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DAVIDE GENTILE: MY SUMMER WITH THE SHARK/DENTI DA SQUALO (2023)

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MY SUMMER WITH THE SHARK/DENTI DI SQUALO



My Summer with the Shark/Denti da...

PRINCESS (Roberto De Paolis 2022)

De Paolis began with 2017's PURE HEARTS, a raw, intense love story. He does something equally intense and more attention-getting and sociological here in...

FIREWORKS/STRANIZZA D'AMURI (Giuseppe Fiorello 2023)

A gay love story set in Sicily, an infamous hate crime, a lasting political impact. Based on an atrocity in 1980 that led to founding of the...

GIUSEPPE FIORELLO: FIREWORKS/STRANIZZA D'AMURI (2023)

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GABRIELE PIZZURRO AND SAMUELE SEGRETO IN FIREWORKS/STRANIZZA D'AMURI

A gay love story, an...

MARGINS/MARGINI (Niccolò Falsetti 2022)

This engaging and heartfelt film about three young men struggling to make a go of an Italian street punk band in 2008 is a tribute to youth and to...

NICCOLÒ FALSETTI: MARGINS/MARGINI

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SLINFATTI, CREATINI AND TURBANTI IN MARGINI

Wailing in the sticks

This is the tale of three young guys in...

ROBERTO DE PAOLIS: PRINCESS (2022)

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GLORY KEVIN IN PRINCESS

Force of nature

The followup to De Paolis' warm-hearted young love story Pure...

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 severe social and ecological changes. Go-for-broke...

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 to Naples after 40 years abroad and thinks it will...

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 river has turned to dust and everything is as crazy as...

CHIARA (Susanna Nicchiarelli 2022)

Nicchiareli's life of the saint who was a companion of Saint Francis of Assisi breaks the fourth wall and includes sudden musical numbers. It surprises and...

THE HUMMINGBIRD/IL COLIBRÌ (Francesca Archibugi 2022)

This adaptation of Sandro Veronesi’s Strega Prize-winning novel hops back and forth between five decades of a man's life. It's hard to keep up...

PAOLO VIRZÌ: DRY/SICCITÀ (2022)

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SILVIO ORLANDO (CENTER) IN DRY/SICCITÀ

Virzì's most choral film

Almost at the center of this symphonic "comedy"...

Cannes... red carpet looks

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PERFECTLY GORGEOUS

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HELEN MIRREN STILL MAKES A SPLASH AT 77, AND NO...

Cannes final hours...

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STILL FROM ANATOMY OF A FALL

Justine Triet caused controversy at Cannes in a "fiery" Palme d'Or acceptance speech, VARIETY...

Cannes finishes ...

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JUSTINE TRIET AND SANDRA HÜLLER AT THE PALME D'OR AWARDING

Awards and summing up of Cannes 2023.

The Palme d'Or went to...

MARIO MARTONE: NOSTALGIA (2022)

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PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO IN NOSTALGIA

You can't go home again

Ermanno Rea’s last novel, published posthumously in...

SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI: CHIARA (2020

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MARGHARITA MAZZUCCO IN CHIARA

A female counterpoint of Francis of Assisi

This modern take on an early...

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS (Nicole Holofcener 2023)

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TOBIAS MENZIES, JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS IN YOU HURT MY FEELINGS

Illusions

Nicole Holofcener's new...

SUZANNE RAES: CLOSE TO VERMEER (2023)

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DR. WEBER PLANNING THE RIJKSMUSEUM BLOCKBUSTER SHOW "VERMEER" IN CLOSE TO VERMEER

TRAILER

A film about an...

MICHELE VANNUCCI: DELTA (2022)

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LUIGI LO CASCIO, ALESSANDRO BORGHI IN DELTA

Local conflicts end in a one-on-one duel

Locarno, home of the wild...

Cannes...on with the show

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THE OLD OAK


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

Cannes...

VARIETY predictions by Clayton Davis for Cannes prizes.



Both ZONE OF INTEREST and ANATOMY OF A FALL star Sandra Hüller, so it's quite her moment.
ZONE OF INTEREST could be...

Cannes...

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

Cannes...

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CERRAR LOS OJOS

Lower profile Competition films and a comeback after 30 years.

CLOSE YOUR EYES/CERRAR LOS OJOS (Victor Erice)
The...