Tag: Francesca Calvelli

The Life Apart | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre...

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...

Marco Bellocchio’s Kidnapped – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7

If we don't count the pandemic year, it will be four consecutive showings in Cannes for the maestro. The Traitor was in competition in...

Kidnapped (Rapito) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review

A Soul to Take: Bellocchio Deliriously Dissects a Papal Delictum Marco Bellocchio has lost none of his flair nor his energetic zest in his latest...

Esterno notte (Exterior Night) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review

Dead in Red: Bellocchio Returns to Infamous Kidnapping for Television Debut In his continuation in recuperating fantastical elements of Italian political and criminal history, Marco...

2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor

Master filmmaker Marco Bellocchio returns to Cannes (he was last there for 2016’s Sweet Dreams - a Directors’ Fortnight entry) for what will be...

The Traitor | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review

Witness for the Prosecution: Bellocchio Delivers Vigorous Portrait of the Man Who Took Down the Cosa Nostra Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, on the verge of...

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2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’

While she has dropped world premieres at Sundance and...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Dardenne Bros.’ ‘Jeunes mères’

Winner of the Palme d'Or for 1999's Rosetta (which...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Bi Gan’s ‘Resurrection’

An already acclaimed filmmaker in his own right after...