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Article by: Erika Milani
Translation by: Melissa Borgnino
A film about Italy, its history and its failures, to ask ourselves what the dead are good for, and to find out what the living are good for. Davide Ferrario talks about Italy and its last hundred years, by means of four tales linked by the same thread: defeat.
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Article by: Marco De Bartolomeo
Translation by: Federica Franzosi
In Brazil the start of the FIFA world cup is just minutes away and halfway around the world, in Beirut, people are getting ready for the big event. Fans are in a frenzy, flags are fluttering on the balconies and the voice of the Arabian commentator marks the passing of time.
Everything is ready when a strange interference jams the signal. Football fans runt to the roves to take the antennas down and then reassemble them, rotating, inclining, trying to get them in the right direction but to no avail. TV frequencies seem to be shielded.
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Article by: Giuseppe Battaglia
Translation by: Federica Franzosi
Even though this film falls within the After Hours section and the internet treats it as if it was a scary movie, The Cured has very little in common with the horror genre. Some might even say that classifying it as a horror film would be as hard as making the Mole Antonelliana wear Melissa Satta’s sheath dress, because many details of the movie lie outside of the tradition of the genre and a lot of attention was dedicated to aspects that do not fall in the style. Sure, the zombie epidemic is there, but it is also totally under control. Continua la lettura di “The Cured” by David Freyne
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Article by: Gianluca Tana
Translation by: Laura Cocco
In this thirthy-fifth edition of Torino Film Festival, there are many deserving and interesting movies, and we don’t have to forget the renovated movie Notte Italiana. This movie was released in 1987, thirty years ago, and it highlights two essential beginnings: on the one hand, the production was directed by Nanni Moretti (it was the first movie made by Sacher Film). On the other hand, the dear departed Carlo Mazzacurati, as the director. Mazzacurati worked as an active director from the 80s to 2014, when he died. He is well-known to have described the troubled situation in the Italian North-East areas close to the new millennium. In this first movie, we can see him dealing with his territories, the foggy delta of the River Po and his swampy countryside.
Continua la lettura di “Notte italiana” by Carlo Mazzacurati
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Article by: Sofia Nadalini
Translation by: Melissa Borgnino
At the university of Paris 8, in the 93rd district of Seine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris, a competition called Eloquentia has been taking place for six years. As you can all guess, the tournament is about the art of public speaking: the contenders, students who live on the outskirts of Paris and come from all kinds of social backgrounds, are trained by various word professionals, such as lawyers, actors, drama teachers, and managers. After six weeks of hard work, the kids will have to demonstrate their abilities in front of a jury, that will then choose “the best public speaker of the 93rd”.
Continua la lettura di “À voix haute – Speak up!” by Stéphane De Freitas
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Article by: Chiara Gioffrè
Translation by: Valeria Alfieri
It’s the 1980’s: director Gaspard Bazin wants to create an old-fashioned movie, and he is looking for funding and actors. He turns to producer Jean Almereyda, who is not doing really well and struggles more and more to obtain the capital to fund his projects.
Continua la lettura di “GRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE D’UN PETIT COMMERCE DE CINÉMA” BY JEAN-LUC GODARD
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Article by: Gianluca Tana
Translation by: Melissa Borgnino
Zefrey Throwell and Josephine Decker are two artists from New York who decided to bare themselves in front of the camera. That’s how Flames was born, a documentary that narrates five years of their love story, from their first charming dates till after the end of their relationship, showing us their decision to keep seeing each other despite their breakup, in order to finish the project that engaged them for so long. An experience so profound that it lives on even now, after the film has been wrapped up. As affirmed by Throwell himself during the press conference, he still talks about the film with Decker because “When you share an experience so intense and profound with another person, part of that person stays in you, and part of you stays in that person”.
Continua la lettura di “Flames” by Zefrey Throwell and Josephine Decker
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Article by: Dario Grande
Translation by: Melissa Borgnino
1920s. Next to a lake, in the middle of nowhere in the Irish countryside, stands an old crumbling mansion, where twins Rachel and Edward live. The lives of the twins, entangled in a morbid relationship, are constantly plagued by a curse that has been lingering over their family for generations. Every night, ominous forces that inhabit the bottom of the lake invade their house, and compel them to meticulously follow some rules: always be in bed by midnight, never let strangers inside the house, and never try to escape in order not to jeopardize the other sibling’s life.
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Article by: Vanessa Mangiavacca
Translation by: Emanuela Ismail
Guest director of the 33rd edition and inspiration for the poster of the following edition (which image is a remake of a 1986 Absolute beginners’ scene), by the time, Julien Temple has become a regular guest at Torino Film Festival. Her name also appears in the ongoing edition within the section Festa Mobile: main character of her last film is Graham McPerson, best known as Suggs, The Madness’ frontman and one of the most important exponents of the 70’s and 80’s British ska scene.
