Nanni Moretti’s “Il sol dell’avvenire” (“A Brighter Tomorrow”), a multi-layered love letter to filmmaking in the age of streaming giants, has scored a slew of sales ahead of it’s Cannes bow.
French sales company Kinology has sealed deals to Moretti’s latest work with a slew of territories including Germany (Prokino); Spain (Caramel Films); Benelux (Cineart) and Switzerland (Xenix Filmdistribution).
Additional countries that have taken a shine to “Brighter Tomorrow” are Portugal (Midas Filmes); Austria (Filmladen); Ex-Yugoslavia (McF Megacom Film) Greece (Feelgood Entertainment); Hungary (Circo Film); Israel (Lev Films and Cinemas); Latin America (Providences Films); Romania (Independent Film); and Turkey (Filmarti).
In “Brighter Tomorrow,” Moretti, who often acts in his movies, stars as a Roman director who is shooting a period piece set in Rome in 1956, the year of the Hungarian Revolution when millions of citizens rebelled against Soviet domination. In this film-within-a-film, a Fellini-esque Hungarian...
French sales company Kinology has sealed deals to Moretti’s latest work with a slew of territories including Germany (Prokino); Spain (Caramel Films); Benelux (Cineart) and Switzerland (Xenix Filmdistribution).
Additional countries that have taken a shine to “Brighter Tomorrow” are Portugal (Midas Filmes); Austria (Filmladen); Ex-Yugoslavia (McF Megacom Film) Greece (Feelgood Entertainment); Hungary (Circo Film); Israel (Lev Films and Cinemas); Latin America (Providences Films); Romania (Independent Film); and Turkey (Filmarti).
In “Brighter Tomorrow,” Moretti, who often acts in his movies, stars as a Roman director who is shooting a period piece set in Rome in 1956, the year of the Hungarian Revolution when millions of citizens rebelled against Soviet domination. In this film-within-a-film, a Fellini-esque Hungarian...
- 5/19/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian director Nanni Moretti’s new film “Il sol dell’avvenire” (“A Brighter Tomorrow”), a multi-layered love letter to filmmaking in the age of streaming giants, is doing brisk biz at the home box office ahead of its Cannes Film Festival international premiere.
The latest by Moretti — who customarily gets special permission from Cannes to release his works locally before launching them from the Croisette — has already scored close to €3 million ($3.3 million) from 500 screens in Italy via 01 Distribution since its April 20 release. “Brighter Tomorrow” came in second only to “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” last weekend, which was a long frame due to the International Workers’ Day holiday on May 1.
Moretti’s box office result with “Brighter Tomorrow” is being hailed as a major success at a time when Italy lags behind much of Europe in terms of post-pandemic box office recovery. In 2022, the country tallied a measly 44.5 million admissions,...
The latest by Moretti — who customarily gets special permission from Cannes to release his works locally before launching them from the Croisette — has already scored close to €3 million ($3.3 million) from 500 screens in Italy via 01 Distribution since its April 20 release. “Brighter Tomorrow” came in second only to “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” last weekend, which was a long frame due to the International Workers’ Day holiday on May 1.
Moretti’s box office result with “Brighter Tomorrow” is being hailed as a major success at a time when Italy lags behind much of Europe in terms of post-pandemic box office recovery. In 2022, the country tallied a measly 44.5 million admissions,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Damian Kocur’s 2022 Venice Film Festival winner “Bread and Salt” will open the 21st Kinoteka Polish Film Festival.
“Bread and Salt” follows the journey of two brothers, played by real-life siblings Tymoteusz Bies and Jacek Bies, in a small Polish town during one hot summer.
The closing gala will be Feliks Falk’s 1977 classic “Top Dog.” Causing much debate in Poland on its original release, the film follows the story of small-town entertainer Danielak, played by Polish acting legend Jerzy Stuhr, who will stop at nothing to achieve his aim of hosting the town’s 500th anniversary celebrations.
In collaboration with BFI, Kinoteka will also present Outsiders and Exiles: The Films of Jerzy Skolimowski, a month-long retrospective at BFI Southbank. Skolimowski’s latest film “Eo” has earned enormous critical acclaim across the world since its premiere at Cannes, culminating with the film’s recent Academy Award nomination in the international feature category.
“Bread and Salt” follows the journey of two brothers, played by real-life siblings Tymoteusz Bies and Jacek Bies, in a small Polish town during one hot summer.
The closing gala will be Feliks Falk’s 1977 classic “Top Dog.” Causing much debate in Poland on its original release, the film follows the story of small-town entertainer Danielak, played by Polish acting legend Jerzy Stuhr, who will stop at nothing to achieve his aim of hosting the town’s 500th anniversary celebrations.
In collaboration with BFI, Kinoteka will also present Outsiders and Exiles: The Films of Jerzy Skolimowski, a month-long retrospective at BFI Southbank. Skolimowski’s latest film “Eo” has earned enormous critical acclaim across the world since its premiere at Cannes, culminating with the film’s recent Academy Award nomination in the international feature category.
