Archivi categoria: Film (English)

“78 – VAI PIANO MA VINCI” by ALICE FILIPPI

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

Article by: Erika Milani

Translation by: Emanuela Ismail

78 – Vai piano ma vinci is the true story of Pier Felice Filippi, who was kidnapped for ransom by the ‘Ndrangheta when he was 23. It was in 1978, and seventy-eight were the days of his captivity. His daughter decided to share with us his story through a passionate docu-fiction.

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“The Death of Stalin” by Armando Iannucci

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Article by: Elio Sacchi

Translation by: Cristina Di Bona

Armando Iannucci became famous all over the world for his political satires. It is not surprising that in his desecrating comedy about the death of Stalin, Steve Buscemi plays the role of Nikita Chruščёv. This film has an internationally renowned cast, including actors such as Simon Russel Beale, Jason Isaac and Micheal Palin. The international cast is an added value to the Scottish’s director work. Continua la lettura di “The Death of Stalin” by Armando Iannucci

“Game of Death” by Sebastien Landry and Laurence Morais-Lagace

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Article by: Giuseppe Battaglia

Translation by: Martina Tormena

”Follow the rules and you won’t have trouble”: this seems to be the central idea of Game of Death, a movie that moves through different media and gives the audience lots of splatter all along.

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“A WINDOW ON THE WORLD” by AXEL OHMAN

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

Article by: Annagiulia Zoccarato

Translation by: Federica Franzosi

A Window on the Word: photography, in the end, is just that. It might be a personal shot or a photograph that has made history, but a photograph always shows and describes a small piece of world, that should not be necessarily true, but it still is a fragment of reality. And cinema is nothing but a series of moving photos, shots and snap-shots.

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“Napalm” by Claude Lanzmann

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Article by: Gianluca Tana

Translation by: Melissa Borgnino

Napalm is the tale of the short romantic encounter between Claude Lanzmann and a young North Korean nurse in 1958. At the time, Lanzmann was a member of the first Western delegation visiting the country after the three-year bloody war. Fate made him find himself alone with a beautiful woman of the Red Cross, with whom he fell in love. The two of them share a romantic afternoon, talking only through drawings, since the only word they can both understand is “napalm”. But the communist party doesn’t allow them to carry on their love affair and, once they find out about their relationship, they are forced to part ways. It’s a strong, intense, and romantic tale, that had the potential of becoming a fascinating story (and it did, on paper). Continua la lettura di “Napalm” by Claude Lanzmann

“THE REAGAN SHOW” by PACHO VELEZ E SIERRA PETTENGILL

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Article by: Lucia Grosso

Translation by: Valeria Alfieri

Entirely assembled from archive materials, The Reagan Show is a documentary that wants to showcase the president/actor during his “performance” in the White House, with all his contradictions and aspects. Not without irony, the movie makes us reflect on one of the most influential people during the Cold War, on his glory days and on the sudden halts experienced during his presidency.
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“RICCARDO VA ALL’INFERNO” by ROBERTA TORRE

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Article by: Maria Cagnazzo

Translation by: Melissa Borgnino

Riccardo va all’inferno (literally, “Richard goes to hell”) by Roberta Torre is a modern retelling of Richard III by William Shakespeare. An almost blinding white light invades the screen: a bare and excessively illuminated mental institution takes us into a weird adventure, full of music and of the characters’ inner conflicts.

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“Bamy” by JUN TANAKA

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Article by: Andrea Venuti

Translation by: Valeria Tutino

One day Fumiko (Hiromi Nakazato) casually meets,her ex schoolmate Ryota (Hironobu Yukinaga); driven by an irrepressible passion, the two decide to get married. Unluckily Ryouta sees some ghosts, but she doesn’t, and their relationship starts to deteriorate right away. Continua la lettura di “Bamy” by JUN TANAKA

“FINAL PORTRAIT” by STANLEY TUCCI

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Article by: Ottavia Isaia

Translation by: Federica Franzosi

After recently getting in Albert Einstein’s shoes for the anthological tv series “Genius”, Geoffrey Rush is now in those of Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in Final Portrait by Stanley Tucci. The film narrates the long eighteen days needed to paint James Lord’s portrait, after promising at first a quick work, which would need a couple of hours or an afternoon at most to complete. Armie Hammer plays the American writer, whereas French actresses Sylvie Testud and Clémence Poésy give life, respectively, to the artist’s wife Annette and Caroline, the prostitute who for four years had been his muse and lover.

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“ARPÓN” by TOMÁS ESPINOZA

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Article by: Gianmarco Perrone

Translation by: Cristina Di Bona

Arpón stages a conflict/cohesion. It is a drama, written and directed by Tomás Espinoza, a Venezuelan director. He takes part in the competition with his first feature film. The main characters are a man and a little girl. Even though they are antagonists, they have in common the desire for rebellion.

