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Gabriele Barcaro


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

Ciccone finds Neighbours among Rome, Paris and Helsinki

With a Finnish mother, Italian father and French grandmother, it’s difficult not to grow up cosmopolitan, something Anne Riitta Ciccone knows full well. Today she presented her latest film, Thy...  

31/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy/Finland

Amore Che Vai surrounded by contention

It was meant to be Fabrizio De André’s day, with two films dedicated to one of Italy’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, who passed away in 1999. But the double homage paid yesterday by the Rome...  

30/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

Northern Land: Botelho’s world of strong women

While British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has been saying for years that "cinema is too important to leave in the hands of storytellers,” Portuguese director João Botelho, in competition at the Rome...  

30/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Portugal

Zanussi offers light, Warm Heart

Zanussi laughs! One could paraphrase the slogan launched for Garbo in Ninotchka to sum up the new film by Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, With a Warm Heart, which screened in competition today...  

29/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Poland

Interview: Thomas Vinterberg • Director

"I buried Dogma in the US but my heart is in Europe"

28/10/2008

Easy Virtue a very British and always current remake

One of the paradoxes at the current Rome Film Festival is that the event’s most British film is directed by an Australian, Stephan Elliott (Priscilla: Queen of the Desert). His latest film, Easy...  

27/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | UK

Two period films from the UK

"It is an intimate confession, not typical for Hemingway. I was lucky to have been able to film it,” said British director John Irvin, who adapted The Garden of Eden – a Special Event at the Rome...  

27/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | UK

When Vinterberg comes home

When a Man Comes Home is a rather autobiographical title for the new film by Thomas Vinterberg, at the Rome International Film Festival in the Extra section. The director left America (“but only...  

26/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Denmark

Waiting for the Sun in a crowded hotel

In this rather Hollywood-starved edition of the Rome International Film Festival, mostly Italian stars have walked down the red carpet. Monica Bellucci (The Man Who Loves) and Christian De Sica...  

25/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

Brando De Sica follows grandfather’s footsteps

A “family festival” is what Rome International Film Festival President Gian Luigi Rondi had promised that and the Official Selection is making good. After Maria Sole Tognazzi’s opening film The...  

24/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

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