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Five good reason to go to the movies

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The weekend is marked by a number of arthouse films, with three interesting Italian films on offer Centochiodi [+see also:
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, Maradona: The Hand of God [+see also:
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and Liscio), alongside Goodbye Bafana [+see also:
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by Danish Oscar winner Bille August and the multi-award-winning UK film Red Road [+see also:
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The latter – a highly taut story of one woman’s vendetta, set in Glasgow – is the superb debut feature of Andrea Arnold, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2006 and Oscar for Best Short (Wasp) in 2005. Red Road [+see also:
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(see article) stars BAFTA award-winning actress Kate Dickie (see interview) and is distributed by Fandango.

Nelson Mandela once said he had to remain in prison until he could liberate his jailers – an incredible paradox. Joseph Fiennes quoted those words at the Rome press conference of August’s Goodbye Bafana [+see also:
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, in which the British actor plays the white Afrikaner who was Mandela’s guard at the Robben Island Prison in Cape Town (see article). The film is distributed by Istituto Luce.

Italian master filmmaker Ermanno Olmi is asking audiences to follow his “Messiah” (Raz Degan) to the banks of the River Po in Centochiodi [+see also:
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(One Hundred Nails), released on 100 screens by Mikado (see article).

Another kind of messiah – profane and very earthly – is instead depicted by Marco Risi in Maradona: The Hand of God [+see also:
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, a portrait of the Argentinean idol of modern football, Diego Armando Maradona (01 Distribution is releasing it on approximately 130 prints). While this comes just as "el pibe de oro" is being hospitalised yet again, Risi says he did not want to make a film "against" Maradona because "even though he wasn’t exactly a role mode, he never hurt anyone except himself".

Laura Morante stars alongside young Umberto Morelli in Liscio, a film by Claudio Antonini being distributed by Emme Cinematografica on 30 screens. The story of a young boy who dreams of finding the right man for his mother – and decides it should be his music teacher – picked up an award at the first edition of the RomeFilmFest last year.

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(Translated from Italian)

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