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

Figli delle stelle a comedy about unlikely revolutionaries

There is nothing more terribly démodé than the idea of kidnapping a politician. But tell that to the dazed and confused men of Figli delle stelle (“Children of the Stars”), the fourth feature film...  

18/10/2010 | Films | Italy

Passione in Naples

While Julia Roberts spouts stereotypes in Eat Pray Love, there’s an American – or rather, Italian-American – who delves behind the clichés, sometimes at the risk of succumbing to them, but more...  

13/10/2010 | Films | Italy

Avati’s Sconfinata Giovinezza

Rather than Una Sconfinata Giovinezza (“Endless Youth”), explains Pupi Avati in reference to the title of his latest film, “it should have been called An Endless Childhood”: “At this time in my...  

04/10/2010 | Films | Italy

Benvenuti al Sud, remake more “real” than original

“Why weren’t we the first to come up with the idea?” Like Claudio Bisio, many Italians have asked themselves this question on seeing Dany Boon’s film Welcome to the Sticks, the 2008 French box...  

27/09/2010 | Films | Italy

Sarah’s Key from Toronto to San Sebastian

Unveiled today in the Galas section at the Toronto Film Festival (September 9-19), Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s sixth feature Sarah’s Key will then cross the Atlantic and close the 58th San Sebastian...  

16/09/2010 | Films | France

Sharm el Sheikh a light-hearted comedy about a serious subject

There may be exotic beaches and bathing beauties (including Michela Quattrociocche, Elena Russo and Laura Torrisi), but don’t call it a cinepanettone [the bawdy Christmas blockbusters]. Sharm el...  

14/09/2010 | Films | Italy

Manchevski takes Mothers to Toronto

Mothers, the new film by celebrated Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski, will have its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto International Film Festival. Mothers...  

31/08/2010 | Films | North Macedonia/France/Bulgaria

Kling asks for audiences’ Trust

Johan Kling, who made his breakthrough in 2007 with Darling, has again chosen Stockholm and a jazzy score to set the mood for his new film, Trust Me, released last Friday on 38 Swedish screens by...  

23/08/2010 | Films | Sweden

Erdem creates enchantingly bizarre world in Kosmos

One of Turkey’s most versatile directors, Reha Erdem, returns after My Only Sunshine with an even more demanding but also more engaging and impressive story, Kosmos, about a hobo, thief and shaman...  

29/07/2010 | Films | Turkey/Bulgaria

In the Woods explores mystery of human beings

Unveiled in official competition at Poland’s Era New Horizons Festival, Angelos Frantzis’s Greek feature In the Woods is difficult to categorise, bordering on fiction, documentary and video art....  

29/07/2010 | Films | Greece

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