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2281 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 04/07/2025.

E la chiamano estate: Italy’s Shame creates ripples

Paolo Franchi’s film tells the story of a man who loves his wife madly, but finds making love to her impossible, with Jean-Marc Barr and Isabella Ferrari  

15/11/2012 | Rome 2012 | Competition

Il volto di un'altra, Pappi Corsicato’s funny horror film

Four years after Il seme della discordia, the Neapolitan director returns with a comedy on plastic surgery starring Laura Chiatti and Alessandro Preziosi, in competition in Rome  

13/11/2012 | Rome 2012 | Competition

Alì ha gli occhi azzurri: mixed race outskirts in a new millennium

Claudio Giovannesi tells the story of a second-generation immigrant adolescent living on the Roman coast, where Pasolini was killed in 1975  

12/11/2012 | Rome 2012 | Competition

Hand in Hand: magnetic attraction

After her staggering Declaration of War, Valérie Donzelli is back with an inventive, but unequal, "comedy" about romantic attachment  

12/11/2012 | Rome 2012 | Competition

The Winter of Our Discontent announces the end of the world in The Fifth Season

Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth have made a visually impressive film full of symbols that is vying for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival  

08/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Passion relies on McAdams-Rapace chemistry

Brian De Palma's colourful film noir entices the audience into a world of dark games and manipulation  

07/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Un giorno speciale, in between news story and disillusion

Based on the novel by the same day of actor, director and screenwriter Claudio Bigagli, Un giorno special by Francesca Comencini is the third Italian film in competition in Venice  

07/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Bellocchio’s Dormant Beauty reawakens consciences

Anticipating great controversy and igniting debates long before it has even been seen, Marco Bellocchio’s Dormant Beauty will be presented at the film festival before immediately hitting Italian...  

05/09/2012 | Venezia 2012 | Competition

War and Peace in the footsteps of Raúl Ruiz

Entwined destinies in war-torn 19th century Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s historical drama unveiled in the competition in Venice  

05/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

Something in the Air: Idealism as sincere sign of the times

"I live in fantasies and when reality comes knocking on my door, I don't open," says the protagonist of Something in the Air, the latest film by French writer-director Olivier Assayas  

04/09/2012 | Venice 2012 | Competition

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