Josh O’Connor in LA Chimera. Photo credit: Simona Pampaollona. Courtesy of Neon
In Alice Rohrwacher’s Felliniesque tragicomic adventure tale LA Chimera, an English archaeologist-turned-tomb raider named Arthur (Josh O’Connor) leads a merry band of grave robbers who plunder ancient Etruscan tombs, eking out a meager living selling the stolen artifacts to collectors. Arthur is a haunted man, mourning his lost love, and caught up in recurring memories of their last moments together.
The tomb-raiding gives LA Chimera a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe, but while Arthur appears to be a trained archaeologist, he is not working for university nor is he a professor. Instead, he is what archaeologists call a “pot-hunter” plundering archaeological sites for grave goods he can sell for profit. And this grave-robbing is by no means lucrative, as he lives in a shack he built from cast off items, in the shadow of an aqueduct,...
In Alice Rohrwacher’s Felliniesque tragicomic adventure tale LA Chimera, an English archaeologist-turned-tomb raider named Arthur (Josh O’Connor) leads a merry band of grave robbers who plunder ancient Etruscan tombs, eking out a meager living selling the stolen artifacts to collectors. Arthur is a haunted man, mourning his lost love, and caught up in recurring memories of their last moments together.
The tomb-raiding gives LA Chimera a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe, but while Arthur appears to be a trained archaeologist, he is not working for university nor is he a professor. Instead, he is what archaeologists call a “pot-hunter” plundering archaeological sites for grave goods he can sell for profit. And this grave-robbing is by no means lucrative, as he lives in a shack he built from cast off items, in the shadow of an aqueduct,...
- 4/12/2024
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Isabella Rossellini inLa Chimera(Neon), on the red carpet (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images), inBlue Velvet(De Laurentis Entertainment Group/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis)Graphic: Jimmy Hasse
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what...
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what...
- 4/8/2024
- by Brent Simon
- avclub.com
Chicago – One of the heralded auteur filmmakers of the recent decade is Alice Rohrwacher. The Italian director joins her cinema forebears like Pier Paolo Pasolini and Federico Fellini, both of which she’s been favorable compared to, in creating unique and personal stories that resonant beyond their narrative. Her latest, opening at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre on April 5th, is “La Chimera.”
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Based on her memories as a child of Italy, the term “La Chimera” represents a pursuit that individuals have in the back of their minds and their lives that they somehow find elusive. Rohrwacher puts this in the context of a petty thief and English-speaking expatriate named Arthur (Josh O’Connor), out of jail but reverting back to his skill as a tomb raider for ancient Estrucian artifacts … in the 1980s this was a mania in Italy. His gang is looking for a quick score, but he...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Based on her memories as a child of Italy, the term “La Chimera” represents a pursuit that individuals have in the back of their minds and their lives that they somehow find elusive. Rohrwacher puts this in the context of a petty thief and English-speaking expatriate named Arthur (Josh O’Connor), out of jail but reverting back to his skill as a tomb raider for ancient Estrucian artifacts … in the 1980s this was a mania in Italy. His gang is looking for a quick score, but he...
- 4/5/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
La chimera.Around 1655, a group of rural laborers were excavating a field in Norfolk, England, when they dug up a collection of ancient urns, small clay vessels filled with ashes, bones, and various grave goods: combs, tweezers, brass plates, and a blue opal, possibly once set into a ring. More than a thousand years before, this field had served as a cemetery, and if not for an agricultural accident, it would have remained unknown. The find so impressed the scholar, doctor, and writer Sir Thomas Browne that he began his 1658 Urne-Buriall with the following: “Nature hath furnished one part of the Earth, and man another. The treasures of time lie high, in Urnes, Coynes, and Monuments, scarce below the roots of some vegetables.” He marveled at the survival of these fragile vessels, which, though “in a yard underground, and thin walls of clay, [have] out-worn all the strong and specious buildings above it,...
- 3/29/2024
- MUBI
Liam Neeson crime thriller In the Land of Saints and Sinners opens on 896 screens this weekend, joined by Sean Penn in Asphalt City — the Godzilla vs. Kong of the specialty market?
Neeson reunites with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz as a newly retired assassin in a remote Irish village who finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful terrorists. Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney and Jack Gleeson also star in Land of Saints and Sinners, which premiered at Venice, and was shot in County Donegal, Ireland. Screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane. Samuel Goldwyn Films’ widest release post-pandemic sits at 80% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Penn stars with Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, Vertical’s co-release with Roadside Attractions that opens on 297 screens, also with a national footprint. Young paramedic Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is paired with seasoned partner Gene...
Neeson reunites with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz as a newly retired assassin in a remote Irish village who finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful terrorists. Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney and Jack Gleeson also star in Land of Saints and Sinners, which premiered at Venice, and was shot in County Donegal, Ireland. Screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane. Samuel Goldwyn Films’ widest release post-pandemic sits at 80% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Penn stars with Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, Vertical’s co-release with Roadside Attractions that opens on 297 screens, also with a national footprint. Young paramedic Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is paired with seasoned partner Gene...
- 3/29/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Arthur (Josh O'Connor) is not having a good day. He's just got out of prison with nothing but the clothes on his back. His former criminal gang is eager to recruit him; the person to whom he plied his trade has paid for his debts, but Arthur doesn't want anything to do with them. Moreover, he's lost his great love. But memories call from every corner, and it seems only his rare and unusual talent is all that matters in world which offers little else to keep him alive. Alice Rohrwacher returns with another feature that revisits some themes she has deftly explored in past films: memory, the invisible, and belonging. La Chimera introduces us to a world of theft,...
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- 3/28/2024
- Screen Anarchy
Gian Piero Capretto, Ramona Fiorini, Melochiorre Pala, Josh O’Connor, Luca Gargiullo, Vincenzo Nemolato, and Lou Roy LecollinetPhoto: Neon
The past is so close you can almost touch it in Alice Rohrwacher’s romantic treasure hunt, La Chimera. Set in the liminal space between living and dying, better known as the Italian countryside,...
The past is so close you can almost touch it in Alice Rohrwacher’s romantic treasure hunt, La Chimera. Set in the liminal space between living and dying, better known as the Italian countryside,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
"You've cast a spell." One of the best films from 2023! Neon has finally unveiled the official US trailer for the Italian film La Chimera, the latest from acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher. This first premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year, where I first fell in love with it, before going on to play at the Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, and New York Film Festivals. Josh O'Connor stars as Arthur, one of the key members of a band of black market bandits (known as the "Tombaroli") who dig up archeological artifacts hidden in tombs around Italy and sell them to a collector. The cast also features Isabella Rossellini, Carol Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, Vincenzo Nemolato, and Lou Roy-Lecollinet. I Adore this film and everything in it – I went to see it three times at three different festivals last year. It ended up as my #1 film of 2023 on my final Top 10 for...
