Tag: Mario Gianani
Fatherland | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review
Every Mann for Themselves: Pawlikowski Remains Chilly with Cold War Permafrost
Two iconoclastic German writers are locked in a spiritual duel for relevance at the...
Behind the Ruins: Sandra Hüller Drives Black Buick in Pawlikowski’s Post-War Odyssey ‘1949’
Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland has indeed moved into production - just now its being called 1949 and its got the weighty cast of Sandra Hüller,...
Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Wild at Heart: Serebrennikov Oversimplifies Odyssey of Soviet Dissident
If one were to dilute a Molotov cocktail enough to make its destructive capabilities null and...
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...
Interview: Carolina Cavalli – Amanda
A refreshing new voice on the Italian cinema scene popped up in the Orizzonti section (Venice Film Festival's parallel section to the comp) in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #26. Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
The critic elite in Cannes might not have been big (we were) on his Tchaikovsky's Wife, but Kirill Serebrennikov is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #129. Saverio Costanzo’s Finalemente L’Alba
Finalemente L’alba
After directing a whopping 70 episodes of "In Treatment" and just over a dozen episodes of "My Brilliant Friend," 2014's Hungry Hearts (five-time...
L’immensità | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
This Boy’s Life: Crialese Cuts Corners in Well-Meant Trans Coming-of-Age Drama
Director Emanuele Crialese explores the slow disintegration of a dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome...
Rifkin’s Festival | Review
Spain & Glory: Allen Apes His Darlings in Familiar Comedy of Marital Discord
The first entry of Woody Allen’s European banishment in the twilight years...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #93. Emanuele Crialese’s L’immensità
L'immensità
Working at a pace that hovers around one feature per five years, Emanuele Crialese took a longer than usual "sabbatical" after Terraferma premiered at...
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...
