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Rome Film Festival


83 articles available in total starting from 23/10/2008. Last article published on 05/11/2010.

Il sangue dei vinti sparks controversy

The Rome Film Festival saw political controversy and a heated debate on revisionism with tonight’s screening (in the Special Screenings sidebar) of Michele Soavi’s Il sangue dei vinti (“The Blood...  

26/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

Germano gets violent in Vicari’s censored film

After Francesco Patierno’s Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca, the new star of Italian cinema, Elio Germano, once again plays a gambler, in The Past is a Foreign Land by Daniele Vicari (David di...  

26/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

When Vinterberg comes home

When a Man Comes Home is a rather autobiographical title for the new film by Thomas Vinterberg, at the Rome International Film Festival in the Extra section. The director left America (“but only...  

26/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Denmark

Loneliness, women's pride and gigolos in Client

A Pretty Woman in reverse, and without the fairy tale ending, Client is a bittersweet film by actress-director-screenwriter Josiane Balasko (Best Screenplay César in 1996 for French Twist), in...  

25/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | France

Waiting for the Sun in a crowded hotel

In this rather Hollywood-starved edition of the Rome International Film Festival, mostly Italian stars have walked down the red carpet. Monica Bellucci (The Man Who Loves) and Christian De Sica...  

25/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

Carlyle takes nostalgic Summer journey

Two men on a hilltop watch two young boys bike down the valley. “Want to bet I get down there before you?” says one man, sitting in a wheelchair and visibly ill. The words are barely out when he...  

25/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | UK

The Duchess makes local noble premiere

British period piece The Duchess by Saul Dibb (Bullet Boy) screened at the Rome International Film Festival today. Based on the bestselling biography by Amanda Foreman, it portrays the life and...  

25/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | UK

Brando De Sica follows grandfather’s footsteps

A “family festival” is what Rome International Film Festival President Gian Luigi Rondi had promised that and the Official Selection is making good. After Maria Sole Tognazzi’s opening film The...  

24/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | Italy

Panh looks at twilight years of colonialism in Indochina

Cambodian-born director Rithy Panh – who has lived in France for over 30 years – looks at the recent history of his country of origin in his latest feature, The Sea Wall, which screened this...  

24/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | France

Greenaway/Rembrandt’s “j’accuse”

"If Rembrandt were alive today, he would be a director,” said Peter Greenaway, who generously dispensed what he himself calls provocations rather than answers to audience questions at the Rome...  

24/10/2008 | Rome Film Festival | UK

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