list we can now add Skellig (played by Tim Roth), the feathered creature of the title of British...  

16/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Alice in the City/UK

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