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“LAURI MÄNTYVAARAN TUUHEET RIPSET – THICK LASHES OF LAURI MÄNTYVAARAN ” by HANNALEENA HAURU

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Article by: Elio Sacchi

Translation by: Melissa Borgnino

The explosion of a bouquet, the kidnapping of a groom and a motocross escape on water are the scenes that introduce Finnish director Hannaleena Hauru’s first feature film, a grotesque and surreal coming of age story, with many cartoonish situations.

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“La madre, el hijo y la abuela” by Benjamín Brunet

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Article by: Annagiulia Zoccarato

Translation by: Federica Franzosi

The Onde section of the 35th Torino Film Festival includes among its titles a film that is as touching as it is delicate.  La madre, el hijo y la abuela is the first feature film by the Chilean director Benjamín Brunet, which was filmed in the city of Chaitén after the eruption of the volcano with the same name.  The movie is divided in three chapters, one for each character, and walks on the thin line between fiction and documentary.

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“What Happened to Monday” by Tommy Wirkola

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Article by: Chiara Gioffrè

Translation by: Emanuela Ismail

In a distopian future in which governments apply the strict policy of the only child, as a consequence of the overpopulation of the earth, seven twin sisters live their lives hidden. Each of them is allow to go out only once a week, the day that matches her name. They create a single identity in which everyone brings a part of her own being: Karen Settman. Everything flows quiet, until one of them, Monday, does not come back home.

The movie (edited by Raffaella de Laurentis) was initially displaying seven twin brothers as main characters. But Tommy Wirkola made amend the script in order to ask Noomi Rapace to perform the sisters.

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“MESSI AND MAUD” by MARLEEN JONKMAN

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Article by: Fabio Ferrari

Translation by: Cristina Di Bona

Messi and Maud wasn’t the first title of this film. When it has been presented at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), its title was La Holandesa. Subsequently, the agent decided to change it for the international distribution. For the director Marleen Jonkman, her movie will always be La Holandesa. Indeed, the plot revolves around a Dutch woman. Continua la lettura di “MESSI AND MAUD” by MARLEEN JONKMAN

“TITO E GLI ALIENI” by PAOLA RANDI

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Article by: Giorgia Bertino

Translation by: Valeria Tutino

“In space, every particle has a voice”: Paola Randi, director of Tito e gli alieni, chooses science fiction as a testing ground to start telling the story of an unusual family. Anita, impatient 16 year old, and her brother Tito, 7 year old and already a perfect ragamuffin who knows his own, after the death of both their parents, are entrusted to their uncle (an intense Valerio Mastandrea), ex professor and now scientist in crisis holed up in Nevada desert.

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“BARRAGE” by LAURA SCHROEDER

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Article by: Sofia Nadalini

Translation by: Laura Cocco

If you would like to watch the movie ”Barrage” without knowing that Lolita Chammah is Isabelle Huppert’s daughter, you would be surprised to see the resemblance between the two actresses. In the movie, as in the real life, they are mother and daughter.
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“BEAST” by MICHAEL PEARCE

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Article by: Lucia Grosso

Translation by: Valeria Alfieri

In the Island of Jersey, Great Britain, young Moll is torn between two ways of living: the one where she is trapped by her family societal norms, and the carefree, ruleless one of her lover Pascal. This situation is framed by a series of murders that have been following one another throughout the years and that will invade the already troubled life of the protagonist. Continua la lettura di “BEAST” by MICHAEL PEARCE

“LET THE SUMMER NEVER COME AGAIN” by ALEXANDRE KOBERDIZE

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Article by: Maria Cagnazzo

Translation by: Melissa Borgnino

A wind instrument played with uncertainty takes us into a blurred and just as uncertain world.

Let the Summer Never Come Again is entirely filmed with an old mobile phone, and the low quality of the images hits us with astounding force from the very beginning. The director is intentionally vague, forcing us to stay in the dark without clearly showing what is really going on. But we do not need to see well in order to understand the distress that pours out from every single sequence. This is the style of the author, which pervades the entire movie.

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“NELLA GOLENA DEI MORTI FELICI” by MARCO MORANDI

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Article by: Vanessa Mangiavacca

Translation by: Federica Franzosi

The theatre fills up with ears of wheat, but they are not those of the wheat fields in Cotignola (a town in Romagna, on the banks of the Senio river) that are seen on screen during the screening of the film, but they are being distributed to cinema-goers while they are waiting to get in. “It’s a documentary, but it’s not a documentary”. Ten minutes are enough for us to understand: the rural atmosphere will very soon change into a surreal and dreamlike vibe.

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“TESNOTA – CLOSENESS” by KANTEMIR BALAGOV

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

Article by: Ottavia Isaia

Translation by: Cristina Di Bona

In his first feature film, presented at the Turin Film Festival in the section Festa Mobile, Balagov tells, in some of its aspects, an autobiographical story, opened and closed by the signs that introduce the film. Nalchik, a little village in the Northern Caucasus, 1988: the life of a quiet Jewish family changes when the David (Veniamin Kats) and his girlfriend Lea are kidnapped. A high price is requested for ransom. This film wonders what a family would decide to sacrifice to save one of its members.

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