27/03/2008

Of the four Italian films on release tomorrow, three are comedies, beginning with Paolo Virzì, who returns with another foray, ironic as always, into the working world. His newest, Tutta la vita davanti [+see also:
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A broad, comical detective story, reminiscent of Murder By Death the the over-the-top films of Alex de la Iglesia, Filippo Cipriano’s Misstake [+see also:
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In joke-like title Ci sta un francese, un inglese e un napoletano [+see also:
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An entirely different atmosphere pervades the fourth Italian title of the weekend, Paolo Franchi’s Fallen Heroes [+see also:
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Other European titles include two French co-productions: the first English-language film by Wong Kar-wai, My Blueberry Nights [+see also:
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Domenico Procacci’s Fandango is releasing on two screens the French-Israeli documentary Avenge But One of My Two Eyes by Avi Mograbi, on the effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Besides Russian title Mars by Anna Melikyan (Officine Ubu), the other releases are all US titles: Marc Forster’s The Kite Runner (Filmauro), Jake Kasdan’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Sony) and Peter Hedges’ Dan in Real Life (Eagle Pictures).

(Translated from Italian)