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83 articles available in total starting from 23/10/2008. Last article published on 05/11/2010.

Srebrenica massacre related in Resolution 819

"Resolution 819 is reminiscent of Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers in the way it relates an experience as if it were reality.” The compliment from maestro Ennio Morricone sounds even more...  

29/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | France/Poland/Italy

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

Martyrs, frightening fare from France

The Extra section of the Rome Film Festival screened the French/Canadian co-production Martyrs yesterday evening as torrential rain and loud thunder haunted the Eternal City, creating the perfect...  

29/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | France

The courage of The Sicilian Girl

"Before fighting the mafia you have to examine your conscience and only after having defeated the mafia within yourself can you fight the mafia within your circle of friends. We and our bad...  

29/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

Joy of Singing looking to hit right note

Not surprisingly, the joy of singing is explored by the characters of Ilan Duran Cohen’s The Joy of Singing. In the film, undercover secret agents pose as students of a picturesque opera singing...  

28/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | France

Finnish Oscar hopeful screens for Roman teens

As part of the Rome Film Festival’s Alice in the City sidebar, the Finnish Oscar submission The Home of Dark Butterflies screened for a full house almost entirely comprised of Roman pupils. It is...  

28/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Finland

That Summer, a film of innocence and experience

The small, unpretentious Italian production That Summer is one of the two Italian films in the Alice in the Cities (Alice nella città) sidebar at the Rome Film Festival, currently underway. The...  

27/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

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

Impossible love story at heart of mafia in Galantuomini

Set in Lecce (Puglia, southern Italy) in the early 1990s, Galantuomini (“Honourable Men”) centres on an impossible love story between a female mafia boss and a judge. This latest film by Edoardo...  

27/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

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

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