Restless and entertaining, #PovereCreature, dragging the viewer into a universe (or better, many universes) where the meat, the body, it lends itself to creation, come fosse una tela bianca Lanthimos continua il suo viaggio ai confini dell’assurdo, investigating with a distorted gaze, elegantly aestheticized by the use of the fish-eye lens (already a fetish for the director in The Favourite). Poor Creatures touches on many themes - suicide, the creation, loneliness, identity, domestic violence, the man-woman relationship… sex. And if we also recognize the director's touch, the real “brush” that colors, sets and silhouettes suggest us
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#VENICE80 – 30/8 -9/9/2023 SPECIAL #14: (DAY 7) the pills of Maria Vittoria Battaglia
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Dalla Francia due piccoli film VENEZIA 80 Fuori Concorso VIVANTS di ALIX DELAPORTE con Alice Isaaz, Roschdy Zem, Vincent Elbaz, Pascale Arbillot, Pierre Lottin, Jean-Charles Clichet / France, Belgium / 86’ SINOSSI Gabrielle è appena entrata a far parte di un prestigioso network di informazione. In the absence of adequate training, he must prove that he is up to it and find his place within a group of highly experienced special envoys.
#VENICE80 – 30/8 -9/9/2023 SPECIAL #10: (DAY 5) the pills of Maria Vittoria Battaglia
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Il primo lungometraggio di Ariane Louis-Seize si presenta come un film inaspettatamente sorprendente GdA SELEZIONE UFFICIALE Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, di Ariane Louis-Seize SINOSSI Sasha è una giovane vampira con un problema molto serio: she has a sensitivity that prevents her from killing! When parents, exasperated by the situation, they cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in danger. Luckily for her, she meets Paul, a
#VENICE80 – 30/8 -9/9/2023 SPECIAL #8: (DAY 4) Maria Vittoria Battaglia's pills
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Il regista Tuna ci propone il ritratto di un percorso di crescita e di scoperta della propria identità ORIZZONTI YURT (DORMITORY) RECENSIONE di NEHIR TUNA con Doğa Karakaş, Can Bartu Arslan, Ozan Celik, Tansu Bicer, Didem Ellialtı, Orhan Guner, Sparkle Water / Turkey, Germany, France / 116’ Per Maria Vittoria Battaglia al film va la seguente valutazione 3,5\5 SYNOPSIS 1997, tensions between religious and secular Turks are rising. The
#VENICE80 – 30/8 -9/9/2023 SPECIAL #6: (DAY 2) Maria Vittoria Battaglia's pills
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Director Claudio Casale presents an enigmatic work, virtuosistica BIENNALE COLLEGE The Year of the Egg, di Claudio Casale SINOSSI Adriano e Gemma sono una giovane coppia in attesa del primo figlio e hanno deciso di farlo nascere lontano da un mondo in cui l’attenzione allo spirito è oscurata dal lavoro, by social constraints and profit. They then turned to the Egg community: a spiritual group that, under the guidance
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #20: (DAY 11) The Awards with the Golden Lion to Laura Forses
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) The Exhibition assigns a questionable "political" Golden Lion to the documentary by the American Laura Poitras, giving a consolation prize to the mighty KHERS NIST (NO BEARS) in Jafar Panahi . Once again the interlocking games prevailed over the natural epilogue of the Exhibition. At the end the closing film FC by Francesco Carrozzini The Hanging Sun (REVIEW) The VENICE Jury 79, chaired by
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #19: THE HANGING SUN by FRANCESCO CARROZZINI
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Si chiude con un film flop la Mostra di Venezia La Mostra è stata ufficialmente chiusa con la proiezione del film FUORI CONCORSO FICTION THE HANGING SUN – FILM DI CHIUSURA di FRANCESCO CARROZZINI con Alessandro Borghi, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sam Spruell, Frederick Schmidt, Raphael Vicas, Peter Mullan, Charles Dance / Italy, UK / 93’ SINOSSI John è in fuga dopo aver tradito suo padre,
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #18: (DAY 10) THE LISTENER di Steve Buscemi
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) “The Listener” is a film to see and above all to listen to until the end to appreciate its message and deepest meaning: Nessuno si salva da solo GdA SELEZIONE UFFICIALE - FUORI CONCORSO THE LISTENER di Steve Buscemi – film di chiusura Stati Uniti, 2022, 96’, world premiere - Beth volunteers for a "helpline", in that small army of people who are
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #17: (DAY 10)
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) La Mostra da il meglio di se con Susanna Nicchiarelli e Jafar Panahi VENEZIA 79 Concorso CHIARA di SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI con Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106’ SINOSSI Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old, and one night he runs away from his father's house to join his friend Francesco. From that moment on, his life changed forever. You don't
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #16: (DAY 9) The pills from Maria Vittoria Battaglia's WEB
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) OUT OF COMPETITION - NON FICTION THE MATCHMAKER di BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI Italia / 90’ SINOSSI Tooba Gondal è una delle più famigerate jihadiste britanniche. Only twenty years old, left London to join the Islamic State and became known worldwide as “The ISIS Matchmaker”, accused of recruiting a dozen Western women to marry ISIS fighters. Between 2014 and the