Tag: Maurizio Lombardi

Princess | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

Grimm Fairy Tale: De Paolis’ Neo-Realist Exploration of Migrant Sex Work Brazen, Bewildering Life’s anything but a fairy tale for the titular character at the...

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...

Interview: Roberto De Feo – The Nest | 2019 Locarno Film Festival

Roberto De Feo is fresh from a Locarno bow with his debut feature The Nest, presented in the Crazy Midnight slot of the Piazza...

Video Interview: Agustina Macri – Soledad | 2018 Warsaw International Film Festival

Based on a true story, Soledad is a well-observed, passionate feature debut from Agustina Macri (who is incidentally the oldest daughter of Mauricio, the...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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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.