Tag: Massimo Ceccherini

Io Capitano | Review

Journey to Italy: Garrone Details Arduous Migrant Odyssey It might be a rite of passage for contemporary Italian auteurs to examine the grueling adversity faced...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #47. Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano

Io Capitano After 2018's Dogman and then 2019's Pinocchio, Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone stirs his ship towards coming-of-age adventure drama territory. Filmed in Italy, Morocco...

Pinocchio | Review

Nose the Ropes: Garrone Renovates Collodi’s Classic Children’s Text Sometime over the past century, the cinematic conception of the fairy tale has enabled a movement...

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...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...