OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA, May 30- June 6, 2024

[Chris Knipp]

THERE'S STILL TOMORROW/C'È ANCORA DOMANI (Paola Cortellesi 2023)

Already reviewed,; now seen with the series audience one could see how striking its images are, how funny it is, and what a crowd pleaser it is. Note: this indictment of patriarchy in Italy is one of the ten biggest box office movies in the country's history - it outstripped BARBIE there. No info on U.S. release. It has been distributed in France and the UK.

[Chris Knipp]

EL PARAÍSO (Enrico Maria Artale 2023)

Bonds that destroy are effectively depicted in Artale's oedipal drama of a in illegal Colombian woman and her dependent 40-year-old living in a drug dealing and using bubble on the fringes of Rome/Fiumicino and speaking in their own mixture of Roman dialect and Spanish. Vivid, intense mix of realism and expressionism and powerful performances by Margarita Rosa de Francisco and Edoardo Pesce.

Screened for this review as part of the Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series (May 31-Jun. 6, 2024) at Lincoln Center. Showtimes were:
Saturday, June 1 at 1:00pm – Q&A with Enrico Maria Artale
Tuesday, June 4 at 6:00pm

[Chris Knipp]

LINKS TO THE REVIEWS
Adagio (Stefano Sollima 2023)
Another End (Pietro Messina)
The Beautiful Summer/La bella estate (Laura Lucchetti)
A Brighter Tomorrow / Il sol dell’avvenire (Nanni Moretti)
Comandante/The War Machine (Edoardo De Angelis) Opening Night Film
An Endless Sunday/Una sterminata domenica (Alain Parroni)
Enea (Pietro Castellitto
I Told You So/Te l'avevo detto (Ginevra Elkann)
Lubo (Giorgio Diritti)
Mi Fanno Male I Capelli (Roberta Torre)
Oceans Are the Real Continents (Tommaso Santambrogi)
El Paraïso (Enrico Maria Artale)
There's Still Tomorrow/C'è ancora domani (Paola Cortellesi)