- 2/6/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Arthur (Josh O'Connor) is not having a good day. He's just got out of prison with nothing but the clothes on his back. His former criminal gang is eager to recruit him; the person to whom he plied his trade has paid for his debts, but Arthur doesn't want anything to do with them. Moreover, he's lost his great love. But memories call from every corner, and it seems only his rare and unusual talent is all that matters in world which offers little else to keep him alive. Alice Rohrwacher returns with another feature that revisits some themes she has deftly explored in past films: memory, the invisible, and belonging. La Chimera introduces us to a world of theft,...
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- 9/12/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” in which “The Crown” star Josh O’Connor plays a British archeologist named Arthur who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s, has sold worldwide after premiering positively in Cannes.
The Match Factory has inked deals for the film in the U.K. and Ireland (Curzon); Australia and New Zealand (Palace Entertainement); Benelux (September Film); Germany (Piffl Medien); Hong Kong (Edko); Spain (Elastica); South Korea (M&m International); China (Jetsen); Japan (Bitters End); Taiwan (Swallow Wings); Austria (Stadtkino); Baltics (A-One); Bulgaria (Art Fest); Cis (Mauris Film); Czech Republic & Slovakia (Aerofilms); Finland (B-Plan Distribution); Denmark (Filmbazar); Former Yugoslavia (McF): Greece (Cinobo); Hungary (Cirko); Middle East and North Africa (Moving Turtle); Poland (Aurora Films); Portugal (Midas); Romania (Independenta); Singapore (Anticipate Pictures); Thailand (Documentary Club); and Ukraine (Arthouse Traffic).
As previously announced, North American rights were sold while the film was in production to Neon.
The Match Factory has inked deals for the film in the U.K. and Ireland (Curzon); Australia and New Zealand (Palace Entertainement); Benelux (September Film); Germany (Piffl Medien); Hong Kong (Edko); Spain (Elastica); South Korea (M&m International); China (Jetsen); Japan (Bitters End); Taiwan (Swallow Wings); Austria (Stadtkino); Baltics (A-One); Bulgaria (Art Fest); Cis (Mauris Film); Czech Republic & Slovakia (Aerofilms); Finland (B-Plan Distribution); Denmark (Filmbazar); Former Yugoslavia (McF): Greece (Cinobo); Hungary (Cirko); Middle East and North Africa (Moving Turtle); Poland (Aurora Films); Portugal (Midas); Romania (Independenta); Singapore (Anticipate Pictures); Thailand (Documentary Club); and Ukraine (Arthouse Traffic).
As previously announced, North American rights were sold while the film was in production to Neon.
- 6/7/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Match Factory announces key sales for tomb robber drama.
The Match Factory has agreed multiple sales for Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes Competition film La Chimera.
The tomb robber drama starring Josh O’Connor, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher and Carol Duarte was well received by critics and ranked in joint fourth place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid.
Neon acquired North America rights for La Chimera last year. Since then The Match Factory has inked deals for the film in the UK and Ireland (Curzon), Australia and New Zealand (Palace Entertainment), Benelux (September Film), Germany (Piffl Medien), Hong Kong (Edko), Spain...
The Match Factory has agreed multiple sales for Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes Competition film La Chimera.
The tomb robber drama starring Josh O’Connor, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher and Carol Duarte was well received by critics and ranked in joint fourth place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid.
Neon acquired North America rights for La Chimera last year. Since then The Match Factory has inked deals for the film in the UK and Ireland (Curzon), Australia and New Zealand (Palace Entertainment), Benelux (September Film), Germany (Piffl Medien), Hong Kong (Edko), Spain...
- 6/7/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The tombaroli are my Palme d'Or picks from 2023! One of the best films that premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival is the sensational La Chimera, the latest creation from acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (best known for her previous films The Wonders and Happy as Lazzaro). It's been five years since her last feature film, and it's worth the wait, because it's clear she puts in so much time and effort into meticulously crafting and honing these films that each one needs time to develop into something special. La Chimera is another magical realism adventure, similar to Happy as Lazzaro with plenty of fantasy elements and a vintage Italian feel, but with an entirely different story about a band of tomb raiding archeologists. It's unlike anything I've ever seen, an astoundingly original creation that can't really be compared to much else before. I've already noticed some hasty comparisons to Indiana...
- 5/29/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A Cannes mainstay since her humble beginnings in the Directors’ Fortnight section with Corpo celeste, Alice Rohrwacher quickly ascended to comp-worthy status with the Grand Prix winning The Wonders (2014) and Best Screenplay winning Lazzaro Felice (2018). She was actually on the Croisette last year with the short Le pupille (Cannes Classics) and comes with the Neon-backed project La Chimera — her third trip in competition. Starring a dirty pants, shoes and socks wearing Josh O’Connor and featuring Isabelle Rossellini in a bit role, this is a last-day miracle of a picture.
Set during the 1980s in the clandestine world of the tombaroli, or tomb robbers, La Chimera tells the story of a young English archaeologist (O’Connor) caught up in the illegal trafficking of ancient finds.…...
Set during the 1980s in the clandestine world of the tombaroli, or tomb robbers, La Chimera tells the story of a young English archaeologist (O’Connor) caught up in the illegal trafficking of ancient finds.…...
- 5/26/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Alice Rohrwacher makes movies like no one else. Her extraordinary work ventures into Italy’s labyrinthine past through fascinating pocket communities, vanishing breeds that seem suspended in time. In The Wonders, it was a family of beekeepers, like the director’s own; in Happy as Lazzaro, it was isolated sharecroppers kept in the feudal dark by exploitative landowners; and in the invigoratingly strange and lyrical La Chimera, it’s a ragtag band of tombaroli, illegal grave-robbers who dig up Etruscan relics and make their money selling those antiquities on to fences who in turn sell them to museums and collectors for vastly larger sums.
The three films make up an informal trilogy — set in the regions of Tuscany and Umbria where Rohrwacher was born and grew up — about the delicate thread between life and death, present and past. The latter remains very much alive almost everywhere you look in Italy,...
The three films make up an informal trilogy — set in the regions of Tuscany and Umbria where Rohrwacher was born and grew up — about the delicate thread between life and death, present and past. The latter remains very much alive almost everywhere you look in Italy,...
- 5/26/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera absolutely charmed the Cannes Film Festival audience at its world premiere in competition this afternoon, receiving a 9-minute standing ovation inside the Palais’ Lumière theater. For those keeping score, that ties for the longest of this year’s event with Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon which played out of competition.
An emotional Rohrwacher spoke in both Italian and French. Her first comment was “Grazie a tutti” in her native language before segueing to French and recounting that the film was made among friends. She continued, “This film couldn’t have been done without everybody who is here and especially Josh O’Connor.” The two then shared an embrace.
Alice Rohrwacher gives a speech post-9 minute standing ovation in #Cannes for her film ‘La Chimera’ pic.twitter.com/QfuBNSgOAF
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) May 26, 2023
La Chimera, as Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote in his review,...
An emotional Rohrwacher spoke in both Italian and French. Her first comment was “Grazie a tutti” in her native language before segueing to French and recounting that the film was made among friends. She continued, “This film couldn’t have been done without everybody who is here and especially Josh O’Connor.” The two then shared an embrace.
