Tag: Valia Santella

Elisa | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review

Memories of Murder: Di Costanzo Treads Criminal Motives The impetus behind Elisa, the latest from Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo is pregnant with intrigue, examining...

Nanni Moretti’s Il sol dell’avvenire – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 8

Palme d’Or winner (The Son’s Room in 2001) Nanni Moretti makes another trip to the competition with an ode to cinema (and Martin Scorsese's...

Il sol dell’avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review

If You Don’t Die Today: Moretti Can’t Find the Rhythm in Musical Delusion To say the latest film from Nanni Moretti, Il sol dell'avvenire (A Brighter...

Ariaferma (The Inner Cage) | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review

Guards and Monsters: Costanzo Finds Humanity in Balanced Ratios Utilizing the novel opportunity of how power wanes in the crumbling of an institution’s viability, Italian...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #128. Tre piani – Nanni Moretti

Tre piani Italy’s Nanni Moretti breaks a five-year hiatus (from feature films) with his thirteenth narrative, Tre piani, which is also the director’s first adaptation....

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...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #171. Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre

Mia Madre (My Mother) Director: Nanni Moretti Writers: Nanni Moretti, Franceso Poccolo and Valia Santella Producers: Moretti's Sacher Film production,  Le Pacte, Arte Cinema U.S. Distributor: Rights...

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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...