- 1/27/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based company Kinology has secured international sales to “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire,” from Italian auteur and Cannes regular Nanni Moretti. Pic is currently shooting in Rome.
The deal between Kinology and Domenico Procacci’s Fandango, which is producing in tandem with Moretti’s Sacher shingle and Rai Cinema, marks the first time Kinology has handled a Moretti pic.
Kinology, which is headed by Grégoire Melin, will be launching pre-sales on “Il Sol” in Cannes.
Moretti’s latest work has been described by the director as both an unconventional comedy and a period piece set in Rome between the 1950s and the 1970s amid the city’s circus world, but also involving the world of cinema.
Though that is quite vague, what’s clear is that Moretti seems keen to shift gears, moving into lighter fare following his ensemble melodrama “Three Floors,” which was in Cannes last year.
Last week in Rome,...
The deal between Kinology and Domenico Procacci’s Fandango, which is producing in tandem with Moretti’s Sacher shingle and Rai Cinema, marks the first time Kinology has handled a Moretti pic.
Kinology, which is headed by Grégoire Melin, will be launching pre-sales on “Il Sol” in Cannes.
Moretti’s latest work has been described by the director as both an unconventional comedy and a period piece set in Rome between the 1950s and the 1970s amid the city’s circus world, but also involving the world of cinema.
Though that is quite vague, what’s clear is that Moretti seems keen to shift gears, moving into lighter fare following his ensemble melodrama “Three Floors,” which was in Cannes last year.
Last week in Rome,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Nanni Moretti is set to start shooting unconventional comedy “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire” in March. Pic will star French actor-director Mathieu Amalric and feature a cast comprising Polish multi-hyphenate Jerzy Stuhr.
Stuhr appeared in Moretti’s “We Have a Pope” and “The Caiman.” He will star in “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire” — which translates as “The Sun of the Future” — alongside Moretti regulars including Margherita Buy (“Three Floors”), Silvio Orlando (“The Caiman”) and Moretti himself.
Details of Moretti’s new film, revealed by the director in an interview with local trade publication Italian Cinema, have been confirmed by Fandango, which is producing in tandem with Moretti’s own Sacher shingle and Rai Cinema.
While the veteran auteur is keeping plot details under wraps, he has said that it’s a period piece set in Rome between the 1950s and the 1970s amid the city’s circus world, but will also involve the world of cinema.
Stuhr appeared in Moretti’s “We Have a Pope” and “The Caiman.” He will star in “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire” — which translates as “The Sun of the Future” — alongside Moretti regulars including Margherita Buy (“Three Floors”), Silvio Orlando (“The Caiman”) and Moretti himself.
Details of Moretti’s new film, revealed by the director in an interview with local trade publication Italian Cinema, have been confirmed by Fandango, which is producing in tandem with Moretti’s own Sacher shingle and Rai Cinema.
While the veteran auteur is keeping plot details under wraps, he has said that it’s a period piece set in Rome between the 1950s and the 1970s amid the city’s circus world, but will also involve the world of cinema.
- 2/13/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Ready to unspool its 36th edition, the Polish festival is set to open with a screening of Carlo S Hintermann's The Book of Vision. Opening with Carlo S Hintermann’s The Book of Vision, fresh off its Venice debut, the Warsaw Film Festival has opted for a physical edition, now set to run from 9-18 October. “Opening the Warsaw Film Festival is a huge honour for me,” the director told Cineuropa via email. “I am absolutely in love with Polish cinema: I grew up with the movies of Skolimowski, Żuławski, Wajda, Kieślowskiand Polański, and with cult actors such as Bogusław Linda, Jerzy Stuhr and Jerzy Radziwiłowicz," he added, recounting his first experience on a professional set with Krzysztof Zanussi, who allowed him to take part in the shooting of the TV series Weekend Stories. "It’s a kind of circle: starting off as a student on a set in Warsaw and now.
Netflix rolled out the red carpet at Rome’s Villa Miani on Wednesday to unveil new projects and expound on its international ambitions. CEO Reed Hastings and Cco Ted Sarandos made brief appearances high above the Eternal City introducing a series of panels and announcements that revealed details of such upcoming offerings as a continuation of the Peabody Award winning true crime mini The Staircase; a documentary about the November 2013 Paris Attacks; a Julian Fellowes-penned origins of soccer drama; German event series The Wave; Idris Elba-starrer Turn Up Charlie; its first Italian original film; and still more.
In 2018, Netflix is nearly doubling the number of produced shows and investment since 2017 overseas. It has over 35,000 people working on local productions and this year, says subscribers will have access to over 100 projects in 16 languages from 16 countries, including for the first time the Middle East and Africa.
The service said it is committed to local-language shows,...
