(ANSA) – ROME, NOVEMBER 03 – It was a strange week that opened with a long festive “bridge” and between today and tomorrow brings 11 titles to the hall after the exploit of Claudio Baglioni’s film-concert he played early since Monday. The Marvel battleship of the season (“Eternals”) just seen at the Rome Film Festival is opposed by the charisma of Gigi Proietti disguised as Santa Claus for the occasion. Here is the full menu:
– I AM SANTA CLAUS by Edoardo Falcone with Marco Giallini, Gigi Proietti, Barbara Ronchi, Antonio Gerardi, Simone Colombari, Daniele Pecci, Alice Adamu, Lorenzo Gioielli, Fabrizio Giannini, Giorgia Salari, Massimo Vanni, Lucia Batassa, Gianni Franco, Stefano Scandaletti . A simple story for the large family audience that sees the showman Gigi in the role of an unusual Santa Claus. In real life it is the quiet retiree Nicola who attracts the attention of the thief Ettore (Marco Giallini), recently released from prison and unable to find a job other than what has always been his specialty. Except that in Nicola’s house there is nothing to steal, if not the secret identity of the quiet boarder. Ettore does not want to believe him, but he will have to surrender to the evidence.
– ETERNALS di Chloe Zhao con Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, Gemma Chan, Kit Harington, Brian Tyree Henry, Barry Keoghan, Lauren Ridloff, Don Lee, Lia McHugh.
At the beginning of the world there were the Celestials, chosen creatures capable of marking the destiny of humans. To counter the malevolent power of the Deviants who have taken over the world, the Eternals are then sent to defend the human race, led by the beautiful Athena (Jolie). The war will be without quarter. From the 1970s comic by Jack Kirby.
– ANNE’S CHOICE: THE EVENEMENT by Audrey Diwan with Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Sandrine Bonnaire, Pio Marmaï, Louise Chevillotte, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquéro, Leonor Oberson, Anna Mouglalis, Cyril Metzger, Éric Verdin, Alice de Lencquesaing, Madeleine Baudot, Fabrizio Rongione, Isabelle Mazin. It was surprisingly the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival, by unanimous choice of the jury. Yet it is only a story of ordinary despair, that of the young Anne who tries to build a job and a dignity as a single woman in France in the early 1960s when, without really wanting it, she finds herself pregnant and has to choose between two destinies. She would like to have an abortion, but, by the law of the time, she faces a crime and the rejection of society if only her secret is discovered.
– ANTIGONE by Sophie Deraspe with Nahéma Ricci, Rawad El-Zein, Antoine DesRochers, Sebastien Beaulac, Nour Belkhiria, Hakim Brahimi, Lise Castonguay, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Paul Doucet, Rachida Oussaada. Modern adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy with a lonely girl’s battle in the face of the injustice of the law. Parents are dead, Antigone has to provide for her sister and grandmother when her brothers Eteocles and Polinice are arrested and sentenced. Under the threat of the expulsion of the family and without hope in the defense of the brothers, Antigone chooses to face the battle by risking the attempt to make Polinice escape from prison.
– THE HIDDEN CHILD by Roberto Went with Silvio Orlando, Giuseppe Pirozzi, Lino Musella, Imma Villa, Salvatore Striano, Roberto Herlitzka, Tonino Taiuti, Alfonso Postiglione, Claudio Di Palma, Sergio Basile, Enzo Casertano, Francesco Di Leva, Gianfelice Imparato. Roberto Andò’s film that closed the Film Festival is a true thriller of feelings: the story of a denied affection and another given at one’s own risk. The subject of the clash is little Ciro, the son of a dangerous Camorra man who cannot bear to live under the cloak of violence and slips, unseen, into the house of the quiet piano teacher Gabriele Santoro. There are no explanations between the child and the adult, but Gabriele is unable to chase away Ciro and will end up giving him all the love the child is looking for. Surprise ending.
– MARINA CICOGNA, LIFE AND EVERYTHING ELSE by Andrea Bettinetti. An exciting portrait of the great lady of Italian cinema, grandson of the founder of the Mostra del Cinema, brilliant producer of masterpieces signed by Pasolini, Petri, Patroni Griffi, rebellious soul in the Italian society of the 60s, winner of an Oscar with “Investigation of a citizen “in 1969, photographer and protagonist in the international jet set. A film that gives Marina Cicogna back the place of honor it deserves and that is seen as a full-fledged portrait, full of surprises and bitter smiles.
– LAST NIGHT IN SOHO by Edgar Wright with Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, Terence Stamp, Synnove Karlsen, James Phelps, Rita Tushingham, Oliver Phelps, Michael Jibson. The sliding doors of the time seem to favor the dream of the young Eloise who has always cultivated the desire to meet the singer she has revered since childhood, the strong-willed Sandy, the protagonist in Swinging London in the 1960s. By a twist of fate, the wish comes true, but that revered London hides much more than a dangerous mystery …
Also out: THE MANY SAINTS OF NEW JERSEY by Alan Taylor, or the formation of the protagonist of the “Sopranos”, Mike Gandolfini struggling with the hard school of crime he learns from his mentor Dikie Moltisanti; DOVLATOV AND THE INVISIBLE BOOKS by Alekseij German, a biopic dedicated to one of the great writers of Soviet dissent in the 1970s, the great friend of Josip Brodskij; Paolo Cipolletta’s Italian drama UP TO BE HAPPY about Andrea’s double life, a work consultant by day and drag queen by night as adored by all as Octavia; the dystopian cartoon YAYA E LENNIE by Alessandro Rak presented at the last Locarno Film Festival ..
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