The artistic director Antonio Monda: «The red thread are the stories of abuse and abuse and biographical films». Waiting for meetings with Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton. “L’arminuta” from Donatella Pietrantonio’s best seller, Carlo Verdone talks about himself in the Amazon series,
A Festival of pop, international and Roman cinema. This is how edition number 16 presents itself: from 14 to 24 October at the Auditorium and in other places in the city. If there is a red thread, it is the stories of abuse and abuse and the biographical film.
The heart remains the Close Encounters moderated by the artistic director Antonio Monda, including: Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Marco Bellocchio with the first images of Exterior Night on Aldo Moro, Alfonso Cuaron and his favorite Italian films, Luca Guadagnino, the writer Zadie Smith, Claudio Baglioni, Luciano Ligabue, Marco and Antonio Manetti who will show the first images of the much awaited Diabolik and Jessica Chastain, who will have the opening title in the role of a tv preacher in The Eyes of Tammy Faye at Michael Showalter.
The films on which you bet are: C’Mon C’Mon by Mike Mills with Joaquin Phoenix (an unexpected bond between uncle and nephew) e Passing by Rebecca Hall (two black women in New York managed to pass themselves off as white a hundred years ago). Monda adds the eight-hour documentary on Muhammad Ali: “He fought for civil rights and against Vietnam and had opaque sides, racist with people of color, he was a black man. But he gave up his boxer crown for his ideal ». In the official selection only one Italian film, The little arm by Giuseppe Bonito from Donatella Di Pietrantonio’s best seller. But there is a lot of Italy in other tanks, the TV series Life as a Carlo di Verdone on Amazon and At home everyone is fine by Gabriele Muccino for Sky; And we like assholes stood and watched by Pierfrancesco Diliberto with Fabio De Luigi, Ilenia Pastorelli, Pif and Valeria Solarino; The De Filippo brothers by Sergio Rubini; the documentaries on Caterina Caselli by Renato De Maria and Marina Cicogna; the restoration of We had loved each other so much of Scola; the last test by Gigi Proietti in I am Santa Claus; the homage to Monica Vitti by Fabrizio Corallo presented by Paola Cortellesi; the Rigoletto «By» Damiano Michieletto.
Also waiting for Promises by Amanda Shters with Pierfrancesco Favino and Kelly Reilly, Cyrano by Joe Wright and two films from the independent section Alice in the city, Eternals by Chloé Zhao e Belfast by Kenneth Branagh.
Laura Delli Colli, president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, underlines the “desire to restart”. The budget is 4 million 165 thousand euros (half a million more than last year). The red carpets will be regulated. Participating countries are 22 (Kosovo, Dominican Republic and Saudi Arabia the news), and 22 are female directors.
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