Alice Rohrwacher gives a speech post-9 minute standing ovation in #Cannes for her film ‘La Chimera’ pic.twitter.com/QfuBNSgOAF
— Deadline Hollywood (@Deadline) May 26, 2023
La Chimera, as Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote in his review,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
A Chimera is something one tries to achieve but alas, never manages to find. It is the heart and soul of a quest in life, in different ways, for the cast of characters in writer/director Alice Rohrwacher’s beautiful new film La Chimera premiering today as one of the last entries in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. It also happens to be one of the best.
Rohrwacher, who has won prizes at Cannes for two previous films, 2014’s The Wonders (Grand Prix) and 2018’s Happy As Lazaro (Screenplay) and was nominated for an Oscar this year for her live action short Le Pupille,, is back with what I think is her best film yet, an adventure, an ethereal and spiritual journey, a love story even on different levels, and a heist movie like no other. The latter refers to the center of action here as it is set...
Rohrwacher, who has won prizes at Cannes for two previous films, 2014’s The Wonders (Grand Prix) and 2018’s Happy As Lazaro (Screenplay) and was nominated for an Oscar this year for her live action short Le Pupille,, is back with what I think is her best film yet, an adventure, an ethereal and spiritual journey, a love story even on different levels, and a heist movie like no other. The latter refers to the center of action here as it is set...
- 5/26/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Editor’s Note: This review originally published during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Neon will release “La Chimera” in theaters March 29, 2024.
Just when it seemed like Cannes couldn’t get any worse for “Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny,” it turns out that James Mangold’s $300 million sequel wasn’t even the festival’s best movie about a sad and grumpy archeologist who chases a band of tomb raiders across the waters of Italy in order to stop them from selfishly exploiting a priceless artifact from before the birth of Christ. What are the odds?
Strange as that coincidence might be, it’s no surprise that Alice Rohrwacher’s new film is better than a Disney blockbuster that happens to share the same general milieu, but it’s worth pointing out that the arthouse version of this story is far more entertaining than the studio blockbuster take. It’s also...
Just when it seemed like Cannes couldn’t get any worse for “Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny,” it turns out that James Mangold’s $300 million sequel wasn’t even the festival’s best movie about a sad and grumpy archeologist who chases a band of tomb raiders across the waters of Italy in order to stop them from selfishly exploiting a priceless artifact from before the birth of Christ. What are the odds?
Strange as that coincidence might be, it’s no surprise that Alice Rohrwacher’s new film is better than a Disney blockbuster that happens to share the same general milieu, but it’s worth pointing out that the arthouse version of this story is far more entertaining than the studio blockbuster take. It’s also...
- 5/26/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
In less than 10 years, Alice Rohrwacher has carved out a formidable reputation for herself, notably by gatecrashing the boys’ club that is traditionally the Cannes competition, and the fact that she did so in 2014 with only her second film, The Wonders, is further proof of a distinctive talent. One competition slot doesn’t guarantee another, yet Rohrwacher was back in 2018 with the follow-up, Happy as Lazzaro. Both films won prizes — Grand Prix and Best Screenplay, respectively — which means that expectations are high for the Oscar-nominated 41-year-old Italian, whose new film, La chimera, makes it three in a row.
Deadline: What can you reveal to us about La chimera?
Alice Rohrwacher: Nothing! [Laughs] It’s very difficult to talk about the film when you have not seen it, but I can tell you that it’s the story of a group of grave robbers. We call them tombaroli in Italy, and...
Deadline: What can you reveal to us about La chimera?
Alice Rohrwacher: Nothing! [Laughs] It’s very difficult to talk about the film when you have not seen it, but I can tell you that it’s the story of a group of grave robbers. We call them tombaroli in Italy, and...
- 5/26/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Italian film legend Isabella Rossellini took a break from the tour of her one-woman theater show Darwin’s Smile, to attend this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where she’s among the stars of La Chimera, the highly anticipated new film from Alice Rohrwacher.
The young Italian director, hot off her Oscar nomination in the best live-action short category for The Pupils, has been a Cannes favorite since her 2014 feature The Wonders took the festival Grand Prix. Her 2018 follow-up Happy as Lazzaro won the best screenplay honor.
In the new film, Rossellini plays the mother of the dead lover of Arthur, a black-market archaeologist, played by The Crown star Josh O’Connor, switching between English and Italian throughout the film.
THR Roma caught up with Rossellini ahead of the film’s Cannes premiere to discuss the film, her connection and how she and Rohrwacher (the daughter of a beekeeper) bonded over...
The young Italian director, hot off her Oscar nomination in the best live-action short category for The Pupils, has been a Cannes favorite since her 2014 feature The Wonders took the festival Grand Prix. Her 2018 follow-up Happy as Lazzaro won the best screenplay honor.
In the new film, Rossellini plays the mother of the dead lover of Arthur, a black-market archaeologist, played by The Crown star Josh O’Connor, switching between English and Italian throughout the film.
THR Roma caught up with Rossellini ahead of the film’s Cannes premiere to discuss the film, her connection and how she and Rohrwacher (the daughter of a beekeeper) bonded over...
- 5/25/2023
- by Antonio Monda
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Alice Rohrwacher is in the Cannes competition for the third time with “La Chimera,” in which “The Crown” star Josh O’Connor plays a young British archeologist named Arthur who gets involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts during the 1980s.
For Rohrwacher, the film is connected to growing up in Umbria, once the center of the Etruscan civilization. But it’s also the final piece of a triptych on a territory that she started with her previous Cannes entries: “The Wonders” and “Happy as Lazzaro.” Three works that, as she has put it, pose a central question: “What to do with the past?”
Also starring in “La Chimera,” which can be loosely translated as “The Unrealizable Dream,” are Isabella Rossellini as a retired opera singer; Brazil’s Carol Duarte (“The Invisible Life”) as non-Italian woman who intersects with Arthur; Alba Rohrwacher as an international artifacts trafficker; and Vincenzo Nemolato...
For Rohrwacher, the film is connected to growing up in Umbria, once the center of the Etruscan civilization. But it’s also the final piece of a triptych on a territory that she started with her previous Cannes entries: “The Wonders” and “Happy as Lazzaro.” Three works that, as she has put it, pose a central question: “What to do with the past?”
Also starring in “La Chimera,” which can be loosely translated as “The Unrealizable Dream,” are Isabella Rossellini as a retired opera singer; Brazil’s Carol Duarte (“The Invisible Life”) as non-Italian woman who intersects with Arthur; Alba Rohrwacher as an international artifacts trafficker; and Vincenzo Nemolato...
- 5/23/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Alice Rohrwacher on Working With Her Sister: ‘We Always Tell Each Other the Truth, Even If It Hurts’
Having won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for “Le Meraviglie” (The Wonders) in 2014, and the screenplay award there for “Lazzaro Felice” (Happy as Lazzaro) in 2018, Alice Rohrwacher is very pleased that her latest feature, “La Chimera,” starring Isabella Rossellini, Josh O’Connor and her sister Alba Rohrwacher, will also compete at the festival.
