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MARGINS/MARGINI (Niccolò Falsetti 2022) This engaging and heartfelt film about three young men struggling to make a go of an Italian street punk...

NICCOLÒ FALSETTI: MARGINS/MARGINI SLINFATTI, CREATINI AND TURBANTI IN MARGINI Waling in the sticks This is the tale of three young guys...

ROBERTO DE PAOLIS: PRINCESS (2022) GLORY KEVIN IN PRINCESS Force of nature The followup to De Paolis' Pure Hearts (Open Roads 2018) this...

DELTA (Michele Vannucci, 2022) Weaves a "Western" style duel to the death into a rich, sensual portrait of the foggy Po Delta region and its...

NOSTALGIA (Mario Martone 2022) OPEN ROADS is featuring Martone. This is his latest film, a 'you can't go home again' tale of a man who returns...

DRY/SICCITÀ (Paolo Virzì 2022) Using a "choral" technique as he has before Virzì this time presents a seriocomic panorama of a Rome where the...

CHIARA (Susanna Nicchiarelli 2022) Nicchiareli's life of the saint who was a companion of Saint Francis of Assisi breaks the fourth wall and...

THE HUMMINGBIRD/IL COLIBRÌ (Francesca Archibugi 2022) This adaptation of Sandro Veronesi’s Strega Prize-winning novel hops back and forth between...

PAOLO VIRZÌ: DRY/SICCITÀ (2022) SILVIO ORLANDO (CENTER) IN DRY/SICCITÀ Virzì's most choral film Almost at the center of this symphonic...

Cannes... red carpet looks PERFECTLY GORGEOUS HELEN MIRREN STILL MAKES A SPLASH AT 77, AND NO "WORK" DONE (MAYBE) JENNIFER LAWRENCE:...

Cannes final hours... STILL FROM ANATOMY OF A FALL Justine Triet caused controversy at Cannes in a "fiery" Palme d'Or acceptance speech,...

Cannes finishes ... JUSTINE TRIET AND SANDRA HÜLLER AT THE PALME D'OR AWARDING Awards and summing up of Cannes 2023. The Palme d'Or went...

MARIO MARTONE: NOSTALGIA (2022) PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO IN NOSTALGIA You can't go home again Ermanno Rea’s last novel, published...

SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI: CHIARA (2020 MARGHARITA MAZZUCCO IN CHIARA A female counterpoint of Francis of Assisi This modern take on an early...

MICHELE VANNUCCI: DELTA (2022) LUIGI LO CASCIO, ALESSANDRO BORGHI IN DELTA Local conflicts end in a one-on-one duel Locarno, home of the...

Cannes...on with the show THE OLD OAK THE OLD OAK (Ken Loach) His final film in Competition (he is 86); he has won two Palmes d'Or and...

Cannes... VARIETY predictions by Clayton Davis for Cannes prizes. Both ZONE OF INTEREST and ANATOMY OF A FALL star Sandra Hüller, so it's...

Cannes... Peter Bradshaw's GUARDIAN Cannes award predictions and personal favorites:

Cannes... CERRAR LOS OJOS Lower profile Competition films and a comeback after 30 years. CLOSE YOUR EYES/CERRAR LOS OJOS (Victor Erice) ...

FRANCESCA ARCHIBUGI: THE HUMMINGBIRD/IL COLIBRÌ (2022) OPENING NIGHT FILM BÉATRICE BEJO, PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO IN THE HUMMINGBIRD A...

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2023 TEASER-TRAILER FOR THE WHOLE SERIES: HERE

Cannes... ZERO CLUB CLUB ZERO (Jessica Haussner) In the GUARDIAN Bradshaw finds "not much to chew on in this baffling non-satire" and gives...

Cannes...2 Italians in Competition KIDNAPPED KIDNAPPED/RAPITO (Marco Bellocchio). Four stars from enthusiastic Bradshaw who says the...

Cannes.. ASTEROID CITY (TOM HANKS, RIGHT) ASTEROID CITY (Wes Anderson) Peter Bradshaw in the GUARDIAN gives Anderson's Competition film...

Cannes... VIRGINIE EFIRA, MELVIL POUPAUD JUST THE TWO OF US/L'AMOUR ET LES FORETS (Valérie Donzelli) French psychological drama starring...

Cannes... JUDE LAW AND ALICIA VIKANDER FIREBRAND ( Karim Aïnouz) Peter Debruge, writing in Variety,disapproves of the way (he says) the...