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Venice 2008 - Out of competition - Near the Coliseum is... Monicelli
2008-09-01 05:00:08After Manoel de Oliveira (besides opening short Do Visìvel ao Invìsivel, in the last few days the equally short - and previously unreleased (although made 50 years ago) - Romance de Vila do Conde and O viral e a santa morta have screened), the Venice Film Festival celebrates the creative vitality of another European film master: Mario Monicelli. Born in 1915 and with more than 60 films...
Venice 2008 - Out of competition/France - Claire Denis' special affect
2008-09-01 05:00:08Claire Denis - a regular at the Venice Film Festival since Good Work and Friday Night - returns to the Lido. “My association with Venice has been very fortunate”, explained the French director, who four years after The Intruder (former Golden Lion contender), is presenting her latest work, 35 rhums, out of competition. The alcoholic drinks referred to in the title are those...
Venice 2008 - Competition/Italy - Bechis explores land of dispossessed in Birdwatchers
2008-09-02 05:00:20"We just want a chance to survive". Eliane Juca da Silva didn't hold back the tears before journalists who had just applauded Marco Bechis's film Birdwatchers. Eliane stars in the film and belongs to the Guarani Kaiowà people from Mato Grosso do Sul, in central-western Brazil. For Eliane the international showcase of the Venice Film Festival represents the greatest opportunity to draw...
Venice 2008 - Competition - Venice's got Milk
2008-09-02 05:00:20Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu's Milk, the second part in a proposed trilogy, is the Turkish feature in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year. The co-production between Turkey, France and Germany explores the changing relationship between a mother and son who live in rural Anatolia, a region on the Aegean coast that is also undergoing changes. Milk again centres on the...
Venice 2008 - Competition - Kafkaesque atmosphere in Schroeter's That Night
2008-09-03 05:00:09A first-time contender for the Golden Lion (although a regular at international festivals and former award-winner at the Berlinale with Palermo or Wolfsburg), Germany's Werner Schroeter presents at Venice his latest work, That Night, confirming his reputation as a controversial director who is not to everyone's taste. As we await the audience's verdict (the official screening is this evening),...
Venice 2008 - Competition/Ethiopia-Germany-France - Haile Gerima returns to the past to look to the future
2008-09-03 05:00:09African film has for some time been all but excluded from selections and above all from prize lists at most international festivals. Selected in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Haile Gerima's Teza could represent a reversal of this tendency. In Europe, there are many who believe in the work of African filmmakers. Indeed, German company Pandora and a minority investment from...
Venice 2008 - Out of competition/France - Long live Varda
2008-09-04 05:00:07“A little old woman - a wanderer and a chatterbox - who talks about her life”. This is how Agnès Varda introduces herself in the first scene of her documentary The Beaches of Agnès, which offers an intimate portrait of the director (one of the main names associated with the New Wave), but is much more than a simple cinematic autobiography. The beaches of the title “are...
Venice 2008 - Competition/Algeria-France - Geopolitics according to Tariq Teguia in Inland
2008-09-05 05:00:09Malek is a surveyor; he measures places and borders, calculates distances and symbolically marks out the geopolitical lines of territories. In Inland - whose original title, Gabbla, means hinterland, inland or distance in Arabic dialect - 40-year-old Algerian director Tariq Teguia continues to explore the map drawn in his debut feature Rome Rather Than You, which screened at the 2006 Venice...
Venice 2008 - Competition/Italy - Corsicato turns pop in Il seme della discordia
2008-09-07 05:00:06Seven years after the commercial failure of Chimera, Pappi Corsicato returns to the big screen with Il seme della discordia (“The Seed of Discord”), the last Italian title presented in competition on the Lido. The film was greeted with laughter and jeers at the initial press screening. Based on Heinrich von Kleist's short story “The Marquise of O” (also adapted...
Festivals - Italy - Bellucci opens Rome again, Vicari in competition
2008-09-11 05:00:05Maria Sole Tognazzi's L'uomo che ama, starring Monica Bellucci, Pierfrancesco Favino, Ksenia Rappoport and Piera Degli Esposti, will open the third edition of the Rome International Film Festival (October 22-31). The closing night film, following the awards ceremony, will be L'ultimo Pulcinella, featuring Massimo Ranieri, which Maurizio Scaparro adapted from his renowned play, inspired...
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