THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS (1970) – Haifa Film Festival (Haifa Classics)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Vittorio De Sica, with Fabio Testi, Helmut Berger, Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Romolo Valli. Amid the ravages of WWII, the Finzi-Continis, a cultured Jewish family, languish in aristocratic splendor on their lavish estate in Ferrara. As the political atmosphere becomes increasingly hostile to the Jews, the […]
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SWEET DREAMS (2016) – Haifa Film Festival (International Panorama)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Marco Bellocchio, with Valerio Mastandrea, Bérénice Bejo, Guido Caprino, Nicolò Cabras, Dario Dal Pero. When Massimo was a nine-year-old boy in Turin in 1969 his mother died a mysterious death and the boy’s idyllic world came tumbling down. Now a successful adult, he plans to sell […]
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PERFECT STRANGERS (2016) – Haifa Film Festival (Gala)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Paolo Genovese, with Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Valerio Mastandrea. Over a dinner party a group of close friends in their 30s decide to play a dangerous game. Each attendee places their cell phone on the table and agrees to make all texts […]
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THE CONFESSIONS (2016) – Haifa Film Festival (Golden Anchor Competition)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Roberto Andò, with Toni Servillo, Connie Nielsen, Pierfrancesco Favino, Marie-Josée Croze, Moritz Bleibtreu. A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world’s most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One […]
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THE LAST RESORT (2016) – Haifa Film Festival (Golden Anchor Competition)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Thanos Anastopoulos & Davide Del Degan. Documentary. The Last Resort follows the life stories of beach-goers in a very popular beach in Trieste, in the Northeast of Italy, where a wall still separates men from women, a quirky remainder of times past, a bit like the […]
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LIKE CRAZY (2016) – Haifa Film Festival (Gala)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Paolo Virzì, with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Valentina Carnelutti, Tommaso Ragno, Bob Messini. At Villa Biondi, a congenial Tuscan retreat for women in recovery, the aristocratic Beatrice queens it over staff and fellow patients alike. When Donatella, a painfully thin, tattooed mess, is admitted […]
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FIORE (2016) – Haifa Film Festival (International Panorama)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Claudio Giovannesi, with Daphne Scoccia, Josciua Algeri, Laura Vasiliu, Aniello Arena, Gessica Giulianelli. Daphne is a troubled youth living on the margins of Italian society. She spends her days with a criminal outfit, mugging subway passengers, a habit that inevitably leads her to juvenile prison. It […]
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WORLDLY GIRL (2016) – Haifa Film Festival (International Panorama)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Marco Danieli, with Sara Serraiocco, Michele Riondino, Marco Leonardi, Stefania Montorsi, Pippo Delbono. Giulia belongs to the Jehovah’s Witness community. She is an academically gifted young woman but her education, aspirations and personal relationships are repressed by the rigid path determined by her family and their […]
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A BIGGER SPLASH (2015) – Haifa Film Festival (Double Feature)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Luca Guadagnino, with Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tilda Swinton, Aurore Clément. Rock legend Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is recuperating on the volcanic Mediterranean island of Pantelleria with her partner Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) when her old flame, the iconoclastic record producer Harry Hawkes (Ralph Fiennes) […]
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LA PISCINE (1969) – Haifa Film Festival (Double Feature)
At the 32nd Haifa International Film Festival, a movie by Jacques Deray, with Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet, Romy Schneider, Jane Birkin, Maurice Ronet. Alain Delon and Romy Schneider are Jean-Paul and Marianne, lovers who appear to be gloriously happy in a sumptuous villa in the south of France. Then Marianne’s ex-lover shows up for a visit: […]
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