“I am very attached to the Cannes festival, both as a spectator and as a director. It is always a dream and always a surprise to be nominated. The emotion is the same as the first time,” the Italian director tells Variety at Visions du Réel film festival, in Nyon, Switzerland, where she is a special guest.
Rohrwacher describes “La Chimera” as “a film that, in a very special way, talks about our relationship with the afterlife by following the story of a man who belongs to a gang of archaeological thieves.”
Working with Alba Rohrwacher,...
“I am very attached to the Cannes festival, both as a spectator and as a director. It is always a dream and always a surprise to be nominated. The emotion is the same as the first time,” the Italian director tells Variety at Visions du Réel film festival, in Nyon, Switzerland, where she is a special guest.
Rohrwacher describes “La Chimera” as “a film that, in a very special way, talks about our relationship with the afterlife by following the story of a man who belongs to a gang of archaeological thieves.”
Working with Alba Rohrwacher,...
- 4/27/2023
- by Trinidad Barleycorn
- Variety Film + TV
The Italian director, who will be in Cannes with ‘La Chimera’ hosted a wide-ranging masterclass at Visions du Reel.
In the final days of the Geneva edit of her fourth fiction feature La Chimera, set for Cannes Competition, Italian director Alice Rohrwacher sat down at Visions du Reel for an expansive look at her career to date.
Her recent filmography includes an Oscar-nominated short film (The Pupils in 2022), a documentary and signing on for two episodes of a large-budget HBO TV show (My Brilliant Friend). They follow the loosely-connected, occasionally-autographical features which have dazzled audiences, from Corpo Celeste to The Wonders and Happy As Lazzaro.
In the final days of the Geneva edit of her fourth fiction feature La Chimera, set for Cannes Competition, Italian director Alice Rohrwacher sat down at Visions du Reel for an expansive look at her career to date.
Her recent filmography includes an Oscar-nominated short film (The Pupils in 2022), a documentary and signing on for two episodes of a large-budget HBO TV show (My Brilliant Friend). They follow the loosely-connected, occasionally-autographical features which have dazzled audiences, from Corpo Celeste to The Wonders and Happy As Lazzaro.
- 4/24/2023
- by Fionnuala Halligan
- ScreenDaily
The Italian director, who will be in Cannes with ‘La Chimera’ hosted a wide-ranging masterclass at Visions du Reel.
In the final days of the Geneva edit of her fourth fiction feature La Chimera, set for Cannes Competition, Italian director Alice Rohrwacher sat down at Visions du Reel for an expansive look at her career to date.
Her recent filmography includes an Oscar-nominated short film (The Pupils in 2022), a documentary and signing on for two episodes of a large-budget HBO TV show (My Brilliant Friend). They follow the loosely-connected, occasionally-autographical features which have dazzled audiences, from Corpo Celeste to The Wonders and Happy As Lazzaro.
In the final days of the Geneva edit of her fourth fiction feature La Chimera, set for Cannes Competition, Italian director Alice Rohrwacher sat down at Visions du Reel for an expansive look at her career to date.
Her recent filmography includes an Oscar-nominated short film (The Pupils in 2022), a documentary and signing on for two episodes of a large-budget HBO TV show (My Brilliant Friend). They follow the loosely-connected, occasionally-autographical features which have dazzled audiences, from Corpo Celeste to The Wonders and Happy As Lazzaro.
- 4/24/2023
- by Fionnuala Halligan
- ScreenDaily
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including a Béla Tarr double bill, with new 4K restorations of Damnation and Sátántangó, Léa Mysius’ The Five Devils, Radu Jude’s short The Potemkinists, and Kira Kovalenko’s Unclenching the Fists.
They will also present a series on past Cannes Film Festival selections with films by Abderrahmane Sissako, Alice Rohrwacher, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Jeremy Saulnier, and more. Ana Vaz’s The Age of Stone and most recent work It is Night in America will arrive on the service, plus a Merchant Ivory series.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
May 1 – Blind Spot, directed by Claudia von Alemann | What Sets Us Free? German Feminist Cinema
May 2 – Heat and Dust, directed by James Ivory | Gilded Passions: Films by Merchant Ivory
May 3 – Damnation, directed by Béla Tarr | Béla Tarr: A Double Bill
May 4 – The Bostonians, directed by...
They will also present a series on past Cannes Film Festival selections with films by Abderrahmane Sissako, Alice Rohrwacher, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Jeremy Saulnier, and more. Ana Vaz’s The Age of Stone and most recent work It is Night in America will arrive on the service, plus a Merchant Ivory series.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
May 1 – Blind Spot, directed by Claudia von Alemann | What Sets Us Free? German Feminist Cinema
May 2 – Heat and Dust, directed by James Ivory | Gilded Passions: Films by Merchant Ivory
May 3 – Damnation, directed by Béla Tarr | Béla Tarr: A Double Bill
May 4 – The Bostonians, directed by...
- 4/21/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Italian filmmaker will attend the festival as a special guest.
Alice Rohrwacher will attend the 2023 Visions du Reel film festival in Switzerland as a special guest.
Italian writer, director and editor Rohrwacher will give a masterclass on Saturday, April 22 about her films. She will also present a retrospective of her fiction, hybrid and documentary work at the festival.
Rohrwacher’s first fiction film Corpo Celeste debuted in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2011, going on to play festivals including Sundance, New York and the BFI London Film Festival. She has since returned to Cannes with 2014’s The Wonders, 2018’s Happy As Lazzaro and 2021 documentary Futura.
Alice Rohrwacher will attend the 2023 Visions du Reel film festival in Switzerland as a special guest.
Italian writer, director and editor Rohrwacher will give a masterclass on Saturday, April 22 about her films. She will also present a retrospective of her fiction, hybrid and documentary work at the festival.
Rohrwacher’s first fiction film Corpo Celeste debuted in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2011, going on to play festivals including Sundance, New York and the BFI London Film Festival. She has since returned to Cannes with 2014’s The Wonders, 2018’s Happy As Lazzaro and 2021 documentary Futura.
- 3/3/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
When Alfonso Cuarón hit the awards campaign trail for “Roma” in 2019, he turned it into a larger mission. “I grew up watching foreign-language films,” the Mexican filmmaker said as he won the Oscar for a category then known as Best Foreign Language Film, and his speech went on to cite movies like “The Godfather and “Citizen Kane” as examples.
Message received: The next year, the Oscars went global. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said adieu to the word “foreign” and changed the name of the category for Best International Feature Film. A few months later, “Parasite” became the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture. While the Academy continues to work on globalizing the Oscar race, Cuarón’s own crusade to support non-English language cinema continues as executive producer of nominee“Le Pupile.”
Cuarón played a critical role in garnering Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher her first nomination this year.
