Tag: Paolo Del Brocco

The Life Apart | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review

Imitation of Life: Giordana Composes an Old-Fashioned Miracle Music seems to be the language of the heart in The Life Apart (La vita accanto), a bizarre...

Gloria! | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Music of the Heart: Vicario Pays Symphonic Homage to Erased History Composer Margherita Vicario makes her directorial debut with Gloria!, a period piece recuperating a...

Another End | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival 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...

Lubo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

Children of a Lesser God: Diritti Highlights Swiss War Crimes in Prolonged Drama The actual history being explored in Giorgio Diritti’s three-hour drama Lubo is...

The Palace | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

It’s Only the End of the World: Polanski Checks Out with Broad Satire As many are likely to avoid The Palace, the latest film from persona...

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...

L’ordine del tempo | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

Time After Time: Cavani Commits Time Crimes in Overwrought Farce What does time mean when we’re all out of it? Thus is the quagmire...

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: Marcello Fonte – Dogman

We witnessed a bridge with Italian cinemaʼs past with the pair of comp offerings in Cannes last year. Along with Happy as Lazarro, there...

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