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Article by: Martina Bonfiglio
Translation by: Valeria Alfieri
En attendant les barbares is a simple, minimalistic movie that succeeds to deeply inspect the characters’ fears; fears that mirror those of most people in the modern world. It follows a fairy-tale journey, in which the present time is mixed with an indefinite time where wizards, knights and ghosts live.
The movie was created during a workshop involving a group of actor held by the director in Tolouse; this sense of genuine craftsmanship, of experimentation, is highlighted by the backstage photos shown at the beginning of the movie.
Continua la lettura di “EN ATTENDANT LES BARBARES” by EUGÈNE GREEN
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Article by: Lucia Grosso
Translation by: Cristina Di Bona
In Lisbon, struggling with the economic crisis, the workers of an elevator factory have to fight the closing of the plant. They planned its occupation and ended up running a factory without managers, suddenly vanished. A period of inactivity begins. All workers wait for the end of their work shift, standing in front of machines off.
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Article by: Andrea Venuti
Translation by: Federica Franzosi
Pianetti di Sovana, in Maremma, Tuscany. The two wins Lorello and Brunello Biondi manage the family’s farm, and their days are marked by hard work. Farming life is a far cry from the urban reality, in which work shifts and holidays do not exist. It is a life of sacrifice, threatened by the menacing global market.
Continua la lettura di “LORELLO E BRUNELLO” by Jacopo Quadri
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Article by: Ottavia Isaia
Translation by: Emanuela Ismail
Clio Barnard writes and directs Dark River, a movie about past traumas never expelled that haunt Alice (Ruth Wilson) when she returns to the family farm after fifteen years of absence and the recent lost of her father, Richard. To (not) welcome her there is her brother Joe (Mark Stanley), who makes immediately clear he has not forgiven her for not coming back home earlier despite the constant requests of the head of the family; both of them, for different reasons, aim to obtain the rent of the land, but their projects for the farm seem incompatible.
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Article by: Elio Sacchi
Translation by: Emanuela Ismail
Chronicles of the Time of Troubles portrays the confusing and troubled period of the transition from URSS to Russia, from 1989 to 1991. The perestrojka is considered a tragic and complex time, made of deep changes that rock the society. The documentary of the Russian director Vladymir Eysner, investigates the social developments that made this era so difficult, without defining the tragic events that led to the fall of the Berlin’s Wall and the dissolution of URSS.
Continua la lettura di “Chronicles of the Time of Troubles” by Vladymir Eysner
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Article by: Gianmarco Perrone
Translation by: Cristina Di Bona
Kiss and Cry, the second work of Chloé Mahieu and Lila Pinell balances reality and fiction. It is a fiction film, the evolution of one of their previous projects: the documentary Boucle piqué, a 2012 medium- length film about a group of ice skaters and their coach, during a summer stage.
Continua la lettura di “Kiss and Cry” by Chloé Mahieu and Lila Pinell
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Article by: Dario Grande
Translation by: Valeria Alfieri
Shown together in the “TFFdoc” section of the festival, For Now and Le rêve de Nikolay are two documentaries that – even though they are very different – share the theme of personal dreams and their way of coming true.
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Article by: Vanessa Mangiavacca
Translation by: Federica Franzosi
I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop is the first feature film by Angie Obeid, a young director from Lebanon. It is a deep piece of work on many levels: the movie camera moves indiscreetly inside the director’s own apartment (and it stays there during the whole movie), while she herself tells the audience Nuhad’s story. Nuhad lives in Damascus with her husband and their two sons (one of which is Angie’s friend). The sudden start of a war forces the woman to re-evaluate her life and to decide to leave.
Continua la lettura di “I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop” by Angie Obeid
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Article by: Fabio Ferrari
Translation by: Laura Cocco
An Indian girl has been found dead in the reserve of Wind River, in Wyoming. She is discovered by Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), a skilled hunter who carries a deep grief. The case is assigned to Jane Banner (Elisabeth Olsen), young and inexperienced FBI agent. The two decide to join forces in this investigation, that, from the start, will be difficult and will lead to shocking revelations.
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Article by: Chiara Gioffrè
Translation by: Melissa Borgnino
They is (or better yet are, since they speak of themselves in the plural form) J, a fourteen-year-old who is not yet sure about their gender identity and who chose to stop, through medical procedures, their body’s development, in order to take some time before deciding if they should keep on living in a male body or start a transition process.
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Article by: Lucia Grosso
Translation by: Melissa Borgnino
Va, Toto! follows the tale of Madeleine and her little pet boar; of Vincent and his relationship with monkeys, during his trip to India; and of Joseph who, by night, dreams relentlessly while attached to a breathing machine and, by day, takes care of about twenty cats. All these stories are narrated by Pierre, who wants to study the relationship between men and animals by making a film. Continua la lettura di “VA, TOTO!” BY PIERRE CRETON