In 2018, Netflix is nearly doubling the number of produced shows and investment since 2017 overseas. It has over 35,000 people working on local productions and this year, says subscribers will have access to over 100 projects in 16 languages from 16 countries, including for the first time the Middle East and Africa.
The service said it is committed to local-language shows,...
- 4/18/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Actors Cary Elwes and Jake Busey will join the “Stranger Things” cast in the show’s third season, Netflix announced Wednesday.
Elwes, known for “The Princess Bride,” will play a character named Mayor Kline, while Busey, from “Starship Troopers,” will play Bruce.
Mayor Kline is being described by Netflix promotional materials as “handsome, slick, and sleazy.” “Your classic ’80s politician – more concerned with his own image than with the people of the small town he governs.” The Bruce character played by Busey is “a journalist for the The Hawkins Post, with questionable morals and a sick sense of humor.”
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos made the new casting announcement at Netflix’s See What’s Next event in Rome, where the streaming giant announced a slew of new productions from Europe and elsewhere around the world.
As previously announced, Maya Hawke will be one of the new leads in “Stranger Things,...
Elwes, known for “The Princess Bride,” will play a character named Mayor Kline, while Busey, from “Starship Troopers,” will play Bruce.
Mayor Kline is being described by Netflix promotional materials as “handsome, slick, and sleazy.” “Your classic ’80s politician – more concerned with his own image than with the people of the small town he governs.” The Bruce character played by Busey is “a journalist for the The Hawkins Post, with questionable morals and a sick sense of humor.”
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos made the new casting announcement at Netflix’s See What’s Next event in Rome, where the streaming giant announced a slew of new productions from Europe and elsewhere around the world.
As previously announced, Maya Hawke will be one of the new leads in “Stranger Things,...
- 4/18/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
You don’t have to live in New York City to appreciate the charms of the Museum of the Moving Image’s new, career-spanning trailer chronicling the works of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski. Kicking off later this week and running a full month, MoMI is set to play home to the most comprehensive retrospective of the director to ever hit American shores. Best known for the features “The Double Life of Veronique” and the “Three Colors” Trilogy (Blue, White and Red) and the boundary-busting television mini-series “Dekalog” (“The Decalogue”), the director was one of the most important European filmmakers of the 1990s.
Read More: ‘Dekalog’ Review: The Best 10 Hours You Will Ever Spend At The Movies
The new retrospective will include all of the Polish director’s features, short films, early documentary work and a marathon viewing of the “Dekalog,” from October 7 through November 6, 2016. The series will also include four...
Read More: ‘Dekalog’ Review: The Best 10 Hours You Will Ever Spend At The Movies
The new retrospective will include all of the Polish director’s features, short films, early documentary work and a marathon viewing of the “Dekalog,” from October 7 through November 6, 2016. The series will also include four...
- 10/5/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
In the latest quick roundup on goings on here and there, we have a bit more on Afrofuturism at BAMcinématek. Plus: an evening with Luther Price, a chat with Julie Dash about La Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, a series at London's Tate Modern, an overview of Kinoteka, London's 13th Polish Film Festival, featuring work by Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Wojciech Has, Krzysztof Zanussi and many others, plus an Alain Resnais retrospective in Barcelona. » - David Hudson...
- 4/12/2015
- Keyframe
In the latest quick roundup on goings on here and there, we have a bit more on Afrofuturism at BAMcinématek. Plus: an evening with Luther Price, a chat with Julie Dash about La Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, a series at London's Tate Modern, an overview of Kinoteka, London's 13th Polish Film Festival, featuring work by Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Wojciech Has, Krzysztof Zanussi and many others, plus an Alain Resnais retrospective in Barcelona. » - David Hudson...
- 4/12/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Industry@Tallinn will feature discussions involving the likes of Jessica Switch of Lionsgate and Jeff Barry & Nigel Meiojas of ICM Partners.
Industry@Tallinn has announced its full programme for its upcoming edition, running Nov 24-28 during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Organised by Black Nights and Baltic Event, the programme is targeted to over 500 regional film industry professionals.
This year’s industry talks will look into the impact of feature-length television on the film industry, business customs and practices for Asian collaboration, strategies of linking small scale talent and post production pools to major players, and rebel release tactics in distribution.
Speakers at this year’s event include Jessica Switch, director of development, Lionsgate; Jeff Barry & Nigel Meiojas, ICM Partners; Judy Ahn, head of international, Showbox/MediaPlex Entertainment; Matteo Solaro, Creative Europe/Media; and Sylvia Wroblewska, business and marketing director, Sheffield Doc/Fest.
The Film Festivals Confab will return in collaboration with Independent Cinema Office, focusing...
Industry@Tallinn has announced its full programme for its upcoming edition, running Nov 24-28 during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Organised by Black Nights and Baltic Event, the programme is targeted to over 500 regional film industry professionals.
This year’s industry talks will look into the impact of feature-length television on the film industry, business customs and practices for Asian collaboration, strategies of linking small scale talent and post production pools to major players, and rebel release tactics in distribution.
