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2280 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 05/06/2025.

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

My Son: Love and obsession

Having passed the halfway point of the 54th San Sebastian Film Festival, we are in need of a profound, radical shake-up. Thus comes My Son (Mon fils à moi) by Martial Fougeron, another film on...  

29/09/2006 | San Sebastián 2006 | Competition

Children: Red passion in black & white

This year is proving to be the year of extravagance at the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival. Overwhelmed by the imposing presence of the recent Venice festival and upcoming Rome Film...  

26/09/2006 | San Sebastián 2006 | Competition

Festival kicks off with young León

The official competition of the 54th San Sebastian Film Festival has got off to a patriotic start. This year, programmers decided to truly shakes things up, presenting the 100% Spanish comedy Vete...  

25/09/2006 | San Sebastián 2006 | Competition

America as a river of milk

Emanuele Crialese prefers legend to realism "because it leaves more room for the imagination". Yet the images of the humiliating intelligence tests to which US immigration officials subject...  

08/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

Private Property: Family rivalries

After experimenting with a comic tone in his second feature film, Ça rend heureux, Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse (read the interview) is back to the same subjects that fed his directorial...  

07/09/2006 | Venice 2006 | Competition

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