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Venice 2009 / Italy

14 articles available in total starting from 30/07/2009. Last article published on 11/09/2009.

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Spada returns to sidebar with doc on poet Antonia Pozzi

The last documentary of Venice Days screened today, to audiences who were stirred to discover the little-known Italian poet Antonia Pozzi, in Marina Spada’s Poetry, You See Me. The film opens with...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Italy

The Double Hour, a love story disguised as a thriller

The Double Hour, the fourth and final Italian film in competition at the Venice Film Festival, centres on the love affair between former policeman Guido (Filippo Timi) and Slovenian waitress Sonia...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition | Italy

Life trembles in Paola Sangiovanni’s stirring documentary

In Venice Days documentary Girls, Life is Trembling, Paola Sangiovanni smartly weaves together archive material and interviews with four women in an examination of the Italian feminist movement of...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Italy

Comencini and The White Space of waiting

The "white space" is a place where nothing happens, a land of waiting and time of throbbing anguish. This is what 40-year-old Maria (Margherita Buy), who has given birth to a premature baby girl,...  

10/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition | Italy

Ferrara finds echoes of “his” Bronx in Naples

Abel Ferrara’s Naples is the city glimpsed in the accounts of a few female prisoners in Pozzuoli jail, women who have experienced drug dealing, robberies, violence and the degradation of a life...  

10/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Out of competition | Italy

Documentary captures Vittorio De Sica’s indomitable spirit

One of Italy’s most renowned, esteemed and influential directors, Vittorio De Sica, is the subject of the latest documentary by Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri, Vittorio D.. As expected, the film...  

10/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Italy

Placido and The Big Dream of ‘68

After years working in TV drama, Pietro Valsecchi and Camilla Nesbitt return to cinema with Michele Placido, having previously produced his debut film Pummarò and the successive Ordinary Hero. The...  

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

Jalongo’s documentary furthers polemics against Italian media

Whatever happened to Italian cinema is the subject of Venice Days documentary What Do You Know About Me, by Valerio Jalongo, whose post-screening Q&A was packed. Jalongo looks at the industry’s...  

07/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Italy

Solitude has no (skin) colour in Good Morning Aman

Forty-five-year-old Rome-born Teodoro and 18-year-old Somali-born Aman seem to have two very different journeys and destinies. Separated by skin colour, age and life experiences, they nonetheless...  

06/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Italy

I Am Love, melodrama tailor-made for Swinton

With I Am Love, a slick melodrama told from a female perspective, Luca Guadagnino brings to fruition a project he had been working on for many years with his friend Tilda Swinton. The film is...  

06/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Horizons/Italy

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