2023-10-21 08:05:20
Time.news – Today the Rome Film Festival for its fourth day it proposes as a key event the preview of the documentary film ‘Sugar – Sugar Fornaciari‘ by Valentina Zanella and Giangiacomo De Stefano for which the artist himself is expected on the red carpet at 7.30pm.
Moving on to the more purely cinematic aspect, in Rome Juliette Binoche arrives guest of the Festival to present ‘La Passion de Dodin Bouffant’ by Trn Anh Hu’ng, award for best director at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Another film awaited at the Festival is ‘Palazzina Laf’, debut at the directed by Michele Riondino: the film, starring Elio Germano among others, brings the first case of mobbing in Italy to the big screen.
The British director Jonathan Glazer will then be the protagonist of a masterclass with the public. Finally, the History of Cinema section will host the world premiere of ‘Callas, Paris, 1958’, introduced by director Tom Volf and ‘Profondo Argento’ by Giancarlo Rolandi and Steve Della Casa: on stage, alongside the two authors, Dario Argento and Luciano Tovoli.
The documentary film ‘Zucchero – Sugar Fornaciari’ by Valentina Zanella and Giangiacomo De Stefano, premiered in the Special Screenings section at 9.30 pm in the Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, tells the story of the extraordinary artist through his words and those of colleagues and friends such as Bono, Sting, Brian May, Paul Young, Andrea Bocelli, Salmo, Francesco Guccini, Francesco De Gregori, Roberto Baggio, Jack Savoretti, Don Was, Randy Jackson and Corrado Rustici.
A journey of the soul which, thanks to images coming from Zucchero’s private archives and from the “World Wild Tour”, his last and triumphant world tour, goes beyond the portrait of a successful musician reaching into the doubts and fragilities of ‘man. Zucchero will be on the red carpet of the party at 8.45pm.
Two titles from the Grand Public section scheduled in the Sala Petrassi. At 7pm the screening of ‘Palazzina Laf’, Michele Riondino’s directorial debut. ‘Laf’ is an acronym for ‘Cold rolling mill’: ‘Laf’ was the building in which, in the 1990s, the owners and managers of Ilva of Taranto decided to confine the employees who had opposed the “novation” of the contract, i.e. downgrading to workers.
They couldn’t fire them, so they threw them at ‘Laf’, doing nothing. At 9.15pm the public will be able to watch ‘Fingernails’ by Christos Nikou. In a disturbing future, Anna and her partner Ryan have realized every couple’s dream: they are in possession of a document that certifies their true love. But this is only the beginning of their research. For his English-language debut, the Greek director returns with a tragicomic and dystopian tale of human feelings starring Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed and Jeremy Allen White.
At 6.30 pm, for the Best of 2023 section, the Sala Sinopoli will host the screening of ‘La Passion de Dodin Bouffant’ by Trn Anh Hung, award for best director at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The Vietnamese-born French author of ‘The scent of green papaya’, ‘Cyclo’ and ‘Norwegian Wood’ translates the carnal and spiritual passion that cooking induces into a sinuous participation in the rituals of the couple Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel.
Cooking story and love story, also love for France, its culture, its countryside, its colors, its painters. Juliette Binoche will be on the red carpet at 5.45pm. At 5pm in the Sala Petrassi the public will be able to attend the masterclass featuring Jonathan Glazer: after having worked on the music videos of some extraordinary artists such as Massive Attack,
Radiohead and Jamiroquai, the director arrived on the big screen with titles such as ‘Birth – I am Sean’ and ‘Under the Skin’. Glazer is at the Rome Film Festival with his new film, ‘The Zone of Interest’, Special Jury Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The ‘Dialogues on the future of cinema’ will be held at the MAXXI for the second consecutive year , promoted by Fondazione Cinema per Roma and Anica, in collaboration with Cinecitta’ Spa and Siae.
The series of ‘Dialogues’ in seven episodes is scheduled between 19 and 26 October at 3.30 pm: a daily event, with the exception of Sunday, open to the public and the media, subject to availability, consolidating the streamlined and linear format experimented in 2022.
The title of today’s conference, Saturday 21 October, will be ‘Can an Italian cinema exist capable of conquering the Italian and European public? The point of view of the actresses and directors. The interventions will be by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Paola Cortellesi, Ginevra Elkann, Valeria Golino, Kasja Smutniak and Jasmine Trinca. Coordinated by Piera Detassis.
Until October 29th, the Casa del Cinema will host the extensive program of the History of Cinema section. Giuliano Montaldo, to whom the eighteenth edition of the Festival is dedicated, will be remembered in a free entry meeting which will be held at 3pm in the Cinecittà Room, organized in collaboration with the Montaldo family.
At 5pm in the Cinecittà Room, as part of the homage to Maria Callas, ‘Medea’ by Pier Paolo Pasolini will be presented. In the film, as in the opera, Maria Callas is Medea’s body and soul, she lives, deludes herself, suffers, even commits the most horrendous of murders. But she doesn’t sing, she speaks: this restoration will allow us to hear the true voice of Maria Callas, who acted in Italian for Pasolini.
The film was instead released with the voice of Rita Savagnone: the producer Franco Rossellini pressured the director to have Callas dubbed for the Italian circuit, fearing that her “foreign” inflection would be unpleasant to the public. Pasolini accepted but obtained that the soprano’s original voice be maintained for the foreign editions.
The tribute will close at 7.30 pm (Sala Cinecitta’) with an extraordinary event, the world premiere of ‘Callas, Paris, 1958‘ by Tom Volf. In December 1958 Maria Callas made her debut at the Paris Opera in a concert that was predicted to be legendary and turned out to be one of the musical events of the century. That evening was filmed and broadcast live throughout Europe.
The film, thanks to the discovery of the original films, takes the public into the heart of that event, proposing images restored in 4K HD and reworked in color by Composite Films, who worked with the original Callas Foundation reels based on color photos of the event. The sound was restored drawing directly from Maria Callas’ personal archives.
The sound mixing and mastering were entrusted to the expert hands of Miraval Studios. Finally, there are two screenings scheduled today, as part of the homage to Dario Argento, one of the most acclaimed Italian directors on a global level and an essential point of reference for filmmakers from all over the world.
Over the course of his career, he has been able to rework, in an absolutely original way, cinematographic genres rarely addressed by Italian cinema such as detective stories, thrillers and horror, creating masterpieces such as ‘Profondo rosso’ which will be screened on Saturday 21 October at 11.15pm in the Cinecittà Hall.
The film will be preceded at 9.30 pm by the documentary ‘Profondo Argento’ by Giancarlo Rolandi and Steve Della Casa, an unprecedented and profound portrait of the great director, full of photos and documents from his jealously guarded personal archive. Dario Argento and director of photography Luciano Tovoli will be present.
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