Two different generations clash in the new film by the director of In un posto bellissimo, which is being shot in and around Lecce; the cast includes Claudia Gerini and Lucia Sardo. The shoot for Sulla giostra (lit. “On the Merry-go-round”), the new film by Giorgia Cecere, has begun in and around Alessano (Lecce). The movie stars Claudia Gerini, Lucia Sardo and Alessio Vassallo, and features a special guest appearance by Paolo Sassanelli. The movie revolves around two fundamentally different women and a clash between two generations of ladies who, after spending years apart, find themselves thrown together again in an elegant old country house in deepest Salento. Day after day, almost without realising it, they transform this accidental encounter into the starting point for an unexpected new life. The cast and crew are spending four weeks on set to create this female-centred comedy with ironic and light-hearted overtones, about.
- 12/10/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Luca Guadagnino will come to Goteborg to present A Bigger Splash [pictured].
The 2016 Goteborg Film Festival has selected Italy as its country of focus.
“Italy is a wonderful film country, and it feels incredibly fun to be able to show off the full richness of Italian film. Contemporary Italian films take many forms, but often combine poetic sensuality and classic beauty with a critical view of society and history,” said the festival’s artistic director Jonas Holmberg.
The programme of 15-20 films will include contemporary titles as well as retrospective works – some chosen by the festival’s honorary chairman, Swedish director Roy Andersson.
Luca Guadagnino will come to Goteborg to present A Bigger Splash.
Other titles will include Wondrous Boccaccio byPaolo and Vittorio Taviani, Pietro Marcello’s Lost And Beautiful, Giorgia Cecere’s Somewhere Amazing; Claudio Caligari’s Don’t Be Bad, Marco Bellocchio’s Blood Of My Blood, Adriano Valerio’s Banat (The Journey), and Eleanora Danco’s...
The 2016 Goteborg Film Festival has selected Italy as its country of focus.
“Italy is a wonderful film country, and it feels incredibly fun to be able to show off the full richness of Italian film. Contemporary Italian films take many forms, but often combine poetic sensuality and classic beauty with a critical view of society and history,” said the festival’s artistic director Jonas Holmberg.
The programme of 15-20 films will include contemporary titles as well as retrospective works – some chosen by the festival’s honorary chairman, Swedish director Roy Andersson.
Luca Guadagnino will come to Goteborg to present A Bigger Splash.
Other titles will include Wondrous Boccaccio byPaolo and Vittorio Taviani, Pietro Marcello’s Lost And Beautiful, Giorgia Cecere’s Somewhere Amazing; Claudio Caligari’s Don’t Be Bad, Marco Bellocchio’s Blood Of My Blood, Adriano Valerio’s Banat (The Journey), and Eleanora Danco’s...
- 11/20/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The First Assignment
Directed by Giorgia Cecere
Italy, 2010
The First Assignment is a triumph of a romantic drama. Beautifully paced, photographed, and acted, the film takes well-worn material – the long-distance relationship – and fashions it into a meaningful experience that’s refreshingly free of cinematic sap and outdated gender roles.
Nena (Isabella Ragonese) is a teacher from southern Italy in the midst of a relationship with upper class intellectual Francesco (Alberto Boll). Their love is put to the test when she agrees to move to a small mountain town to instruct a ragtag group of children. Aside from difficulty adapting to a life of relative isolation and comparable simplicity, Nena finds happiness with her students and in Francesco’s letters and visits. Everything changes when Francesco meets another woman.
Director Giorgia Cecere maneuvers The First Assignment into subtly complex territory. In addition to its tragic-romantic narrative she incorporates commentaries on class divides and malaise,...
Directed by Giorgia Cecere
Italy, 2010
The First Assignment is a triumph of a romantic drama. Beautifully paced, photographed, and acted, the film takes well-worn material – the long-distance relationship – and fashions it into a meaningful experience that’s refreshingly free of cinematic sap and outdated gender roles.
Nena (Isabella Ragonese) is a teacher from southern Italy in the midst of a relationship with upper class intellectual Francesco (Alberto Boll). Their love is put to the test when she agrees to move to a small mountain town to instruct a ragtag group of children. Aside from difficulty adapting to a life of relative isolation and comparable simplicity, Nena finds happiness with her students and in Francesco’s letters and visits. Everything changes when Francesco meets another woman.
Director Giorgia Cecere maneuvers The First Assignment into subtly complex territory. In addition to its tragic-romantic narrative she incorporates commentaries on class divides and malaise,...
- 6/24/2011
- by Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
This morning the Venice Film Festival announced the line-up for their 2010 Festival which will run from September 1-11, and a lot of hot titles and directors are set to be on hand including the already announced festival opener Black Swan from Darren Aronofsky and closer, The Tempest from Julie Taymor. In competition, Aronofsky's feature is joined by titles from Sofia Coppola, Vincent Gallo, Julian Schnabel, Francois Ozon, Abdellatif Kechiche, Takashi Miike and Tom Tykwer. Also, making a midnight Lido appearance will be Robert Rodriguez with his grindhouse thriller Machete. One other notable title is the inclusion of the Casey Affleck-directed Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary I'm Still Here, which will be screening out of competition.
Unfortunately I won't be able to cover this one, but one of these years I would like to find a way to pull a triple play and cover Cannes, Venice and Toronto in the same year...
Unfortunately I won't be able to cover this one, but one of these years I would like to find a way to pull a triple play and cover Cannes, Venice and Toronto in the same year...
- 7/29/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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