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840 articles available in total starting from 31/05/2002. Last article published on 27/12/2018.

Zalone opts for political incorrectness in Che bella giornata

Strong off the success his debut feature Cado dalle nubi, which garnered over €14m at the box office, comedian Checco Zalone (real name Luca Medici) returns to cinemas with the first Italian title...  

07/01/2011 | Films | Italy

The Fatherless don’t get along

After premiering in the Panorama section of the Berlinale, the feature debut of Austrian writer-director Marie Kreutz, The Fatherless, swept the Diagonale festival, where it won Best Film, Best...  

04/01/2011 | Films | Austria

Manchevski’s Mothers ask what is truth?

How does information become the truth? How do personal history, imagination, opinion and perspective shape the perception of reality? These are the main questions the Macedonian director Milcho...  

31/12/2010 | Films | North Macedonia/France/Bulgaria

Silvio Muccino explores Another World

Twenty-eight year-old Andrea (Silvio Muccino) has a wealthy and aloof mother (Greta Scacchi) who finances his aimless life; a girlfriend, Livia (Isabella Ragonese), with eating disorders; and a...  

20/12/2010 | Films | Italy

Classical pathos moves Novković’s White White World

Oleg Novković’s White White World is a classical Greek tragedy packed into a Balkan film. It is precisely this classical quality that provides the enormous strength that juries in Locarno, Cottbus...  

03/12/2010 | Films | Serbia/Germany/Sweden

Lucini's Donna a polished romantic comedy

Who is La donna della mia vita (“The Woman of My Dreams”) of the title of the new film by Luca Lucini? From the poster, one would say Valentina Lodovini (recently seen in Benvenuti al Sud),...  

22/11/2010 | Films | Italy

Harry Potter: The end begins

Despite its title, whose esoteric meaning is clear as a bell to the readers of J.K. Rowling, the new Harry Potter film takes about 120 of its 146 minutes to reveal to audiences what the deathly...  

16/11/2010 | Films | UK/USA

From the Waist Down a prison Cyrano tale

As in a modern version of Cyrano de Bergerac, Gianfrancesco Lazotti’s From the Waist Down begins with a letter written per interposta persona: Rosalba (Nicoletta Romanoff) can’t find the right...  

15/11/2010 | Films | Italy

The other side of gangster film In the Shadows

Thomas Arslan’s In the Shadows is a subtle heist caper which relies on a dramatic atmosphere much more than on dynamic action scenes. Trojan (Misel Maticevic) has just gotten out of jail and...  

04/11/2010 | Films | Germany

Brizzi’s Maschi Contro Femmine looks at battle of sexes

“In my opinion, a man and a woman are the two people least suited to marry each other”: this quotation from Massimo Troisi opens Maschi Contro Femmine (“Men Versus Women”), the new film by Fausto...  

22/10/2010 | Films | Italy

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