Archivi categoria: Film (English)

“À voix haute – Speak up!” by Stéphane De Freitas

Versione inglese a cura del Master in Traduzione per il Cinema, la Televisione e l’Editoria Multimediale

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”.

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“GRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE D’UN PETIT COMMERCE DE CINÉMA” BY JEAN-LUC GODARD

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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.

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“Flames” by Zefrey Throwell and Josephine Decker

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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”.

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“The Lodgers” by Brian O’Malley

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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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“MY LIFE STORY” by JULIAN TEMPLE

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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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“EN ATTENDANT LES BARBARES” by EUGÈNE GREEN

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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.

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“A FÁBRICA DE NADA” by PEDRO PINHO

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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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“LORELLO E BRUNELLO” by Jacopo Quadri

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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.

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“Dark River” by Clio Barnard

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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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“Chronicles of the Time of Troubles” by Vladymir Eysner

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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.

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“Kiss and Cry” by Chloé Mahieu and Lila Pinell

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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.

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“For Now” by Herman Asselberghs and “Le rêve de Nikolay” by Maria Karaguiozova

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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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“Al massimo ribasso” by Riccardo Iacopino

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Article by: Erika Milani

Translation by: Valeria Tutino

Diego has a secret, that scars him like a curse and that he cannot accept: he works with the perpetrators, but lives among the victims. He steals trade secrets, through which mafia-companies win public contract tendering. It’s the understory of the plots between corruption and mob, but when Diego falls in love with Anita, he will have to make a choice.

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“I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop” by Angie Obeid

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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.

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“Wind River” by Taylor Sheridan

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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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“THEY” by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

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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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“VA, TOTO!” BY PIERRE CRETON

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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

“KINGS” by Deniz Gamze Ergüven

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Article by: Giorgia Bertino

Translation by: Federica Franzosi

Los Angeles, 1991. Every citizen’s television is on the same channel. On the screen, images from the 3rd of March of the same year are shaking. In that ill-fated day four policemen (Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind and Theodore Briseno) brutally assaulted African-American taxi driver Rodney King after a long chase. On TV, the images are followed by the court trial, concluding with the four of them being absolved of assault accusations. Thirteen days later, fifteen-year-old Latasha Williams, an African-American young woman, is shot by Soon JaDu, the owner of the shop where the girl had gone to get some orange juice. The woman had seen Latasha put the bottle in the back pocket of her jeans, and accused her of stealing; after a short physical altercation, the woman had grabbed the gun and shot the girl in the head. The young woman died immediately and the security camera captured the scene on film.

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“CASTING” BY NICOLAS WACKERBARTH

Versione inglese a cura del Master in Traduzione per il Cinema, la Televisione e l’Editoria Multimediale

Article by: Martina Bonfiglio

Translation by: Melissa Borgnino

A film that revolves around a choice, which manages to create anticipation in the audience up to the very end. We are faced with a realistic scenario, a casting for the new main actress in the remake of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Fassbinder. Unfortunately, six days before filming starts, the director can’t make a decision, leaving the entire crew in a state of uncertainty about the making of the project. The movie presents itself as a metaphor for today’s society, where we constantly depend on production and financial capacities.

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“SMETTO QUANDO VOGLIO – AD HONOREM” by SYDNEY SIBILIA

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Article by: Roberto Guida

Translation by: Valeria Tutino

“Sopox is the formula for nerve gas. For this he needed a chromatograph. This crazy man started to synthesize nerve gas!” exclaims Pietro Zinni in the last scenes of Masterclass, second chapter of the trilogy.

Ad honorem closes the saga directed and written by the young director from Campania, Sydney Sibilia who, with this third explosive chapter, shows us the last hardships of the gang of professors led by Tommaso Leo, who plays an ex researcher of neurobiology at “La Sapienza” University in Rome.

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