Message received: The next year, the Oscars went global. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said adieu to the word “foreign” and changed the name of the category for Best International Feature Film. A few months later, “Parasite” became the first non-English language movie to win Best Picture. While the Academy continues to work on globalizing the Oscar race, Cuarón’s own crusade to support non-English language cinema continues as executive producer of nominee“Le Pupile.”
Cuarón played a critical role in garnering Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher her first nomination this year.
- 3/1/2023
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize and easily among the top films at this year’s Berlinale, Lila Avilés‘ sophomore feature Tótem had already racked up tons of world sales and now just before its North American premiere at the New Directors/New Films, the Sideshow and Janus Films folks swopped in for North American rights. Variety reports that the film will be released later in the year – positioning it as Mexico’s possible entry for the Oscars. We were especially big on the film with our Nicholas Bell comparing the four star film to Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders and Taiwan master filmmaker –
“Avilés injects an unexpected amount of observational humor while also channeling something like Edward Yang’s Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000), where a child’s awareness in the situation of caring for a loved one is limited by their lack of worldly comprehension.”…
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“Avilés injects an unexpected amount of observational humor while also channeling something like Edward Yang’s Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000), where a child’s awareness in the situation of caring for a loved one is limited by their lack of worldly comprehension.”…
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- 2/28/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
In the delightfully mischievous short film Le Pupille, which earned Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher her first Oscar nomination, a rebellion is brewing within the confines of a Catholic girls’ school in Italy on a chilly Christmas Eve in the midst of World War II.
Young Serafina (Melissa Falasconi) attracts the ire of Sister Fioralba (Alba Rohrwacher, the director’s sister), the stern mother superior who rules her boarding school with an iron fist and steely gaze. As the schoolgirls prepare for the evening’s festivities — stoically re-creating the Nativity — they listen to a radio report that offers somber news from the battlefield. But when Serafina accidentally changes the station, inadvertently filling the hall with the sounds of a love song with a lyric like “kiss me on my little mouth,” the girls erupt into song and dance and, as punishment for their jubilant misbehavior, are rewarded with mouthfuls of soap...
Young Serafina (Melissa Falasconi) attracts the ire of Sister Fioralba (Alba Rohrwacher, the director’s sister), the stern mother superior who rules her boarding school with an iron fist and steely gaze. As the schoolgirls prepare for the evening’s festivities — stoically re-creating the Nativity — they listen to a radio report that offers somber news from the battlefield. But when Serafina accidentally changes the station, inadvertently filling the hall with the sounds of a love song with a lyric like “kiss me on my little mouth,” the girls erupt into song and dance and, as punishment for their jubilant misbehavior, are rewarded with mouthfuls of soap...
- 2/25/2023
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“I wanted to create a film that was out of time,” Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher says about her Oscar-nominated live action short, Disney+ Original Films’ Le Pupille. “That was classic, but also hand-made.”
Rohrwacher and the film’s producer, Oscar winner Alfonso Curarón, joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event to discuss their 37-minute film.
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Indeed, there’s a touching throwback quality to the short, which is set at an all-girls Catholic orphanage during wartime 1940s. The nuns led by Madre Superiora Fiorabla (played by the director’s sister and longtime...
Rohrwacher and the film’s producer, Oscar winner Alfonso Curarón, joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event to discuss their 37-minute film.
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Indeed, there’s a touching throwback quality to the short, which is set at an all-girls Catholic orphanage during wartime 1940s. The nuns led by Madre Superiora Fiorabla (played by the director’s sister and longtime...
- 2/18/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Harry’s House has found a new home on the 65th Annual Grammy Awards stage.
British singer Harry Styles will perform during the ceremony’s broadcast on Sunday, Feb. 5 at 8 pm Et/5 pm Pt (and streamed live on Paramount+).
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British singer Harry Styles will perform during the ceremony’s broadcast on Sunday, Feb. 5 at 8 pm Et/5 pm Pt (and streamed live on Paramount+).
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Styles is nominated for six Grammy Awards: Album of the Year (“Harry’s House”), Record of...
- 1/30/2023
- by Erianne Lewis
- TVLine.com
The five nominees for this year’s Best Live Action Short Oscar have been announced. We at Gold Derby understand that this can be one of the tougher categories to predict, so we wanted to give you all a hand by telling you what each one is about and where you can currently watch them. Be sure to bookmark this page as we will be updating it with links to stream them as they become available. Also, don’t forget to make your predictions in all 23 categories in our infamous predictions center.
As a reminder, the last four winners in this category were “The Long Goodbye” (2021), “Two Distant Strangers” (2020), “The Neighbor’s Window” (2019) and “Skin” (2018).
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“An Irish Goodbye” – When their mother suddenly dies, two estranged brothers find themselves reunited...
As a reminder, the last four winners in this category were “The Long Goodbye” (2021), “Two Distant Strangers” (2020), “The Neighbor’s Window” (2019) and “Skin” (2018).
See 2023 Oscar nominations: Full list of nominees in all 23 categories
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“An Irish Goodbye” – When their mother suddenly dies, two estranged brothers find themselves reunited...
- 1/25/2023
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
The world premieres of Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” and Sebastian Lelio’s “The Wonder” will take place at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival, which announced its lineup on Thursday, one day before the festival begins.
Other notable films in the Telluride lineup include Alejandro G. Inarritu’s “Bardo,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” Todd Field’s “TÁR” and James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” which are making their North American debuts after premiering at European festivals.
Among the documentaries heading to Telluride, premieres are Steve James’ “A Compassionate Spy,” Anton Corbijn’s “Squaring the Circle,” Ryan White’s “Good Night Oppy,” Mary McCartney’s “If These Walls Could Sing” and Eva Webber’s “Merkel.”
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Other notable films in the Telluride lineup include Alejandro G. Inarritu’s “Bardo,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” Todd Field’s “TÁR” and James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” which are making their North American debuts after premiering at European festivals.
Among the documentaries heading to Telluride, premieres are Steve James’ “A Compassionate Spy,” Anton Corbijn’s “Squaring the Circle,” Ryan White’s “Good Night Oppy,” Mary McCartney’s “If These Walls Could Sing” and Eva Webber’s “Merkel.”
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- 9/1/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Bengaluru, March 9 (Ians) US-based tech majors Nvidia and VMware on Tuesday announced a collaboration to virtualise Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads on VMware vSphere with Nvidia AI Enterprise.
Nvidia unveiled AI Enterprise, a comprehensive software suite of enterprise-grade AI tools and frameworks, exclusively with VMware.
The offering gives enterprises the software required to develop a broad range of AI solutions, such as advanced diagnostics in healthcare, smart factories for manufacturing, and fraud detection in financial services.
"Nvidia AI Enterprise enables customers to reduce AI model development time from 80 weeks to just eight weeks, and allows them to deploy and manage advanced AI applications on VMware vSphere with the same scale-out, record-breaking Nvidia accelerated computing performance that's possible on bare metal," Justin Boitano, VP and General Manager of Enterprise and Edge Computing at Nvidia, said in a statement.
With the Nvidia AI Enterprise software suite, It professionals at the hundreds of thousands...
