Tag: Pierfrancesco Favino

Maria | Review

Songs from the Specious Floor: Larrain Imagines the Last Days of a Diva A penny for the thoughts of Maria Callas regarding Pablo Larraín’s glossy...

Laying Brick: Robin Campillo to Shoot “Enzo” this Month

The passing of the torch was confirmed around Cannes, and rather than what might have been an August shoot, Les Films de Pierre producer...

Adagio | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

Rome, Smoking City: Sollima Languorous Thriller Tiresomely Tests Narrative Cliches The most apropos element of Stefano Sollima’s Adagio is the title itself, as it’s two-hour-plus...

Comandante | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review

And the Sea Will Tell: De Angelis Sells the Soft Side of Fascism Napolitano director Edoardo De Angelis embarks on his most lavish offering to...

2023 Venice: Challengers Out, Comandante In as Venice Film Festival Opener

While there are plenty of fall film festival subtractions behind the scenes, just this hour we learned that we have our first public casualty...

Nostalgia | Review

You Can’t Go Home Again: Martone’s Latest Asserts the Past is a Dangerous Place In yet another foray into the teeming possibilities of Naples, Mario...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #128. Stefano Sollima’s Adagio

Adagio A quartet of heavyweight Italian actors in Pierfrancesco Favino, Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Adriano Giannini were put together for Stefano Sollima's next directing gig....

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...

2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor

Master filmmaker Marco Bellocchio returns to Cannes (he was last there for 2016’s Sweet Dreams - a Directors’ Fortnight entry) for what will be...

The Traitor | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review

Witness for the Prosecution: Bellocchio Delivers Vigorous Portrait of the Man Who Took Down the Cosa Nostra Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, on the verge of...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #32. The Traitor – Marco Bellocchio

The Traitor Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, whose radical early works were a seminal part of 1960s and 1970s Italian cinema, embarks on his latest feature...

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