The Venice Classics are all of extraordinary beauty and interest. This section is a festival within the festival, which enjoys, and this is the most intriguing and encouraging aspect to underline, a growing participation from younger audiences. This proves once again that the history of cinema, when properly proposed, is lifeblood for all generations, and it is not just “mere” material for specialists or nostalgic enthusiasts.
Paulette, a young girl fleeing Paris during the Nazi invasion, is orphaned after an air raid and finds refuge with a farming family, forming a close bond with Michel, the youngest member. Together, they create a sort of ‘sacred’ place where they can live in peace. ...
A young man from a group of militant filmmakers witnesses the suicide of one of their members, who had a Bolex camera in his possession, which is immediately seized by the police. The protagonist desperately tries to recover the footage shot by the deceased and, wit...
In mid-1990s Copenhagen, dealer Frank navigates the city’s underground scene, interacting with characters living on the fringes of society. When a major deal with Milo, a Serbian boss, threatens to change his life, everything falls apart, and Frank must fight for his sur...
A bourgeois couple wanders through Milanese clubs and high-society parties in search of something that has long since vanished. He, a writer, becomes infatuated with the twenty-year-old daughter of an industrialist who wants to hire him to write a book about his com...
After the suicide of a police officer, a colleague begins to investigate the incident but faces a wall of silence from his superiors. As he delves deeper, he uncovers a vast network of corruption linking the top ranks of the police with organized crime. His pursuit of justice ...
Between comedy and tragedy, with a strong emphasis on moral redemption, the duo Zavattini-De Sica draws on the collection of short stories by Giuseppe Marotta, which in turn revives masks and tragicomic situations from the Neapolitan sceneggiata, to create an episodic film set...
With his 1980 documentary, Frederick Wiseman delves into the inner workings of the high fashion industry. Inside Zoli Management Inc. in New York City, we witness the production of advertising spots, model auditions, and fashion shows: an enormous business rooted in...
Peter Brook first brought the Indian epic poem Mahābhārata to the stage and later to the big screen. The original cinematic adaptation was nine hours long, which was eventually reduced to six and then to three hours to facilitate its theatrical release and DVD format. The pr...
The soft skin describes with a very tight editing a bourgeois adultery, all lies and fear, with a tragic conclusion (much criticized, but taken from a real story). Pierre Lachenay, a famous intellectual, is fascinated by a young stewardess but terrified of being caught out. We...
A brisk pace, frantic dialogue, and live sound. Working from a screenplay by Charles Lederer, Hawks creates a memorable screwball comedy, a remake of Lewis Milestone’s splendid 1931 film The Front Page, featuring Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant in top form.
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