Tag: Giovanni Pompili
Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)
Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential excavation of selfhood, cinema had already been preoccupied for nearly a century with the blurring...
Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias – Forastera
Set in Mallorca, Cata's summer is drenched in sun and lazy promise—until it is violently rewritten by the absurd, sudden death of her grandmother,...
My Summer with Irène | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Summertime Sadness: Sironi Escapes to Sicily in Oblique Friendship Drama
There’s no running away from the past, no matter how glorious the sun dappled idyll...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #83. Laura Luchetti’s La bella estate
La bella estate
Following her critically acclaimed sophomore feature Twin Flower (world preem at 2018's TIFF), Laura Luchetti went on to shoot ten episodes of an...
Alcarràs | Review
Peach Be With You: Simon Harvests Bitter Reality in Solid, Steady Family Drama
Returning to the rural experiences which defined her 2017 debut Summer of...
35th European Film Awards: A Cannes Comp rematch for Ali Abbasi, Lukas Dhont & Ruben Ôstlund
Three huge winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival lead the noms for the 35th European Film Awards. Lukas Dhont’s Close, Ali Abbasi’s Holy...
Turin Twosome: Laura Luchetti’s Completes Production on “The Beautiful Summer”
Filming recently wrapped up on Laura Luchetti’s third feature film. Variety reports that Deva Cassel and Yile Yara Vianello toplined the The Beautiful Summer...
