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Gabriele Barcaro


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

Sex obsession in Attenberg

Young Marina (Ariane Labed) doesn’t really like the human species: she prefers the chimpanzees in TV documentaries by Sir Richard Attenborough, misspelled as Attenberg in the title of Athina...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition/Greece

Nicolau’s philosophizing pirates

The ambitions, merits and limits of Portuguese director João Nicolau can be summed up by the words with which the director accompanies his debut feature, The Sword and the Rose: not just a simple...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Horizons/Portugal

Opposites attract in Angèle and Tony

Angèle (Clotilde Hesme) is foul-mouthed, bold to the point of insolence and aware of her own aggressive beauty, describing herself as a weapon of seduction! Recently released from prison after a...  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Critics’ Week/France

Lost Kisses, an Italian miracle

Which is the true miracle? A young girl who (perhaps) sees the Madonna, or a mother who makes amends for all the kisses she has never given? Both, suggests Roberta Torre, whose film Lost Kisses...  

05/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Controcampo Italiano

Servillo gives scene-stealing, subtle performance in Gorbaciof

Can you make a film about a character’s way of walking? Judging by Stefano Incerti’s new film Gorbaciof, shown out of competition at the Venice Mostra, the answer would appear to be yes: as long...  

03/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Out of Competition/Italy

Celestini’s “black sheep” in a world of mad people

The film that made only Pupi Avati cry: beyond the irony (the Bologna-born director reproached the Mostra selectors for having chosen it instead of his Una Sconfinata Giovinezza), La Pecora Nera...  

02/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Italy

Breillat presents a sophisticated Sleeping Beauty

Festival director Marco Müller said: “youth, in cinema, isn’t something that depends on birth records or the date on one’s passport”: it is no surprise, therefore, that Horizons, the most openly...  

02/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Horizons/France

Sagat: From hard porn to gay zombie

Two films in Competition, but no Best Actor Leopard. Not that anyone was counting on it (least of all himself), but the fact remains that the true star here at the Locarno International Film...  

13/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Germany

Une mère courage dans la steppe soviétique

Beyond the Steppes de la Belge Vanja d’Alcantara, qui s'inspire de l'histoire de la grand-mère de la réalisatrice et a été présenté en compétition à Locarno, laisse un goût amer au spectateur pour...  

13/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Compétition/Belgique-Pologne

Magimel, the predictable lawyer

Freshly out of the Faculty of Law, recent graduate Léo (played regrettably by a somewhat older Benoît Magimel) is intent on becoming a criminal lawyer. But when he is hired by a cabinet owned by...  

12/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Piazza Grande/France

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