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Review #Venezia74: Marvin

Carmen Mc Intoshvenezia74September 4, 2017September 6, 2017

Directed by Anne Fontaine, Marvin is a film on life seen through the eyes of a homosexual boy in a small town of France. 

Review #Venezia74: The Leisure Seeker

Carmen Mc Intoshvenezia74September 3, 2017September 3, 2017

Directed by Paolo Virzì, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, The Leisure Seeker is a beautiful on the road film about getting old and suicide. The plot is based on the novel The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian.

Review #Venezia74: La vita in comune

Carmen Mc Intoshvenezia74September 3, 2017September 3, 2017

Directed by Edoardo Winspeare, La vita in comune is a magnifying glass over life in a small village in Puglia, Italy, named Disperata. The film maintains its true nature by having the actors act in typical “salentino”, a Puglia dialect.

Review #Venezia74: Lean On Pete

Carmen Mc Intoshvenezia74September 2, 2017September 3, 2017

Based on the novel Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin and directed by Andrew Haigh, Lean on Pete is the story of a young boy in Portland, Oregon, and his journey to Wyoming.

Review #Venezia74: Suburbicon

Carmen Mc Intoshvenezia74September 2, 2017September 3, 2017

Directed by George Clooney and written by also the Coen brothers, Suburbicon is an absurd comedy-crime film, with peaks of suspense and tension, mixed with comedy and drama.

Downsizing di A. Payne, la misura della felicità

admin adminvenezia74September 1, 2017June 25, 2020

Quanto può essere “grande” la felicità? Per Alexander Payne ed il suo Downsizing essa dovrebbe misurare circa 12 cm.

Review #Venezia74: Nico, 1988

Carmen Mc Intoshvenezia74September 1, 2017September 3, 2017

Her name can be associated with the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol: a tall and blonde German model, with a deep but still angelic voice. Nico, 1988 is directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli and it’s the story of the great Christa Päffgen, aka Nico.

Review #Venezia74: The Shape of Water

Carmen Mc Intoshvenezia74September 1, 2017September 3, 2017

Guillermo del Toro has come back with another of his fantasy films, and he definitely made a masterpiece.

Review #Venezia74: The Insult

Carmen Mc Intoshvenezia74August 31, 2017September 3, 2017

The Insult is directed by Ziad Doueiri, who has been Tarantino’s camera assistant for Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Reservoir Dogs. This collaboration could probably have influenced Ziad’s filming style, but he actually reveals that he didn’t think of the filming part, he just filmed.

African film Festival al Lido di Venezia

admin adminCinemaAugust 31, 2017June 25, 2020

African Film Festival: uno sguardo reale sull’attualità africana.