Speakers at this year’s event include Jessica Switch, director of development, Lionsgate; Jeff Barry & Nigel Meiojas, ICM Partners; Judy Ahn, head of international, Showbox/MediaPlex Entertainment; Matteo Solaro, Creative Europe/Media; and Sylvia Wroblewska, business and marketing director, Sheffield Doc/Fest.
The Film Festivals Confab will return in collaboration with Independent Cinema Office, focusing...
- 11/8/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
British star will attend cinematography festival with his second film as a director, A Little Chaos.
Alan Rickman, best known for his roles in the Harry Potter series and Die Hard, is to receive the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award during the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22) in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Interview: Alan Rickman
The cinematography festival has previously awarded the honour to Gary Oldman, Charlize Theron, the late Gustaw Holoubek, Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Jan Machulski, Irene Jacob, Viggo Mortensen, Jerzy Stuhr, Julia Ormond, John Malkovich, Liam Neeson among others.
Attending the festival, Rickman will present A Little Chaos, the period drama in which he co-stars with Kate Winslet. It marks his second film as a director after The Winter Guest in 1997 and debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
After the special screening, Rickman will meet the audience for Q&A session.
A Little Chaos will be distributed in Poland by Monolith Films.
Alan Rickman, best known for his roles in the Harry Potter series and Die Hard, is to receive the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award during the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22) in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Interview: Alan Rickman
The cinematography festival has previously awarded the honour to Gary Oldman, Charlize Theron, the late Gustaw Holoubek, Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Jan Machulski, Irene Jacob, Viggo Mortensen, Jerzy Stuhr, Julia Ormond, John Malkovich, Liam Neeson among others.
Attending the festival, Rickman will present A Little Chaos, the period drama in which he co-stars with Kate Winslet. It marks his second film as a director after The Winter Guest in 1997 and debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
After the special screening, Rickman will meet the audience for Q&A session.
A Little Chaos will be distributed in Poland by Monolith Films.
- 11/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Lukasz Palkowski’s Gods was the big winner at this year’s annual showcase of Polish cinema at the Gdynia Film Festival which ended with a gala awards ceremony at the weekend.
Gods (Bogowie), based on the life of Zbigniew Religa who performed the first successful heart transplant in Poland in the 1980s, received the Grand Prix Golden Lions for best film as well as individual awards in the categories of screenplay, make-up, production design and actor in a leading role for Tomasz Kot.
In addition, Gods received the award of the Polish Film Festivals and Reviews Abroad as well as the Journalists’ Award, Elle magazine’s Star of the Stars award for lead actor Kot and Radio Gdansk’s Golden Claquer Award for the longest applauded film at a screening in the Musical Theatre for the Main Competition.
Palkowski made his feature directorial debut in 2007 with Reserve, which won three prize at the festival in Gdynia...
Gods (Bogowie), based on the life of Zbigniew Religa who performed the first successful heart transplant in Poland in the 1980s, received the Grand Prix Golden Lions for best film as well as individual awards in the categories of screenplay, make-up, production design and actor in a leading role for Tomasz Kot.
In addition, Gods received the award of the Polish Film Festivals and Reviews Abroad as well as the Journalists’ Award, Elle magazine’s Star of the Stars award for lead actor Kot and Radio Gdansk’s Golden Claquer Award for the longest applauded film at a screening in the Musical Theatre for the Main Competition.
Palkowski made his feature directorial debut in 2007 with Reserve, which won three prize at the festival in Gdynia...
- 9/22/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Restored, re-edited version of The Deluge to open Michal Oleszczyk’s first year at Gdynia
Michał Oleszczyk’s first outing as the artistic director of the Gdynia Film Festival (Sept 15-21) will open tonight with the restored and re-edited version of Jerzy Hoffman’s 1974 classic The Deluge.
Under Hoffman’s supervision, the editor Marcin Kot Bastkowski has created Deluge Redivivus, a new, shortened version of the Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Henryk Sienkiewicz novel.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of the festival’s 39th edition in the Polish city, Oleszczyk says that he has made “two significant changes” this year.
“I reinforced the Young Cinema Competition, which puts emphasis on film directors who have just graduated from film schools - I strongly believe that it’s very important to support the new generation of filmmakers,” he said.
“I have moved this competition into the main festival cinema venue of the Musical Theatre, so that, currently...
Michał Oleszczyk’s first outing as the artistic director of the Gdynia Film Festival (Sept 15-21) will open tonight with the restored and re-edited version of Jerzy Hoffman’s 1974 classic The Deluge.
Under Hoffman’s supervision, the editor Marcin Kot Bastkowski has created Deluge Redivivus, a new, shortened version of the Oscar-nominated adaptation of the Henryk Sienkiewicz novel.
Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of the festival’s 39th edition in the Polish city, Oleszczyk says that he has made “two significant changes” this year.
“I reinforced the Young Cinema Competition, which puts emphasis on film directors who have just graduated from film schools - I strongly believe that it’s very important to support the new generation of filmmakers,” he said.
