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Pedro Armocida

10 articles available in total starting from 07/09/2009. Last article published on 14/01/2010.

The Man Who Will Come

A moving tribute to a dramatic chapter in Italian history and a double award-winner (by audiences and the jury) at last year's Rome Film Festival  

14/01/2010 | Films | Reviews

Mr. Nobody

A beautiful love story which blends very convincingly with a screenplay on the different narrative levels of the non-linear journey through temporal space  

05/01/2010 | Films | Reviews

The Concert

The bizarre and moving adventures of a Russian orchestra striving to relive a past cancelled by the Soviet regime. A co-production between France, Romania, Belgium and Italy  

22/10/2009 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Radu Mihaileanu • Director

“Humour is the ultimate weapon against dictators”

Cineuropa met with the French-Romanian director after the out-of-competition screening of his fourth feature film, The Concert, at the 2009 Rome Film Festival  

22/10/2009

Diritti captures Nazi horrors through eyes of little girl

A woman’s swollen, hard belly. “What do you have in your belly?”, “Are you expecting a baby?”, repeat continuously, obsessively, the children of Monte Sole, the hills just a few kilometres from...  

21/10/2009 | Rome Film Festival | Competition/Italy

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

Van Dormael makes epic with Mr. Nobody

There’s a bit of everything in this epic film by Jaco Van Dormael, director of Toto the Hero and The Eighth Day. It draws on sci-fi fantasies of over 100 years of cinema, as well numerous films...  

12/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/France

Akin’s exhilarating comedy Soul Kitchen

The vitality of auteur cinema shines through in this film with a culturally-mixed cast, production team and narrative. The surprise of the 2009 Venice competition, Soul Kitchen, by Fatih Akin,...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/Germany

Surviving by helping others in Tender Parasites

Jakob (Robert Stadlober) and Manu (Maja Schöne) are truly Tender Parasites in the German film by Christian Becker and Oliver Schwabe (who also co-directed Egoshooter, shown at Locarno in 2004),...  

09/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Horizons | Germany

Rivette steps into the ring with 36 Views of Saint-Loup Peak

The circus as a metaphor for life: it’s not a particularly original idea, especially in cinema (explored in different ways by directors from Chaplin to Fellini). But it isn’t the image of a circus...  

07/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/France

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