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A myriad words and miles of film, fiction and non-, have been spent on Marilyn Monroe. Fifty years since her death, Andrew Dominik set out to explore, more than the myth of Marilyn, Norma Jeane’s inner life in his latest feature film, Blonde, starring Ana de Armas. The film builds upon Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, also titled Blonde. From Iran, also in the main competition, is the third feature film by Vahid Jalilvand (Orizzonti Award for Best Direction in 2017 for No Date, No Signature): Shab, Dakheli, Divar (Beyond the Wall), a modern parable on disability, solitude, and maternity. In the Orizzonti section, Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella, starring Laura Paredes, is the story of Laura (yes, there’s three of them), who has mysteriously disappeared off a town in the Buenos Aires Province. Out of Competition, Dry by Paolo Virzì.
“Watched by all, seen by none”. A tempestuous journey into the life of Norma Jeane Baker – the legendary Marilyn Monroe – her loves, movies, and inner torment of a public person who had a conflictual relationship with her smothering status of celebrity. An unconvention...
Ali is a blind man who, because of his condition, decided to take his own life. He is saved at the last minute by the janitor of his building, who also informs him that a woman is hiding there as she is being chased by police for participating in a protest march. Ali finds out...
A woman disappears, and two men start looking for her. Both have a valid reason to, and each has a different opinion on the reasons behind the woman’s disappearance. Their investigation is the base plot for several other stories, shown in non-linear fashion (the audience may...
On a hot summer day Draginja finds a corpse that looks like her.
To impress her friends she hires a fake husband.
On a freezing winter night she roams in the streets, desperate to recover her memory.
As the three subplots evolve, the protagonist rebels aga...
A future without water: how far removed is a possibility such as this, following climate change and social predicaments of the last few years? The film speculates on an apocalyptic, almost irreversible scenario, though not as improbable as it may seem. Like a biblical plague, ...
Who is Tooba Gondal, a French-British jihadist known in the press as the ISIS matchmaker? It seems almost insane to think about love relationships when brutal violence of Islamist extremists is part of the equation, and yet, Gondal’s duty, recruited among jihadists ...
