05/06/2007

“Just ten days after the end of the Cannes Film Festival, we are able to bring to Rome the [festival’s] most important films. And, thanks to a collaboration with BIM, we have all the top award winners in our program,” said Georgette Ranucci, artistic director of Le vie del cinema da Cannes a Roma (referred to locally as “Cannes in Rome”), at the press conference for the 12th edition of the event, which offers a week of Cannes titles in Rome in their original language and subtitled (a rarity in Italy).

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From June 7-13, four cinemas in Rome (Alcazar, Nuovo Sacher, Roma and Quattro Fontane) will screen a number of the festival’s prize winners, including: 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Oleg Mutu
film profile] by Romania’s Cristian Mungiu (Palme d’Or); Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (60th Anniversary Prize), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Julian Schnabel (Best Director), Persepolis [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Marc-Antoine Robert
interview: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Pa…
film profile] by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (Jury Prize) and The Edge of Heaven [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fatih Akin
interview: Klaus Maeck
film profile] by Fatih Akin (Best Screenplay).

(Translated from Italian)