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20 articles available in total starting from 14/10/2006. Last article published on 24/10/2007.

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Gangs of England

There was a long applause after the press screening and a standing ovation following the public screening of This Is England by UK director Shane Meadows. The secrets to the successful of the...  

19/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Tornatore and his "unknown woman", between thriller and mystery

Six years after Malèna, Oscar-winning Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore returns to the screen in the Première section of the RomeFilmFest with his new film, The Unknown ( La sconosciuta), a...  

18/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

The Legacy: A journey towards destiny

An old man and his grandson travel with an empty coffin across Georgia. Gela Babluani, a 28 year-old Georgian living in Paris (where he founded the Les Films de la Strada production company)...  

18/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Mon Colonel reopens Algerian wounds

The way to reopening the debate in France on Algeria’s war of independence was paved last year at Cannes by Michael Haneke’s Hidden. The topic was touched upon again today at the RomeFilmFest...  

17/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

The Stone Council: Bellucci at the edges of reality

Monica Bellucci, the most international of today’s Italian movie stars, presented her second competition film at the RomeFilmFest . After her all-Italian comic turn in Paolo Virzì’s N.: Napoleon &...  

17/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

L’aria salata: A praiseworthy debut

When the years pass in prison, they traverse several generations, acting like the sea air, which covers everything it touches with a strange layer of rust. And they suffocate vitality. This is the...  

17/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Alatriste: Heroes and intrigue at the Spanish court

To understand what kind of film Augustin Diaz Yanes’ Alatriste is, in competition at the RomeFilmFest, one needs to know that it is based on a successful novel by Spanish author Arturo Perez...  

16/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

N, Napoleon and Virzì

"A bit comedy, a bit black fairy tale, a 19th apologue and a story of a generational clash" is how director Paolo Virzì describes his film N.: Napoleon & Me , the first Italian film of the...  

14/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Iosseliani and the disease of power

From the RomeFilmFest comes a parable on the thirst for power, that disease with which we all must make amends, a temptation from which it is difficult to escape. But not impossible. Master...  

14/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

Guédiguian in search of identity

Armenia, by one of France’s most prolific directors, Robert Guédiguian, screened at the RomeFilmFest one day after the Lower Chamber of the French Parliament approved a law making it illegal to...  

14/10/2006 | RomeFilmFest | Competition

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