“I have moved this competition into the main festival cinema venue of the Musical Theatre, so that, currently...
- 9/15/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
In a letter to Russian authorities, European film-makers have expressed their worry about the fate of Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov
The Board of the European Film Academy has initiated a letter to Russian authorities about Oleg Sentsov.
Sentsov was arrested last month [see separate story here] and European film-makers have signed the letter to express their worry about the fate of the Ukrainian film-maker.
The letter states that “we are deeply worried and cannot stop wondering how he is and what his future will be,” and goes on to call upon the Russian authorities to ensure the safety of Sentsov and to make public his whereabouts.
Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, Béla Tarr and Wim Wenders are among the film-makers to have signed the letter.
The letter in full
To
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - President of Russia
Sergey Evgenyevich Naryshkin – Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Alexander Wassiljewitsch Bortnikow - Director of the Fsb
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kolokoltsev - Russian...
The Board of the European Film Academy has initiated a letter to Russian authorities about Oleg Sentsov.
Sentsov was arrested last month [see separate story here] and European film-makers have signed the letter to express their worry about the fate of the Ukrainian film-maker.
The letter states that “we are deeply worried and cannot stop wondering how he is and what his future will be,” and goes on to call upon the Russian authorities to ensure the safety of Sentsov and to make public his whereabouts.
Pedro Almodóvar, Ken Loach, Béla Tarr and Wim Wenders are among the film-makers to have signed the letter.
The letter in full
To
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - President of Russia
Sergey Evgenyevich Naryshkin – Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Alexander Wassiljewitsch Bortnikow - Director of the Fsb
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kolokoltsev - Russian...
- 6/10/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – It’s getting harder and harder to satirize something as über-holy as the Vatican, given their preferred state of reality, but director Nanni Morretti gives it an absurd cinematic try just by highlighting the humanity behind the state of grace. Michel Piccoli portrays the title character in ‘We Have a Pope.’
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This Italian film has caused a bit of pique from its storytelling source, and given the Vatican’s famous sensitivity to any form of commentary upon it, that’s not surprising. By telling the story of an elected pope, who refuses to complete the given assignment by appearing before his faithful, Moretti injects a natural emotional element to the often cold power play of papal politics. The pope presumably is infallible in decision making, but as long as there is a human being representing those decisions, the concept of infallibility is corruptible. Moretti illustrates this deftly in the film,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
This Italian film has caused a bit of pique from its storytelling source, and given the Vatican’s famous sensitivity to any form of commentary upon it, that’s not surprising. By telling the story of an elected pope, who refuses to complete the given assignment by appearing before his faithful, Moretti injects a natural emotional element to the often cold power play of papal politics. The pope presumably is infallible in decision making, but as long as there is a human being representing those decisions, the concept of infallibility is corruptible. Moretti illustrates this deftly in the film,...
- 4/27/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Title: We Have a Pope Director: Nanni Moretti Starring: Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Jerzy Stuhr, Margherita Buy, Renato Scarpa, Franco Graziosi, Enrico Ianniello An amiable comedy import at once thoughtful and low-key, multi-hyphenate Nanni Moretti’s Italian-language “We Have a Pope” takes an unlikely subject — the aftermath of the election of a new pontiff, and the swirl of self-doubt surrounding the newly infallible voice of God on Earth — and turns it into something rich, surprising and altogether rewarding. At the Vatican conclave to select the new pope, Cardinal Melville (Michel Piccoli, of “Contempt” and “Belle de Jour”) emerges as a surprise candidate on a fourth or fifth ballot. Caught off guard upon [ Read More ]...
- 4/7/2012
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
We Have a Pope / Habemus Papam
Directed by Nanni Moretti
Written by Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli
Italy / France, 2011
We Have a Pope gets off to a colourful start, with the masses in Saint Peter’s Square feasting their eyes on a sea of red capes, white lace and ecclesiastical bling. On paper, Nanni Moretti’s film promises swinging satire and perhaps some searching questions about how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its leader. Unfortunately he’s bottled it – serving up a comedy so mild it should come with a Papal Seal of Approval.
Michel Piccoli stars as Cardinal Melville, chosen by his peers to be the new Pope after lengthy deliberations and much collective boredom. It turns out that no one really wanted the job (“Not me, Lord”), so Melville is just the poor schmuck who’s drawn the short straw. In a wonderfully anti-climactic moment he...
Directed by Nanni Moretti
Written by Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli
Italy / France, 2011
We Have a Pope gets off to a colourful start, with the masses in Saint Peter’s Square feasting their eyes on a sea of red capes, white lace and ecclesiastical bling. On paper, Nanni Moretti’s film promises swinging satire and perhaps some searching questions about how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its leader. Unfortunately he’s bottled it – serving up a comedy so mild it should come with a Papal Seal of Approval.
