Tag: Francesca Cima
Interview: Andrea Pallaoro – The Echo Chamber
With his fourth feature film, Andrea Pallaoro turns his fascination with isolation, fractured identity and the difficult mechanics of human connection toward a story...
The Echo Chamber | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness of Being
Love is hardly a many-splendored thing in The Echo Chamber, the fourth feature directed...
Another End | Review
The Power of Goodbye: Messina Gets Maudlin with Future Grief
The devil’s unfortunately absent in the details of Another End, a conceptual science fiction melodrama...
Fuori | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Hoosegow Girls: Martone Pays Delicate Tribute to Goliarda Sapienza
“Never refuse to see the unpleasant aspects of life,” wrote Goliarda Sapienza in her widely...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Piero Messina’s Another End
It's been a long eight years between projects - but it might be worth the "wait" for this ambitious and stacked sophomore feature. Piero...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #72. Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza’s Sicilian Ghost Story
Sicilian Ghost Story
Directors: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
Writers: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
Directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza won the Grand Prize at 2013...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #62. Piero Messina’s The Wait
The Wait
Director: Piero Messina // Writers: Piero Messina, Ilaria Macchia, Andrea Paolo Massara, Giacomo Bendotti
Piero Messina previously served as Assistant Director on Paolo Sorrentino's...
