Tag: Alba Rohrwacher
Maria | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva
A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy...
La Chimera | Review
The Passionate Thief: Rohrwacher Finds Treasures Under the Tuscan Sun
“The sun is following us,” whispers a willowy blonde in the enigmatic opening moments...
Hors-saison | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Lover Come Back: Romance Rekindles in Brizé’s Elegant Exploration of Regret
The universal dilemma of romantic regret is wondering ‘what could have been’ based on...
Finalmente L’Alba (Finally Dawn) | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Cruel Intentions: Costanzo Pays Homage to the Demi-Monde of the Italian Film Industry
After adapting Elena Ferrante’s "My Brilliant Friend" for television, Saverio Costanzo returns...
Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10
A Cannes mainstay since her humble beginnings in the Directors’ Fortnight section with Corpo celeste, Alice Rohrwacher quickly ascended to comp-worthy status with the...
Hot Tub Time Machine: Brizé’s Begins Production on “Hors saison” with Canet & Rohrwacher
Stéphane Brizé is set to begin production in Brittany this month. Our friends at Cineuropa confirmed that Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher are indeed...
Marcel! | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Dog Gone: Trinca Debuts Pleasant Semi-autobiographical Dramedy
“I’m devoted to divination,” sniffs a haughty Alba Rohrwacher as a self-centered mother in Jasmine Trinca’s directorial debut,...
The Lost Daughter | Review
Parallel Mothers: Gyllenhaal Paints a Dark Portrait in Sinister Ferrante Adaptation
“Attention is the purest form of hospitality,” is a quote from Simone Weil utilized...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #96. Nanni Moretti’s Tre Piani
Tre Piani
Italian auteur Nanni Moretti should be set to unveil his thirteenth narrative feature in 2021, Tre Piani, co-written by Federica Pontremoli and Valia...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #128. Tre piani – Nanni Moretti
Tre piani
Italy’s Nanni Moretti breaks a five-year hiatus (from feature films) with his thirteenth narrative, Tre piani, which is also the director’s first adaptation....
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #147. Sous le ciel d’Alice – Chloé Mazlo
Sous le ciel d'Alice
For her directorial debut, celebrated short film director Chloé Mazlo will have Sous le ciel d’Alice (translated as Under Alice’s Sky) on...
Interview: Markus Schleinzer – Angelo | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival
Markus Schleinzer’s second feature Angelo (review) has had a long life on the festival circuit, premiering in Toronto (Platform section 2018) and giving wide...
If Only | 2019 Locarno Film Festival Review
Father of My Children: Elkann Siphons Lovingly from Familial Dysfunction for Debut
The holidays will always be rife for cinematic exploration of familial discord and...
Daughter of Mine | Review
Miss Mom: Bispuri Challenges Family Symmetry in Captivating Sophomore Pic
With her sensory filled coming-of-age sophomore feature, Laura Bispuri navigates the sweet and sour voyage...
Audio Interview: Laura Bispuri – Daughter of Mine (Figlia mia)
Day 4 at the Berlinale provided a gem of a film in provenance of the Mediterranean Sea's second largest island. The focal point of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #69. Last Words – Jonathan Nossiter
Last Words
For his fourth narrative feature, US based filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter embarks on the long-gestating Last Words, a French-Italian co-production through Paris-based Doc &...
Angelo | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Moor the Merrier: Schleinzer Returns with Incendiary Portrait of Indentured Servitude
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer returns with his long-awaited sophomore film Angelo, a follow-up...
Desplechin gets Ish with “Ismael’s Ghosts” | DVD Review
A star-studded cast can’t quite save Arnaud Desplechin’s troubled dramedy Ismael’s Ghosts, which opened the 2017 Cannes Film Festival as an out-of-competition entry (a...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions III: Italy’s Sorrentino, Garrone & Rohrwacher Lead Europa Europa
It’s less than a week before the official program is unveiled for Cannes 2018 and this year’s festival already promises to be one of...
Ismael’s Ghosts (Director’s Cut) | Review
Call Me, Ismael: Desplechin Presents Jumbled Portrait of the Artist as a Dulled Man
Perhaps not since the quill of Charles Dickens, wherein iconic Ebenezer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: # 35. Alice Rohrwacher’s Lazzaro Felice
Lazzaro Felice
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, also known as the sister of acclaimed actress Alba Rohrwacher, has quietly become one of the most prominent contemporary...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #50. Markus Schleinzer’s Angelo
Angelo
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer broke into the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival with his provocative 2011 debut, Michael (which plays like...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #35. Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts
Ismael’s Ghosts
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Writer: Arnaud Desplechin, Lea Mysius, Julie Peyr
Arnaud Desplechin has been one of the most notable contemporary Gallic auteurs since the mid-1990s,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 87. Ulrich Kohler’s In My Room
In My Room
Director: Ulrich Kohler
Writer: Ulrich Kohler
German director Ulrich Kohler (who also happens to be the partner of Maren Ade, who is currently enjoying...
Tale of Tales | Review
Good Gaud: Garrone’s Critique of Aristocracy Goes Barely Skin-Deep
Italy’s film industry is enjoying something of a renaissance lately, though honestly it’d have to be...
Hungry Hearts | Review
Heart of Glass: Costanzo’s Uncomfortable, Emotional Glance at Madness
Must every cinematic portrait of mental illness be ‘illuminating?’ Your answer to that question may gauge...<