Michel Piccoli stars as Cardinal Melville, chosen by his peers to be the new Pope after lengthy deliberations and much collective boredom. It turns out that no one really wanted the job (“Not me, Lord”), so Melville is just the poor schmuck who’s drawn the short straw. In a wonderfully anti-climactic moment he...
- 4/5/2012
- by Susannah
- SoundOnSight
We Have a Pope Trailer, Habemus Papam Trailer. Nanni Moretti‘s We Have a Pope / Habemus Papam (2011) movie trailer stars Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa, Nanni Moretti, and Margherita Buy. We Have a Pope‘s plot synopsis: “In his latest comedy, We Have A Pope, Palme d’Or-winner Nanni Moretti (The Son’S Room) joins forces with the great French actor Michel Piccoli (Contempt) to tell the story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds himself elected as the next Pope. Never before in the spotlight and completely caught off guard, he panics as he’s presented to the faithful in St. Peter’s Square.
To prevent a worldwide crisis, the Vatican calls in an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious or all that committed, played by Moretti, to find out what is wrong with the new Pope and come to a solution. We Have A Pope gives marvelous...
To prevent a worldwide crisis, the Vatican calls in an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious or all that committed, played by Moretti, to find out what is wrong with the new Pope and come to a solution. We Have A Pope gives marvelous...
- 3/6/2012
- by R.W.
- Film-Book
Title: We Have a Pope Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten Director: Nanni Moretti Screenwriter: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo Cast: Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa, Franco Graziosi Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 3/1/12 Opens: April 6, 2012 We Have a Pope As an actor, Michel Piccoli is one of the world’s gems with a résumé stretching back to 1954. But there is little he can do to rescue a film about upper levels of the Catholic Church that is devoid of bite and that uses forced humor such as the idea that (tee hee) even Cardinals may want a cappuccino and even a college stacked with men who’d consider [ Read More ]...
- 3/6/2012
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Hugo (U)
(Martin Scorsese, 2011, Us) Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen. 126 mins.
Eyebrows were raised and expectations lowered at the prospect of a Scorsese-made 3D family movie – but now it all makes sense. This is less a kids' romp than a hymn to early cinema – sugar-coated with a junior steampunk adventure revolving around an Parisian orphan and his mystery automaton. It's a satisfyingly lavish affair technically, with a story that's intelligent and heartfelt.
We Have A Pope (PG)
(Nanni Moretti, 2011, Ita/Fra) Nanni Moretti, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr. 105 mins.
Moretti's Vatican satire is wry rather than scathing, which will disappoint many. But there's fun to be had as Piccoli's panicked new pope seeks therapy from Moretti's secular psychoanalyst.
Surviving Life (15)
(Jan Svankmajer, 2010, Cze) Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová. 109 mins.
More light-hearted Freudian comedy, with Monty Python-style cut-out animation, as a middle-aged man prefers his dream world to reality,...
(Martin Scorsese, 2011, Us) Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen. 126 mins.
Eyebrows were raised and expectations lowered at the prospect of a Scorsese-made 3D family movie – but now it all makes sense. This is less a kids' romp than a hymn to early cinema – sugar-coated with a junior steampunk adventure revolving around an Parisian orphan and his mystery automaton. It's a satisfyingly lavish affair technically, with a story that's intelligent and heartfelt.
We Have A Pope (PG)
(Nanni Moretti, 2011, Ita/Fra) Nanni Moretti, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr. 105 mins.
Moretti's Vatican satire is wry rather than scathing, which will disappoint many. But there's fun to be had as Piccoli's panicked new pope seeks therapy from Moretti's secular psychoanalyst.
Surviving Life (15)
(Jan Svankmajer, 2010, Cze) Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová. 109 mins.
More light-hearted Freudian comedy, with Monty Python-style cut-out animation, as a middle-aged man prefers his dream world to reality,...
- 12/3/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The lady from the BBC World Service was very persistent. Nanni Moretti had just spent more than an hour talking to us about his new film, We Have a Pope/Habemus Papam, and he was late for a Gala Screening. Now she wanted him to autograph her DVD of Dear Diary and a T-shirt for her daughter. I left before the weary-looking writer/director could be asked to inscribe his name on any of her body parts.
I knew that Moretti conducts his English-language interviews through a translator and that he likes to be very thorough. Most of his 20 films have a comic tone, but the man who has often been compared to Woody Allen takes his profession and his politics very seriously.
His latest film We Have a Pope is pure fiction, though some hard-liners seem to regard any attempt to make a film about the papacy as verging on heresy.
I knew that Moretti conducts his English-language interviews through a translator and that he likes to be very thorough. Most of his 20 films have a comic tone, but the man who has often been compared to Woody Allen takes his profession and his politics very seriously.
His latest film We Have a Pope is pure fiction, though some hard-liners seem to regard any attempt to make a film about the papacy as verging on heresy.