Nvidia unveiled AI Enterprise, a comprehensive software suite of enterprise-grade AI tools and frameworks, exclusively with VMware.
The offering gives enterprises the software required to develop a broad range of AI solutions, such as advanced diagnostics in healthcare, smart factories for manufacturing, and fraud detection in financial services.
"Nvidia AI Enterprise enables customers to reduce AI model development time from 80 weeks to just eight weeks, and allows them to deploy and manage advanced AI applications on VMware vSphere with the same scale-out, record-breaking Nvidia accelerated computing performance that's possible on bare metal," Justin Boitano, VP and General Manager of Enterprise and Edge Computing at Nvidia, said in a statement.
With the Nvidia AI Enterprise software suite, It professionals at the hundreds of thousands...
- 3/9/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Corpo Celeste (Heavenly Body), Le Meravigile (The Wonders) and Lazzaro Felice (Happy As Lazzaro) director/screenwriter Alice Rohrwacher with Alba Rohrwacher Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Cannes Best Screenplay winner Happy As Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice), shot by Hélène Louvart, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, and starring Adriano Tardiolo with Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani, Agnese Graziani, David Bennent, Nicoletta Braschi, Sergi López, and Tommaso Ragno, was the opening night film in The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher, organised by Museum of Modern Art Department of Film Curator Josh Siegel with Camilla Cormanni and Paola Ruggiero of Luce Cinecittà.
Alice Rohrwacher with Alba Rohrwacher: “I think fairy tales were very important for us. Especially the collection of Italian folktales done by Italo Calvino.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The casting of David Bennent (Volker Schlöndorff’s adaptation of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum), the magic of Italo Calvino (Italian Folktales), Astrid Lindgren, Angela Carter (The...
Cannes Best Screenplay winner Happy As Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice), shot by Hélène Louvart, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, and starring Adriano Tardiolo with Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani, Agnese Graziani, David Bennent, Nicoletta Braschi, Sergi López, and Tommaso Ragno, was the opening night film in The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher, organised by Museum of Modern Art Department of Film Curator Josh Siegel with Camilla Cormanni and Paola Ruggiero of Luce Cinecittà.
Alice Rohrwacher with Alba Rohrwacher: “I think fairy tales were very important for us. Especially the collection of Italian folktales done by Italo Calvino.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The casting of David Bennent (Volker Schlöndorff’s adaptation of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum), the magic of Italo Calvino (Italian Folktales), Astrid Lindgren, Angela Carter (The...
- 12/22/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art with Istituto Luce Cinecittà’s Camilla Cormanni, Alice Rohrwacher, and Alba Rohrwacher Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Istituto Luce Cinecittà opening night reception for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Julian Schnabel circulated through the crowd, Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker chatted with Magari (If Only) director Ginevra Elkann and Rome Film Festival Artistic Director and Le Conversazioni founder Antonio Monda held court.
Alba Rohrwacher on Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders: “I can say it's my life, but from her point of view.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is only one actress linked to Gianni Zanasi’s Troppa Grazia (Lucia’s Grace); Giorgio Diritti’s L’Uomo Che Verrà (The Man Who Will Come); Luca Guadagnino’s Lo Sono L’Amore (I Am Love) and Part...
At the Istituto Luce Cinecittà opening night reception for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Julian Schnabel circulated through the crowd, Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker chatted with Magari (If Only) director Ginevra Elkann and Rome Film Festival Artistic Director and Le Conversazioni founder Antonio Monda held court.
Alba Rohrwacher on Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders: “I can say it's my life, but from her point of view.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is only one actress linked to Gianni Zanasi’s Troppa Grazia (Lucia’s Grace); Giorgio Diritti’s L’Uomo Che Verrà (The Man Who Will Come); Luca Guadagnino’s Lo Sono L’Amore (I Am Love) and Part...
- 12/8/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Alba Rohrwacher on Adam Driver and Saverio Costanzo during the filming of Hungry Hearts in New York: “We were like dancers, because the director was also the Dp. He was always with us. And we dance in this kind of nightmare where the characters are.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Before I met with Alice Rohrwacher, the director of Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice), The Wonders (Le Meravigile) and Corpo Celeste (Heavenly Body) which are all screening in The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Alba Rohrwacher the director’s sister and star, joined me for a lively conversation on her career.
Isabella Rossellini cracks up Saverio Costanzo and Alba Rohrwacher Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
First up was her starring role opposite Adam Driver in Saverio Costanzo’s comedy of metaphors, Hungry Hearts, which takes a Roman Polanski Rosemary’s Baby turn. Next up, Arnaud Desplechin, whose...
Before I met with Alice Rohrwacher, the director of Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice), The Wonders (Le Meravigile) and Corpo Celeste (Heavenly Body) which are all screening in The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Alba Rohrwacher the director’s sister and star, joined me for a lively conversation on her career.
Isabella Rossellini cracks up Saverio Costanzo and Alba Rohrwacher Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
First up was her starring role opposite Adam Driver in Saverio Costanzo’s comedy of metaphors, Hungry Hearts, which takes a Roman Polanski Rosemary’s Baby turn. Next up, Arnaud Desplechin, whose...
- 12/6/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Alice Rohrwacher with Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Before the start of The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher, organised by Museum of Modern Art Department of Film Curator Josh Siegel with Camilla Cormanni and Paola Ruggiero of Luce Cinecittà, Alice Rohrwacher, the director/screenwriter of the 2018 Cannes Best Screenplay winner Happy As Lazzaro (shared with Jafar Panahi and Nader Saeivar for Three Faces), met with me inside MoMA’s Cullman building, while the first snow of the season fell on the streets of Manhattan. Just as in her 2014 Cannes Grand Prix winner, The Wonders (Le Meravigile), her sister Alba Rohrwacher is a strong presence in Lazzaro. Alice’s first feature Corpo Celeste (Heavenly Body) had also been selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) with Tancredi (Luca Chikovani)
Happy As Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice), shot by Hélène Louvart,...
Before the start of The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher, organised by Museum of Modern Art Department of Film Curator Josh Siegel with Camilla Cormanni and Paola Ruggiero of Luce Cinecittà, Alice Rohrwacher, the director/screenwriter of the 2018 Cannes Best Screenplay winner Happy As Lazzaro (shared with Jafar Panahi and Nader Saeivar for Three Faces), met with me inside MoMA’s Cullman building, while the first snow of the season fell on the streets of Manhattan. Just as in her 2014 Cannes Grand Prix winner, The Wonders (Le Meravigile), her sister Alba Rohrwacher is a strong presence in Lazzaro. Alice’s first feature Corpo Celeste (Heavenly Body) had also been selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Lazzaro (Adriano Tardiolo) with Tancredi (Luca Chikovani)
Happy As Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice), shot by Hélène Louvart,...
- 12/4/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Guillaume Nicloux, the French director of “Valley of Love,” is set to preside over the jury of the Arcs Film Festival, while the iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) will be the patron of the second edition of the Talent Village.
Created last year, the Talent Village is a development workshop and platform for emerging talents aimed at helping them make their feature debut. Huppert will succeed to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (“The Hunt”) who was the patron of the inaugural edition.
The festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, will also launch the Cinema Green Lab. Along the lines of its workshop program and award for women filmmakers, the Arcs festival will be hosting screenings of environment-themed movies, workshops discussing eco-friendly initiatives in the film industry, as well as panel discussions about ways to tackle these topics in fiction.
The Arcs fest will also hand out an award...
Created last year, the Talent Village is a development workshop and platform for emerging talents aimed at helping them make their feature debut. Huppert will succeed to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (“The Hunt”) who was the patron of the inaugural edition.
The festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, will also launch the Cinema Green Lab. Along the lines of its workshop program and award for women filmmakers, the Arcs festival will be hosting screenings of environment-themed movies, workshops discussing eco-friendly initiatives in the film industry, as well as panel discussions about ways to tackle these topics in fiction.
The Arcs fest will also hand out an award...
- 10/22/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
In “Mermaids,” a 2014 three-minute short from Lugano-based Klaudia Reynicke, some conventionally beautiful young women practice hand gestures before an underwater show where they’ll perform as mermaids. Older women cleaners look on.
Cut to the show, with a mermaid swimming across a tank. Then, after a cloud of bubbles, a second mermaid appears, performing underwater cartwheels, who looks like one of the far more fulsomely-bodied cleaners.
Reynicke’s second feature “Love Me Tender” world premiered at Locarno Aug. 9, and segues to Toronto’s Discovery section.
It’s a Swiss movie, produced out of its southern region of Ticino. But Reynicke was born in Peru, spent her early adulthood in Florida – where she retained to shoot “Mermaids” – studied at the New York Tisch School of Arts, has lived for the last eight years in Lugano, Italy.
Is she a rising star of Ticino Swiss filmmaking? Or a member of Peru’s burgeoning film-tv generation?...
Cut to the show, with a mermaid swimming across a tank. Then, after a cloud of bubbles, a second mermaid appears, performing underwater cartwheels, who looks like one of the far more fulsomely-bodied cleaners.
Reynicke’s second feature “Love Me Tender” world premiered at Locarno Aug. 9, and segues to Toronto’s Discovery section.
It’s a Swiss movie, produced out of its southern region of Ticino. But Reynicke was born in Peru, spent her early adulthood in Florida – where she retained to shoot “Mermaids” – studied at the New York Tisch School of Arts, has lived for the last eight years in Lugano, Italy.
Is she a rising star of Ticino Swiss filmmaking? Or a member of Peru’s burgeoning film-tv generation?...
- 8/9/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — A co-producer on Dutch comedy-thriller “El azul bajo sus pies” (“Beyond the Blue Bridge”), Spain’s Tourmalet Films is preparing its biggest feature yet, “Siete Picos,” as it introduces “Killing Crabs” at Locarno’s Match Me! co-production forum.
Launched in 2011, the Madrid and Tenerife-based independent film house Tourmalet broke through two years later co-producing of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s noteworthy feature debut “Stockholm.”
Managed by Mayi Gutiérrez Cobo, Omar Razzak, Manuel Arango and Daniel Remón, Tourmalet has produced eight feature films and nine shorts, which have played in festivals such as Montreal, Málaga, Cartagena de Indias and Visions du Reel.
The company’s production model is evolving towards increasingly larger budget titles. It started producing short-films, then documentaries -the first, Razzak’s 2013 debut “Paradiso,” about the last porn cinema in Madrid, was an hybrid docu-fiction; followed by Samuel Alarcón’s “Oscuro y lucientes,” a docu feature about research into Francisco de Goya’s skull.
Launched in 2011, the Madrid and Tenerife-based independent film house Tourmalet broke through two years later co-producing of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s noteworthy feature debut “Stockholm.”
Managed by Mayi Gutiérrez Cobo, Omar Razzak, Manuel Arango and Daniel Remón, Tourmalet has produced eight feature films and nine shorts, which have played in festivals such as Montreal, Málaga, Cartagena de Indias and Visions du Reel.
The company’s production model is evolving towards increasingly larger budget titles. It started producing short-films, then documentaries -the first, Razzak’s 2013 debut “Paradiso,” about the last porn cinema in Madrid, was an hybrid docu-fiction; followed by Samuel Alarcón’s “Oscuro y lucientes,” a docu feature about research into Francisco de Goya’s skull.
- 8/9/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Rome-based Summerside Intl. has acquired international sales rights to Klaudia Reynicke’s “Love Me Tender.”
The second feature from Peru-born and Switzerland-based filmmaker will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Festival in its Filmmakers of the Present competition, which focuses on first and second features.
Summerside Intl. is the world sales agent, excluding and Lichtenstein and Switzerland. The film, also written by Reynicke, will be distributed in Switzerland by First Hand Films.
“Love Me Tender” is produced by Tiziana Soudani, Muchela Pini and Gabriella De Gara at the Ticino-based Amka Films, founded by Soudani in 1988. Its credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s 2018 Cannes Festival best screenplay winner “Happy as Lazzaro” and 2014’s “The Wonders” which took a Cannes Grand Jury Prize, as well as Silvio Soldini’s “Bread and Tulips,” a big box office hit which swept nine David di Donatello awards.
Italian-language Swiss public broadcaster Rsi Radiotelevisione Svizzera co-produces.
The second feature from Peru-born and Switzerland-based filmmaker will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Festival in its Filmmakers of the Present competition, which focuses on first and second features.
Summerside Intl. is the world sales agent, excluding and Lichtenstein and Switzerland. The film, also written by Reynicke, will be distributed in Switzerland by First Hand Films.
“Love Me Tender” is produced by Tiziana Soudani, Muchela Pini and Gabriella De Gara at the Ticino-based Amka Films, founded by Soudani in 1988. Its credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s 2018 Cannes Festival best screenplay winner “Happy as Lazzaro” and 2014’s “The Wonders” which took a Cannes Grand Jury Prize, as well as Silvio Soldini’s “Bread and Tulips,” a big box office hit which swept nine David di Donatello awards.
Italian-language Swiss public broadcaster Rsi Radiotelevisione Svizzera co-produces.
- 7/23/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The increasing divide between the secular and ultra-religious in Israeli society would seem to provide the opportunity for compelling drama. Unfortunately, veteran director Avi Nesher (The Wonders, The Matchmaker) squanders that opportunity with his latest effort. Diluting its powerful themes with overcooked melodrama and unnecessarily distracting subplots, The Other Story would have benefited from a simpler, more direct approach. The film, a box office hit in its native country, is now receiving a theatrical release on our shores.
The central storyline involves the impending marriage between two young people in Jerusalem who have both abandoned their hedonistic lives to embrace Orthodox Judaism: Shahar ...
The central storyline involves the impending marriage between two young people in Jerusalem who have both abandoned their hedonistic lives to embrace Orthodox Judaism: Shahar ...
