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  • wednesday, 7 september 2022

Mazes

by Roberto Pugliese

After an amazing debut with The Father, Florian Zeller is back with a symmetrical work: The Son, a whirlwind of a story that uproots a borderline family, starring Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, and Vanessa Kirby. Casey Affleck and Zooey Deschanel walk the red carpet for Dreamin‘ Wild by Bill Pohlad, the human and musical story of Donnie and Joe Emerson.
In the Orizzonti section, past and present find their resolution in meta-filmic metaphor with Iranian film World War III by Houman Seyyedi, and in the difficult search for their father that the two twins carry out in Luxembourg, Luxembourg by Ukrainian filmmaker Antonio Lukich. Salvatore Mereu also chooses metaphor as a guideline for his filmmaking – his Bentu (Venice Days) is a story of harvest and wind in the Sardinia of the 1950s.

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THE SON

Two years after his parents divorced, seventeen-year-old Nicholas (Zen McGrath) cannot live with his mother anymore. The depression he feel never leaves him, and he can only fin...

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SAINT OMER

Inspired by real events that took place in France in 2013, the film follows Rama, a thirty-year-old author and soon-to-be mother who attends a trial at the court of law in Saint...

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DREAMIN’ WILD

Dreamin’ Wild is what the Emerson brothers, Donnie and Joe, named their first music album in 1979. It wasn’t just a simple album. It has been, first of all, the res...

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FREEDOM ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

“We are defending our freedom.” Thus Ukrainian President Zelensky commented
Putin’s ‘special military operation’ on February 24, 2022, when it was clear that the...

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WORLD WAR III

Unhoused labourer Shakib – intepreted by famous Iranian actor Mohsen Tanabandeh – is hired on a movie set. While filming a story on the evils of dictatorship, the directors ...

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LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG

Two twins, Kolya and Vasily, find out that their father, who abandoned them in their infancy, lives in Luxembourg and is about to die. While Kolya wants to go and visit what he ...

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BENTU

Inspired by Antonio Cossu’s short story collection Il vento e altri racconti (‘The Wind and other stories’), “Bentu” (Sardinian for ‘wind...

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ANHELL69

Public eye and private life mix inextricably and try to gain protection and cover from virulent corruption and a degraded reality that is also violent, narcotic and soporiferous...

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ALL THE LIMELIGHT OF THIS YEAR

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If I Were Myself
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This is my story
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Mazes
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Poised lives
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Close relatives
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The legacy of our fathers
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At the margin
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Rights denied
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Tunes and chords
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Starting from the future