Klapisch, Del Punta, Cascella hit screens
Three European titles hit Italian screens today. First up is Cédric Klapisch’s Paris [+see also:
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The other two films are Italian. Claudio Del Punta’s Haïti chérie [+see also:
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La canarina assassinata is the feature debut by Daniele Cascella, and is produced by Movie Factory (who also distributes, on four screens in four cities). Real life is no less false than a life invented in a film is the premise of a work that shares ambitions and meta-cinematic content with several recent, though not very successful, precursors (Louis Nero’s La Rabbia and Claudio Serughetti’s Il nostro Messia).
(Translated from Italian)
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