- 6/26/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The increasing divide between the secular and ultra-religious in Israeli society would seem to provide the opportunity for compelling drama. Unfortunately, veteran director Avi Nesher (The Wonders, The Matchmaker) squanders that opportunity with his latest effort. Diluting its powerful themes with overcooked melodrama and unnecessarily distracting subplots, The Other Story would have benefited from a simpler, more direct approach. The film, a box office hit in its native country, is now receiving a theatrical release on our shores.
The central storyline involves the impending marriage between two young people in Jerusalem who have both abandoned their hedonistic lives to embrace Orthodox Judaism: Shahar ...
The central storyline involves the impending marriage between two young people in Jerusalem who have both abandoned their hedonistic lives to embrace Orthodox Judaism: Shahar ...
- 6/26/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Family disputes and conspiracies take center stage in “The Other Story,” veteran helmer Avi Nesher’s lively drama exploring a hot button issue: the divide between Israel’s secular Jews and the ultra-Orthodox. The fluid narrative plays out against the backdrop of a Jerusalem riven by multiple conflicts as two dysfunctional families separately arrive at an understanding of what is important in life and are ultimately able to dial back their desire to deal in inflexible absolutes. Like Nesher’s other features of the past decade this smartly cast and smoothly directed drama involves an investigation. It’s a neat script ploy that allows loyalties to shift, revelations to surface and hidden agendas to appear, while keeping the action pacey and the audience guessing. After breaking box office records in Israel, Nesher’s entertaining 18th film will start its theatrical rollout on both coasts through Strand Releasing.
Actually, “The Other Story” boasts multiple investigations.
Actually, “The Other Story” boasts multiple investigations.
- 6/24/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
"Why are we interfering in her life?" Strand Releasing has debuted an official trailer for an Israeli familial drama titled The Other Story, the latest from veteran Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher. Strand describes it: "Strong female protagonists have been the mainstay of many Avi Nesher films. In The Other Story, two rebellious young women – one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith; the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom – cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem, to startling consequences." The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. Starring Sasson Gabai, Joy Rieger, Yuval Segal, Maya Dagan, & Maayan Bloom. View below. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Avi Nesher's The Other Story, direct from Strand's YouTube: Two rebellious young Israeli women – one who is fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism ...
- 5/14/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rich pedigree of Cannes regulars, prize-winners among panel.
A prestigious gender-balanced group of jurors will join previously announced president Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu on the Cannes Film Festival’s Competition jury.
Joining Iñárritu on the panel are filmmakers Paweł Pawlikowski, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kelly Reichardt (Us), Alice Rohrwacher, and Robin Campillo (France), as well as actor Elle Fanning (Us), actor-director Maimouna N’Diaye (Burkina Faso), and graphic novel author and director Enki Bilal (France).
Pawlikowski’s Cold War screened in Competition last year when it earned the best director prize, and went on to receive foreign language and directing Oscar nods earlier this year.
A prestigious gender-balanced group of jurors will join previously announced president Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu on the Cannes Film Festival’s Competition jury.
Joining Iñárritu on the panel are filmmakers Paweł Pawlikowski, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kelly Reichardt (Us), Alice Rohrwacher, and Robin Campillo (France), as well as actor Elle Fanning (Us), actor-director Maimouna N’Diaye (Burkina Faso), and graphic novel author and director Enki Bilal (France).
Pawlikowski’s Cold War screened in Competition last year when it earned the best director prize, and went on to receive foreign language and directing Oscar nods earlier this year.
- 4/29/2019
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Elle Fanning and Certain Women director Kelly Reichardt are set to join the competition jury, presided over by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
A handful of Cannes prize-winning filmmakers are also on the panel, including Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, who took the best screenplay prize for Happy as Lazaro last year and the Jury Prize for The Wonders in 2014, and French helmer Robin Campillo, who won the grand prize for 120 Bpm in 2017.
Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, who won the best director prize for Cold War at Cannes last year and went on to be ...
A handful of Cannes prize-winning filmmakers are also on the panel, including Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, who took the best screenplay prize for Happy as Lazaro last year and the Jury Prize for The Wonders in 2014, and French helmer Robin Campillo, who won the grand prize for 120 Bpm in 2017.
Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, who won the best director prize for Cold War at Cannes last year and went on to be ...
- 4/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Elle Fanning and Certain Women director Kelly Reichardt are set to join the competition jury, presided over by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
A handful of Cannes prize-winning filmmakers are also on the panel, including Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, who took the best screenplay prize for Happy as Lazaro last year and the Jury Prize for The Wonders in 2014, and French helmer Robin Campillo, who won the grand prize for 120 Bpm in 2017.
Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, who won the best director prize for Cold War at Cannes last year and went on to be ...
A handful of Cannes prize-winning filmmakers are also on the panel, including Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, who took the best screenplay prize for Happy as Lazaro last year and the Jury Prize for The Wonders in 2014, and French helmer Robin Campillo, who won the grand prize for 120 Bpm in 2017.
Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, who won the best director prize for Cold War at Cannes last year and went on to be ...
- 4/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Italian film-maker’s third movie, Happy As Lazzaro, is being hailed as visionary. Here she discusses her childhood in rural Umbria and why her work is always political
As a child, Italian film-maker Alice Rohrwacher would accompany her parents on road journeys, often at night, transporting the produce of the family beekeeping business. Whenever they arrived somewhere, she would sit in the dark and wonder where she was. “I’d have to work it out from what I could hear, not from what I could see, so I’d listen to the place and the information would enter my mind – and then I’d open my eyes.” That, she says, is why her three feature films all start at night, to put her viewer in the same position. “You have to imagine a world, and then compare the world you imagine with the world outside.”
The universe of Alice...
As a child, Italian film-maker Alice Rohrwacher would accompany her parents on road journeys, often at night, transporting the produce of the family beekeeping business. Whenever they arrived somewhere, she would sit in the dark and wonder where she was. “I’d have to work it out from what I could hear, not from what I could see, so I’d listen to the place and the information would enter my mind – and then I’d open my eyes.” That, she says, is why her three feature films all start at night, to put her viewer in the same position. “You have to imagine a world, and then compare the world you imagine with the world outside.”
The universe of Alice...
- 3/31/2019
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Cannes prizewinner was talking ahead of her masterclass in Qumra.
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher has described what she called the “genocide” of culture in Italy during the Silvio Berlusconi era and how even the most talented filmmakers now struggle as a result to establish a connection with their audiences.
“Right now, we are paying [for] this genocide,” said Rohrwacher, talking to Screen ahead of her masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s talent development programme Qumra in Qatar this week.
“At the moment [genocide] arrives, people don’t realise,” she said. ”They ask themselves how this was possible and why they did nothing.
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher has described what she called the “genocide” of culture in Italy during the Silvio Berlusconi era and how even the most talented filmmakers now struggle as a result to establish a connection with their audiences.
“Right now, we are paying [for] this genocide,” said Rohrwacher, talking to Screen ahead of her masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s talent development programme Qumra in Qatar this week.
“At the moment [genocide] arrives, people don’t realise,” she said. ”They ask themselves how this was possible and why they did nothing.
- 3/22/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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