#SmokeSauna is an ode to the female body, who frees himself from the darkness of the violence he has suffered to soar into the clear light, to the transparency of the water. If in the first shot we see the archetype of the feminine (the woman, as it has been portrayed for centuries, from the male point of view: rounded shapes with a newborn on her lap), Smoke Sauna deals with deconstructing this image of women, giving voice to songs and sighs, confessions and laments. Already in this first shot, indeed, the body is stripped: we are witnessing an examination of female reality. The Estonian director, Anna Hints, us
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#PovereCreature (Poor Things) di Yorgos Lanthimos
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
#The Piper di Erlingur Thoroddsen
Il regista islandese Erlingur Thoroddsen si ispira al racconto del Pifferaio di Hamelin nel suo nuovo horror #The Piper che stordisce senza stregare La giovane flautista Melanie (Charlotte Hope; interpreter Myranda is Il the throne of the spade) she is a single mother of a little girl who was born deaf, Zoe (Aoibhe O'Flanagan). Zoe can hear thanks to a hearing device that is, But, often defective. Mom teaches daughter how to listen to vibrations, without the need for any device; he passes his index finger around the rim of a glass and Zoe responds. When Melanie decides to exhume a
#IlMondoDietrodiTe on Sam Esmail su NETFLIX
Esmail resumes the search topic, already covered in the successful series Mr. Robot da lui diretta Julia Roberts e Ethan Hawke sono i protagonisti del thriller dai toni apocalittici, #IlMondoDietrodiTe. Netflix signs this product which, however cinematic, enjoys a series of references to the platform in question, making home viewing more exciting and more functional for narrative purposes. A typical American family, of whites, rent a house surrounded by nature, away from noisy New York. Their first day at the seaside is interrupted by an incredible event. The sizes, the volumes,
#Napoleon di Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott with #Napoleon paints the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, following historical events with a temporal linearity, interrotta solamente dalle passioni dell’imperatore Per quanto la narrazione possa apparire limpida, we find different interpretations, layered and innovative. By self-citing and transforming the quote in the name of future generations, Ridley Scott compares the figure of the emperor with two little girls playing with wooden swords, while Napoleon writes love letters to his late ex-wife, Josephine. How can you not think of the director's first film, The duelists? Also set in Napoleonic France; the end of
Mimì – The prince of darkness at #33NOIRFF
Brando De Sica talks about "his" Naples, la sua città di “vampiri” Mimì – Il principe delle tenebre,which will be presented to 33 BLACK FF, a preview of Brando De Sica's first work transports the viewer into a magical realism that also feeds on expressionist references but where the horror impulse flows into exaggerated bloody violence. Mimì is a Neapolitan pizza chef with an angelic face and deformed feet. His physical defect makes him a constant target of the Camorra, who usually frequent the pizzeria where he works at night, after
#Banksy and the girl from the #Bataclan, doc by Edoardo Anselmi on #RAI5
Ci si domanda anche oggi se #Banksy è un convinto assertore delle ingiustizie del sistema o piuttosto le cavalca sfruttando un onda emotiva Il documentario Banksy e la ragazza del Bataclan, directed by Edoardo Anselmi, initially embraces an explanatory Netflix style to illustrate the context of the street art, and then takes on thriller tones following the white van that kidnapped Banksy's "The Sad Girl".. Heist artists have always enjoyed a certain allure on screen (David Niven ne The Pink Panther, Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, Arsenio
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #20: (DAY 9) : FELA, MY LIVING GOD by Daniele Vicari – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) From the FREE STYLE ARTS section: FELA, MY LIVING GOD by Daniele Vicari, Italy, 2023, 90’ | Doc | an eye attentive to the contemporary, creating interesting historical returns that trigger reflections, a ritmo dell’afrobeat Un bel ritmo che sposa bene il contenuto di questo documentario. Starting from the passion for Fela Kuti's music, Nigerian singer and activist, Vicari takes us to the 80s, following
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #19: (DAY 9) COTTONTAIL by Patrick Dickinson – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) From the GRAND PUBLIC section the film COTTONTAIL by Patrick Dickinson, UK, Japan, 2023, 94’ | First work | which tells of mourning, tra paesaggi inglesi e mercati giapponesi Con tenerezza e delicatezza, director Patrick Dickinson talks about mourning, between English landscapes and Japanese markets. After the death of his wife Akiko, Kenzaburo embarks on a journey to spread his ashes in England, in
#ROMAFF18 – 18- 28/10/2023 SPECIAL #17: (DAY 8) HUNDRED SUNDAYS by Antonio Albanese – VALENTINA's review
(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli - The photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema peri Roma) From the GRAND PUBLIC section: HUNDRED SUNDAYS by Antonio Albanese, Italy, 2022, 94’ che sorprende tutti con questo film dai toni grigi Il termine latino insomnia si riferisce non alla mancanza di sonno ma alla mancanza di sogni. Antonio Riva, the protagonist of this contemporary social drama, he set aside his life savings for a particular purpose: organize your daughter's wedding. Divorced,