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  • friday, 9 september 2022

If I Were Myself

by Roberto Pugliese

From the prison that currently houses him, Jafar Panahi talks to us about an Iran that knows no peace in No Bears, which sees him in a quasi-autobiography interpretation. Our Ties also sees director Roschdy Zem starring as himself, as does talented pianist Tymoteusz Bies in Bread and Salt, the latter directed by Damian Kocur.
Rounding up the Italian army of four is Susanna Nicchiarelli’s third portrait of historical female figures: Chiara, about the life of Clare of Assisi. Out of competition is Oliver Stone’s latest work, Nuclear. The Venice Days programme end with Steve Buscemi’s The Listener. The least exhausted of you after our amazing yearly film marathon may be interested in the six episodes of Copenhagen Cowboy, by Nicolas Winding Refn. The final screening of the 79th Venice Film Festival will be a dark thriller/film noir by Francesco Carrozzini: The Hanging Sun, starring Alessandro Borghi, Peter Mullan, and beautiful Norwegian summer.

All the photocalls' Daily pick

NO BEARS

Two stories, running parallel to one another, show social and cultural opposition in modern Iran. Panahi stars himself as a director who faces the opposition of the Iranian vill...

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OUR TIES

Inspired by his own life, Roschdy Zem directs and stars in a drama on family relationships, a mix of irony and comedy. Moussa is a kind young man who has always been present for...

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BREAD AND SALT

Tymek is a young, talented student at the Warsaw Conservatory. He travels back to his hometown in the countryside for a vacation. Back home, time seems to have stopped – the o...

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CHIARA

Assisi, central Italy, year 1211. Chiara (Margherita Mazzucco, My Brilliant Friend) is barely eighteen when one night, she leaves her family home and all her comforts t...

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NUCLEAR

Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, Little Boy and Fat Man, the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Chernobyl are but a few historical landmarks of n...

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THE HANGING SUN

Inspired by Jo Nesbø’s novel Midnight Sun, this noir thriller is set in the Norwegian summer, between past and present. John (Alessandro Borghi), is running from his...

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COPENHAGEN COWBOY

Perversion and instinct enclosed in the creative act push director Winding Refn to launch a new six-episode series set in his hometown of Copenhagen. A tragic trip awaits the au...

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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