05/05/2006

The 2nd edition of the Italian Cinema Meetings kickstarts in Toulouse today, with over 20 of the best and most recent Italian films on show until May 14.

The line-up includes the following nine features: The Fever [+see also:
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film profile] by Alessandro D’Alatri (which opens the festival), Arrivederci amore, ciao by Michele Soavi (distributed in France on July 26 by Pan Européenne), Don’t Tell [+see also:
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film profile] by Cristiana Comencini, Manual of Love by Giovanni Veronesi (to be released July 5 by ARP Sélection), Come Into the Light by Roberto Faenza, Sacred Heart by Ferzan Ozpetek, The Life I Want by Giuseppe Piccioni, Ma quando arrivano le ragazze by Pupi Avati and Saimir [+see also:
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film profile] by Francesco Munzi.

The event also includes a Panorama, featuring Crime Novel [+see also:
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interview: Michele Placido
film profile] by Michele Placido (which garnered over 340,000 admissions in France in six weeks), as well as older quality films relatively unknown by French audiences: Maximum Velocity by Daniele Vicari, The Soul’s Place by Riccardo Milani and The Miracle by Edoardo Winspeare.

Lastly, there will be a retrospective on Avati, who will close the ceremony on May 13. His latest feature, La seconda notte di nozze [+see also:
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film review
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interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Nanni Moretti
film profile] in official competition

(Translated from French)