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

Sul Mare a new “debut” for D'Alatri

If no man is an island, as John Donne’s poem teaches us, men who live on islands have their particularity, be it an obscure impulse for extinction or a sunny disposition for solitude. Salvatore...  

29/03/2010 | Films | Italy

Happy Family: Salvatores’ latest a “coloured” comedy

Ezio (Fabio De Luigi) is approaching 40: he’s single, in good health and has money. Enough to allow him to be invent stories that others have to tell – as a screenwriter. The curtain literally...  

17/03/2010 | Films | Italy

Just Between Us

Croatian director Rajko Grlic, one of the most important representatives of the Prague film school, enjoyed critical and box office success in former Yugoslavia with films such as In the Jaws of...  

16/03/2010 | Films | Croatia

When Parents & Children collide

In Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You the young Scott (Lucas Haas) gets hit on the head and suddenly becomes a Republican, to the horror of his parents Alan Alda and Goldie Hawn, lifelong...  

23/02/2010 | Films | Italy

Avati’s Figlio Più Piccolo a cruel critique of Italian status quo

Pupi Avati’s “father trilogy” ends with Il Figlio Più Piccolo ("The Youngest Son"), he says: “La Cena per Farli Conoscere was about a deadbeat father who gets close to his three daughters through...  

09/02/2010 | Films | Italy

Sweet Valentine, un portrait aigre-doux et osé de l’amour inconditionnel

Dans son premier long métrage, Emma Luchini ne parvient pas à uniformiser ce film structuré en chapitres, dont le fil conducteur est un voyage en voiture, tout à fait dans le style des road movies...  

09/02/2010 | Films | France

Disco and Atomic War

One of the most interesting films to emerge from the Baltic area in years, Jaak Kilmi's Disco and Atomic War is billed as docu-fiction. Actually, it's more of a combination of archive footage,...  

01/02/2010 | Films | Estonia

Virzì’s “first beautiful thing” in tenth feature

It takes Bruno just one look at his terminally ill mother Anna to be flooded by memories. Back to 38 years ago, to the summer of 1971, when Anna was crowned "the most beautiful mother” of the most...  

12/01/2010 | Films | Italy

Rubini’s “bogeyman” a failed artist

As an actor, Sergio Rubini had the great fortune to play Federico Fellini’s alter ego in the autobiographical Intervista, (1987, it was Fellini’s second to last film and Rubini was 28) and...  

30/11/2009 | Films | Italy

Meno Male Che Ci Sei looks to span generations of women

Strong off of €16m at the 2007 box office from teen flick Ho Voglia di Te (see news), 39-year-old Madrid-born director Luis Prieto, adopted by Italy’s Cattleya studio, is back in the saddle with...  

24/11/2009 | Films | Italy

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