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Gabriele Barcaro


443 articles available in total starting from 25/06/2007. Last article published on 03/02/2011.

Love lasting ten winters in Dieci Inverni

How much time does it take to realise that a stranger we meet by chance is “the right person”, the love of our life? For Silvestro and Camilla, it probably only takes a glance, the look they steal...  

05/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Controcampo Italiano

Maselli explores shadows of the Left

Everything can be said about Francesco (“Citto”) Maselli and his films, except that he doesn’t flirt openly with symbols and metaphors: the Red Shadows of the title of his latest film (screening...  

03/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Out of competition/Italy

Tornatore’s broad Sicilian canvas, Baarìa, opens fest

It had been ages since Italy opened – and in competition, yet – the Venice Film Festival (September 2-12): a big responsibility for Giuseppe Tornatore. He was on the Lido last night to present the...  

02/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/Italy

Lost women at Locarno

Women, women and more women: lost and found, travelling to unknown lands, grappling with foreign languages (which they speak fluently). From a geographical rather than existential point of view,...  

21/08/2009 | Festivals | Europe

Locarno: Marrazzo dreams a musical world

“Experimentation is the true key to freedom, because it produces new things,” says director Pasquale Marrazzo, whose fourth feature, Sogno il Mondo il Venerdì (“I Dream the World on Friday”), was...  

20/08/2009 | Festivals | Italy

Delbono’s videophone Fear debuts in Locarno

Who’s afraid of Pippo Delbono? The latest film by the thespian-turned-filmmaker, La Paura (“Fear”, which follows Guerra, shot while on tour in Israel and Palestine, and the autobiographical...  

14/08/2009 | Festivals | France/Italy

Györik’s mysterious Valley a hit at Locarno

Eraldo Baldini’s “rural gothic” has arrived in Ticino: The Valley by Mihály Györik, presented at the Piazza Grande at Locarno (where, screening “at home” it nearly got a packed house of 8,000...  

12/08/2009 | Festivals | Italy/Switzerland/Hungary

Cinema rediscovered in Bologna

Acknowledged as one of the top international events dedicated to the memory of early cinema, Il Cinema Ritrovato (“Cinema Rediscovered”) – held by the Bologna Cinematheque from June 27-July 4) –...  

29/06/2009 | Festivals | Italy

Sa raison d’être, una miniserie francese vince il Mix di Milano

In un curioso dialogo con l’altro grande festival italiano a tematica glbt (Da Sodoma a Hollywood, a Torino), anche il Mix di Milano ha avuto tra i pezzi forti del proprio programma una fiction tv...  

22/06/2009 | Festival | Italia

Political intrigues and conspiracies in Gruzsniczki’s The Other Irina

“He is a Don Quixote searching for his Dolcinea”, said director Andrei Gruzsniczki of Aurel, the main character of The Other Irina. Aurel works as a security guard in a large Bucharest department...  

23/03/2009 | Festivals | Romania

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