- 10/26/2011
- by Susannah
- SoundOnSight
We Have a Pope / Habemus Papam
Directed by Nanni Moretti
Written by Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli
Italy / France, 2011
We Have a Pope gets off to a colourful start, with the masses in Saint Peter’s Square feasting their eyes on a sea of red capes, white lace and ecclesiastical bling. On paper, Nanni Moretti’s film promises swinging satire and perhaps some searching questions about how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its leader. Unfortunately he’s bottled it – serving up a comedy so mild it should come with a Papal Seal of Approval.
Michel Piccoli stars as Cardinal Melville, chosen by his peers to be the new Pope after lengthy deliberations and much collective boredom. It turns out that no one really wanted the job (“Not me, Lord”), so Melville is just the poor schmuck who’s drawn the short straw. In a wonderfully anti-climactic moment he...
Directed by Nanni Moretti
Written by Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli
Italy / France, 2011
We Have a Pope gets off to a colourful start, with the masses in Saint Peter’s Square feasting their eyes on a sea of red capes, white lace and ecclesiastical bling. On paper, Nanni Moretti’s film promises swinging satire and perhaps some searching questions about how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its leader. Unfortunately he’s bottled it – serving up a comedy so mild it should come with a Papal Seal of Approval.
Michel Piccoli stars as Cardinal Melville, chosen by his peers to be the new Pope after lengthy deliberations and much collective boredom. It turns out that no one really wanted the job (“Not me, Lord”), so Melville is just the poor schmuck who’s drawn the short straw. In a wonderfully anti-climactic moment he...
- 10/15/2011
- by Susannah
- SoundOnSight
Canary Wharf Big Screen, London
Doubtless catering to its core demographic, Canary Wharf's free outdoor screen has primarily hosted live sports events so far this summer, but now the holidays have set in, its selection has broadened. From Tuesday to Thursday the Barbican present three lesser-known family friendly Japanese animes: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Nintendo puzzle hero Professor Layton, and the acclaimed Summer Wars. Then, there are classic silent comedies for the next three Mondays (Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, with live piano accompaniment), and coinciding with the Canary Wharf Jazz Festival (12-14 Aug), a few choice documentaries on Thelonius Monk.
Canada Square, E14, Tue to 22 Aug
James Marsh & Project Nim, London
Few anticipated that the story of a tightrope walk between the Twin Towers would make for a wildly entertaining documentary, let alone an Oscar-winner, but 2008's Man On Wire catapulted James Marsh from the status of...
Doubtless catering to its core demographic, Canary Wharf's free outdoor screen has primarily hosted live sports events so far this summer, but now the holidays have set in, its selection has broadened. From Tuesday to Thursday the Barbican present three lesser-known family friendly Japanese animes: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Nintendo puzzle hero Professor Layton, and the acclaimed Summer Wars. Then, there are classic silent comedies for the next three Mondays (Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, with live piano accompaniment), and coinciding with the Canary Wharf Jazz Festival (12-14 Aug), a few choice documentaries on Thelonius Monk.
Canada Square, E14, Tue to 22 Aug
James Marsh & Project Nim, London
Few anticipated that the story of a tightrope walk between the Twin Towers would make for a wildly entertaining documentary, let alone an Oscar-winner, but 2008's Man On Wire catapulted James Marsh from the status of...
- 7/29/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Critics hoped Nanni Moretti's new film would be a fierce attack on the Catholic church – instead, it's an amiable farce. Has the scourge of the Italian establishment gone soft? Xan Brooks meets him in Cannes
Nanni Moretti's new film takes us behind the scenes at the Vatican, down darkened corridors and beyond closed doors. Look: there's an aged cardinal on his exercise bike, another dosing his water with Rescue Remedy, a third puffing ecstatically on a sly cigarette. At its Cannes screening, where Moretti is in contention for this year's Palme d'Or, I mentally urged the director to take us further, show us more. What I'm really after, I think, is the arrival of an altar boy.
But Moretti moves in mysterious ways. When it was announced that the puckish Italian film-maker was shooting a comedy about the Catholic church, the critics readied themselves for a major scandal,...
Nanni Moretti's new film takes us behind the scenes at the Vatican, down darkened corridors and beyond closed doors. Look: there's an aged cardinal on his exercise bike, another dosing his water with Rescue Remedy, a third puffing ecstatically on a sly cigarette. At its Cannes screening, where Moretti is in contention for this year's Palme d'Or, I mentally urged the director to take us further, show us more. What I'm really after, I think, is the arrival of an altar boy.
But Moretti moves in mysterious ways. When it was announced that the puckish Italian film-maker was shooting a comedy about the Catholic church, the critics readied themselves for a major scandal,...
