Massimiliano Gallo, Margherita Buy and Marina Confalone lead the cast of this Paco Cinematografica and Amazon Prime Video production, co-produced by Poland. A chaotic, dysfunctional family with all its conflicts, misunderstandings and silences forms the basis of Alessandro Gassmann’s latest feature film Il silenzio grande, on which shooting wrapped this Friday. Following on from Razzabastarda and The Prize, the well-known actor is once again stepping behind the camera, this time with a screenplay based on the homonymous stage production by Maurizio De Giovanni, which has been adapted for the big screen by the very same De Giovanni, together with Andrea Ozza and Gassmann. The story is as follows: once a luxurious home and now a creaking old mansion straight out of the pages of a ghost story, Villa Primic has been put up for sale. It was a painful decision, made by Signora Primic (Rose) and supported by Massimiliano and.
- 12/15/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Marco Bellocchio’s film bagged seven prizes from the Italian film journalists, including Best Film and Best Director, while Leonardo D’Agostini and Valerio Mastandrea scooped Best Debut Directors. It really was Marco Bellocchio’s night on Saturday in Taormina’s Teatro Antico. The Traitor, the Piacenza-born director’s film on the subject of Tommaso Buscetta, which debuted in competition in Cannes this year and already triumphed at the Italian Golden Globes just a few days ago (read our news), was handed no less than seven awards (out of 11 nomination) by the Sngci – National Union of Film Journalists: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Score, Best Actor (Pierfrancesco Favino) and Best Supporting Actor (Luigi Lo Cascio and Fabrizio Ferracane). In terms of the reigning women, Italy’s film journalists named Anna Foglietta and Marina Confalone best actresses, while...
Less than an hour from Naples, Italy is Castel Volturno, a place marred by newspaper headlines like “Forsaken Village” and “Sex, Drugs, and the Mafia.” It shouldn’t surprise then that director Edoardo De Angelis would use it as the setting for his latest film The Vice of Hope considering child trafficking and prostitution are prevalently at its back. These criminal enterprises are presented as this comune’s means for financial stability, everywhere we’re taken openly servicing one or both with little threat of consequences that aren’t personally enforced via the psychological trauma endured. This is the only life Maria (Pina Turco) knows and her own inability to bear children makes her a perfect, unsympathetic coyote to ferry those willing to sell their babies for survival.
We meet her as a teen floating in the river, motionless and broken. She’s plucked from the water by a man...
We meet her as a teen floating in the river, motionless and broken. She’s plucked from the water by a man...
- 9/18/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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