THE VICE OF HOPE (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Panorama)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Edoardo De Angelis, with Pina Turco, Massimiliano Rossi, Marina Confalone, Cristina Donadio, Marcello Romolo. Maria walks firmly; her hood up, her time flows along with the river she lives by. A hand-to-mouth life, without dreams or desires, spent taking care of her mother and at the […]
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HAPPY AS LAZZARO (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Gala)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Alice Rohrwacher, with Adriano Tardiolo, Alba Rohrwacher, Tommaso Ragno, Luca Chikovani, Agnese Graziani. This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their […]
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THE MAN WHO STOLE BANKSY (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Documentary Cinema)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a doco-film by Marco Proserpio, with Iggy Pop, Carlo McCormick. A conversation with Marco Proserpio will follow the screening. From Bethlehem to the bank. Banksy, the art trickster, appeared (unobserved, as usual) on the West Bank in 2007 to decorate walls in a gesture that mocked the Israeli occupation. […]
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THE POSTMAN (1994) | Haifa Film Festival (Special screenings)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Massimo Troisi & Michael Radford, with Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Linda Moretti, Renato Scarpa. In the 1950s, when exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much mail that Mario is hired as his postman. His job is […]
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THE POSTMAN – A LOOK INSIDE (1994) | Haifa Film Festival (Special screenings)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a docu-film by Stefano Veneruso, with Massimo Troisi, Michael Radford, Luise Bacalov, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Anna Pavignano, Roberto Perpignani, Philippe Noiret. A conversation with Stefano Veneruso will follow the screening. Stefano Veneruso began his career as an assistant director on the set of Michael Redford’s The Postman. At the […]
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DEEP RED (1975) | Haifa Film Festival (Midnight Madness)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Dario Argento, with David Hemmings, Clara Calamai, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra. Marcus Daly, a British musician in Rome, witnesses the murder of a famous psychic. He teams up with a feisty reporter, Gianna Brezzi, to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives […]
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LUCIA’S GRACE (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Gala)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Gianni Zanasi, with Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Giuseppe Battiston, Hadas Yaron, Carlotta Natoli. A conversation with Gianni Zanasi will follow the screening. Lucia, a surveyor by profession, lives with her teenage daughter in a small town in the Veneto region. One day the Virgin Mary appears […]
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RICORDI? (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Golden Anchor Competition)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Valerio Mieli, with Luca Marinelli, Linda Caridi, Giovanni Anzaldo, Camilla Diana. A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple: recollections altered by moods, their different perspectives, and time itself. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply […]
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MARCO FERRERI: DANGEROUS BUT NECESSARY (2017) | Haifa Film Festival (Documentary Cinema)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a doco-film by Anselma Dell’Olio. A conversation with Anselma Dell’Olio will follow the screening. Marco Ferreri (1928-97) was a satirist of everything and a proud champion of bad taste, which made his films prophetic. His classic was La Grande Bouffe (1976), a descent into gluttony, drunkenness and sexual abandon that […]
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DAUGHTER OF MINE (2018) | Haifa Film Festival (Golden Anchor Competition)
At the 34th Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Laura Bispuri, con Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Michele Carboni, Udo Kier. 10 year-old Vittoria lives with her parents in a small Sardinian community. Nearby, living in relative decrepitude, is Angelica, who is facing eviction for her failure to pay taxes. The unpredictable Angelica, […]
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