Weekend at the cinema, from the cry of Panahi to glam Clooney and Roberts – Film

(by Giorgio Gosetti) (ANSA) – ROME, 06 OCT – Here is a week of good cinema that should not be missed. I’m already in the TRAVEL room, the intense documentary by Gianfranco Rosi on the travels of Pope Bergoglio; MR-BACHMAN AND HIS CLASS by Mari Speth, a very current account of the experiences of a German teacher close to retirement struggling with a multi-ethnic school group; Samuel Gonzalez Jr. and Bridget Smith’s horror THE RETALIATORS, co-directed and starring Michael Lombardi as a detective bishop of the impossible; the multimedia journey of Laura Chiossone and Giulio Boato in the world of TIZIANO. THE EMPIRE OF COLOR.
From tomorrow: – BEARS DO NOT EXIST by and with Jafar Panahi and with Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjei, Mina Kavani. Filmed in hiding on the border between Iran and Turkey, acclaimed in Venice where, despite the jury’s prize, it did not unjustly have the Golden Lion, the new film by the “outcast” author of Iran as always places him at the center of story in the part of a director who finds hospitality in a small mountain town to be closer (but has to shoot “remotely”) to the couple of lovers who have been waiting for a visa to cross the border since time immemorial. On the one hand, an absent state that hinders the happiness of two simple people, on the other an ancestral community that looks with growing suspicion at the “intruder” who arrives between them with the signs of modernity (cinema, camera). A heartbreaking song of freedom that ends in silence.
– EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert with Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jonathan Ke Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tallie Medel, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., Randy Newman, Biff Wiff, Sunita Mani, Aaron Lazar. The spectacular plunge into the future signed by “The Daniels” (this is how they love to sign their works) proceeds on two parallel tracks: in that of reality, an unhappy wife, afflicted by a deole husband, a dazed father and a distant daughter, must do the you deal with the daily difficulties of her laundromat and a strict tax inspector. On the other hand, the same woman, involved in a temporal rift, ends up having to fight against the colliding universes to restore serenity to the earth and also to her family. For European nostalgics there is the unmissable cameo by Jamie Lee Curtis; for lovers of Sino-American cinema a la Jackie Chan there is the return to the screen of Ke Huy Quan.
– LIFE IS A DANCE by Cédric Klapisch with Marion Barbeau, Hofesh Shechter, Denis Podalydès, Muriel Robin, Pio Marmaï, François Civil, Souheila Yacoub, Mehdi Baki, Alexia Giordano, Marion Gautier de Charnacé. Her name is Elise, she is 26 years old and is a promising ballet dancer. Her life is shattered when she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her and her accident breaks her career. Having taken refuge in solitude in Brittany, she will find the warmth of her friends, a new love and the moral strength to return to dance, despite the advice of the doctors, converting herself to contemporary dance. Klapisch has a very special sensitivity when she puts her talent for comedy at the service of the boys and here she does not betray while inclining to the sentimental apple tree. She is also the creator of an unexpected debut: in the part of Elisa there is an étoile of the Paris Opera, Marion Barbeau, beautiful and talented.
– TICKET TO PARADISE by Ol Parker with George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Billie Lourd, Lucas Bravo, Kaitlyn Dever. At least on paper, it’s the perfect cocktail for American comedy from Lubitsch onwards. Take two stars of transversal popularity, dress them up as a divorced couple who are forced to make a common front against their daughter who intends to marry without their consent. Place them against the backdrop of Bali beach dreams; sprinkle a handful of misunderstandings in sweet and sour sauce and sail towards the happy romantic ending without sweetness. Clooney and Roberts think about everything else (in great shape) and to have a good evening you can also forget that the director is not Lubitsch.
– ALMOST ORPHAN by Umberto Carteni with Riccardo Scamarcio, Vittoria Puccini, Antonio Gerardi, Grazia Schiavo, Adriano Pappalardo, Nunzia Schiano, Bebo Storti, Chiara Di Benedetto, Manuela Zero, Paolo Sassanelli, Ema Stokholma, Antonio Aiello.
They seem a perfect couple in the Milanese jet set, Costanza and Valentino, successful designers. Moreover, he softens everyone by telling that he is a self-made orphan. Too bad that he instead has a large family that runs the worst agriturismo ever in Puglia, on the verge of bankruptcy. But when, on the occasion of a birthday, his parents look for him and want him back home, Valentino will have to deal with the truth.
– HATCHING, THE FORM OF EVIL by Hanna Bergholm with Siiri Solalinna Tinja, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin.
A very young gymnast, popular at home thanks to the character her mother built for her on social media, twelve-year-old Tinja returns home one day with a strange egg that she believes is the fruit of a crow whose inflexible mother broke her neck. But she will emerge from her shell as a skeletal creature capable of killing and of being in all respects the unconscious alter ego of Tinja’s anguish. Atypical Scandinavian horror and everything to see.
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