- 5/15/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
- Pablo Larraín’s Tony Manero received top kudos in the form of Best Film, Best Actor and the Fipresci award for Best Pic at the 26th edition of the Torino Film Festival. The jury was comprised of Alexey German jr., Jonathan Lethem, Dito Montiel, Alba Rohrwacher and Jerzy Stuhr. I’m a big fan of this very disturbing, extremely dark commentary about the fear and the wrath felt by Augusto Pinochet's oppressive rule over Chile, and actor Alfredo Castro’s take on a disco-teaching, psychopath, inherently ugly person is perhaps one of the year’s most memorable characters. I caught Larraín’s film at Cannes this year, and it had recent North American preems at Tiff and Nyff but not surprisingly, it has little chances from going from the film fest circuit to a domestic, theatrical release. The Jury of the Fipresci Award had this to say about the Chilean-Brazilian film: “For its powerful,
- 11/30/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
MOSCOW -- Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 2 will open the 26th edition of the Moscow International Film Festival on June 28 with star David Carradine in attendance, organizers said. The festival will screen 17 films in international competition and in addition feature a program focusing on debuts by young and promising directors. Meryl Streep, due to arrive on June 22, her 55th birthday, will receive the festival's Konstantin Stanislavsky award given annually to those stars who best epitomize the method acting the Russian-born actor pioneered. British director Alan Parker (Evita, Angel Heart) will lead an international jury that includes Polish actor-director Jerzy Stuhr and Russian producer Armen Medvedev.
PALM SPRINGS -- Jerzy Stuhr, a great Polish actor who has made acclaimed films with Krzysztof Kieslowski, Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, makes his ambitious second film as director a tricky but successful comic fable in which he plays four characters.
"Love Stories" is a visual delight and was a crowd-pleaser at the recent Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival, but it faces tough competition as Poland's candidate for a foreign-language Oscar nomination. Still, the film deserves to go the select-site route domestically for savvy moviegoers unfazed by subtitles and nonlinear storytelling.
In each of the four short, engaging stories woven together like a cinematic quilt, a 45-year-old man is faced with unexpected turmoil and choices because of love: A university teacher becomes involved with one of his students, a sweet, pretty lonelyheart; an army colonel with a dreary life rekindles his passion for a former flame, a pretty Russian woman who then threatens his career; a teenage girl announces she is the daughter of a priest, forever changing his life; and, in his most colorful incarnation, Stuhr boisterously plays a passionate petty criminal in prison with an untrustworthy lover who lies to and blackmails him.
Stuhr, with the help of costume changes but no elaborate makeup, plays the four leads with subtle differences and broad strokes; he has rarely been more entertaining.
Inserted throughout are curious scenes in which the four men are interviewed by a pollster and reveal their feelings and convictions. The film becomes a morality play, in which some characters are punished and others are not, but Stuhr stays with a whimsical approach. His direction is superb, and excellent editing keeps the puzzle pieces smoothly into place.
LOVE STORIES (Historie mitosne)
Zebra Film Prods.
Canal Plus Poland, WFDiF
Credits: Writer-director: Jerzy Stuhr; Producers: Juliusz Machulski, Jacek Moczydlowski, Jacek Bromski; Director of photography: Pawel Edelman; Set designer: Allan Starski; Music: Adam Nowak; Editor: Elzbieta Kurkowska. Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura, Dominika Ostalowska, Irina Alfiorowa, Karolina Ostrozna, Jerzy Nowak. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 87 minutes. Color/stereo.
"Love Stories" is a visual delight and was a crowd-pleaser at the recent Nortel Palm Springs International Film Festival, but it faces tough competition as Poland's candidate for a foreign-language Oscar nomination. Still, the film deserves to go the select-site route domestically for savvy moviegoers unfazed by subtitles and nonlinear storytelling.
In each of the four short, engaging stories woven together like a cinematic quilt, a 45-year-old man is faced with unexpected turmoil and choices because of love: A university teacher becomes involved with one of his students, a sweet, pretty lonelyheart; an army colonel with a dreary life rekindles his passion for a former flame, a pretty Russian woman who then threatens his career; a teenage girl announces she is the daughter of a priest, forever changing his life; and, in his most colorful incarnation, Stuhr boisterously plays a passionate petty criminal in prison with an untrustworthy lover who lies to and blackmails him.
Stuhr, with the help of costume changes but no elaborate makeup, plays the four leads with subtle differences and broad strokes; he has rarely been more entertaining.
Inserted throughout are curious scenes in which the four men are interviewed by a pollster and reveal their feelings and convictions. The film becomes a morality play, in which some characters are punished and others are not, but Stuhr stays with a whimsical approach. His direction is superb, and excellent editing keeps the puzzle pieces smoothly into place.
LOVE STORIES (Historie mitosne)
Zebra Film Prods.
Canal Plus Poland, WFDiF
Credits: Writer-director: Jerzy Stuhr; Producers: Juliusz Machulski, Jacek Moczydlowski, Jacek Bromski; Director of photography: Pawel Edelman; Set designer: Allan Starski; Music: Adam Nowak; Editor: Elzbieta Kurkowska. Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura, Dominika Ostalowska, Irina Alfiorowa, Karolina Ostrozna, Jerzy Nowak. No MPAA rating. Running time -- 87 minutes. Color/stereo.
- 1/27/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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