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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Stephen Frears, director of the film The Lost King.

With The Lost King, Stephen Frears reunites with the writers team of Philomena, Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan and brings to the big screen the true story of an amateur historian, Philippa Langley (Sally Hawkins), who in 2012 discovered the remains of King Richard III a carpark in Leicester. At the Rome Film Festival to present the film in the Grand Public section, the director talks about his fascination for female driven stories and the peculiar story of Philippa Langley, whom against all odds, managed to find the remains, also because she trusted her feelings and presentiment beyond archeological theories.

The Lost King: In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics. THE LOST KING is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country’s most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England’s history.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews James Morosini, director and actor of the film I Love my Dad.

In the interview with the director James Morosini we talked about the complicated father – son relationship that inspired Morosini’s acclaimed new film, I Love My Dad. It’s also based on a true story – in real life, Morosini’s father sent him a friend request under the guise of an attractive young woman.

I Love my Dad: Inspired by James Morosini’s true life experience, I Love My Dad follows Chuck (Patton Oswalt), an estranged father who desperately wants to reconnect with his troubled son, Franklin (Morosini). Blocked on social media and concerned for his son’s life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl (Claudia Sulewski) and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Michel Hazanavicius and Bérénice Bejo, director and actress of the film Cut! – Coupez!

As the opening film of the 2022 edition of Festival de Cannes, Cut! by Michel Hazanivicius has been defined as a Cinema Lesson. The director, along with one of his protagonists and life partner Bérénice Bejo, brought the film to Rome Film Festival. Hazanivicius and Bejo use the occasion of the discussion brought up by the film to give their own definition of what cinema is. Finally, Bejo comment on her decision to accept the role of Nadia, the director’s wife in the film, as she was initially not cast to participate.

Cut! – Coupez!: In an abandoned building, a low-budget zombie horror shoot is falling apart. The abusive director is pushing the cast and crew to the brink with obnoxious behaviour, and things really start to go wrong when he reveals his plan to inject more energy into the project by unlocking a real ancient curse! In one frenetic shot – and with body parts and fluids flying – the actors fight the undead, and their director, before the film comes to a shocking conclusion and the credits roll. But is that the whole story?

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Zachary Wigon, actor and producer of the film Sanctuary.

In the interview with Zachary Wigon, director of the movie Sanctuary in the section Concorso progressive cinema we talked about montepulciano and from where the idea of the subject came from.

Sanctuary: A wealthy client of a dominatrix tries to end their relationship.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Kim Petalas, director of the British Film Festival.

Festival director Kim Petalas talks about how the festival has grown significantly over the last ten years to become a highly anticipated collection of new British cinema. Kim browses the program that includes exclusive premieres in addition to a selection of dramas, documentaries and comedies. Also, James Bond is back on the big screen in a curated line up showcasing sixty years of iconic style and adventure. First hitting the silver screen in 1962, the world’s famous Secret Service agent will be celebrated with a remarkable collection of 14 films that feature Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig in stunning 4K restorations to honour 60 years of adventure.

The British Film Festival opens on the 18th of October, and it is showcased at Palace Cinemas in seven cities across Australia until the 16th of November.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ke Huy Quan and Jonathan Wang, actor and producer of the film Everything, Everywhere, All at once.

Thanks to his interpretation of Data in The Goonies, Ke Huy Quan is a movie legend. Almost 40 years after that film, he’s back as protagonist in Everything Everywhere All at Once by The Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, starring alongside Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and James Hong. With its depiction of a multiverse, the film manages to be, at the same time,a love story, about family, about the emotional weight we carry in life and so many other things. With his producer Jonathan Wang, Ke Huy Quan talks about his experience in the film and his big comeback.

Everything, Everywhere, All at once: Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Luis De Filippis, director of the film Something you said last night.

For her debut feature film, Something youi said last night, screening in the feature film competition at the 18th Zurich Film Festival,Luis De Filippis chooses to portray a Canadian-italian family during their holidays. The film doesn’t want to focus on one of its protagonists,Renata (Carmen Madonia), being a transgender woman but instead on the family dynamics with their defects and their positive aspects. While not pointing all her attention on Madonia,still manages to depict all the struggles and fights a transgender woman has to go through nowadays. Something you said last night is a film where silences speak louder than words.

Something you said last night: Italian-Canadian Ren goes on vacation with her parents and younger sister, Siena. Her family doesn’t know that the twenty-something transwoman has recently lost her job. Ren tries to cope with a resort geared towards retirees and her parents’ lovingly arrogant ways, while her sister keeps them all on their toes with her rebellious outbursts. Knowing that Ren will be even more dependent on her parents for support after the holidays, the vacation home feels increasingly like it’s shrinking. Luis de Filippis tells in this refreshingly cliché-free movie of family dynamics and explores a Millennial’s contradictory desire to be independent yet cared for.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ari Folman, director of the film Where is Anna Frank.

After presenting it at the Festival de Cannes, out of competition, Ari Folman is in Italy to present Where is Anna Frank, his new film rediscovering the story of Frank, seen through the eyes of her imaginary friend, Kitty. The film will be released in Italian cinemas by Lucky Red on September 29th and it uses a fable-like language to address the younger audience and dialogue with the contemporary world.

Where is Anna Frank: Following his internationally-acclaimed animated movie Waltz with Bashir, Golden Globe Award winner & Academy Award® nominated director #AriFolman returns with his new animated family film #WhereIsAnneFrank, an adaptation of Anne Frank’s internationally-loved classic The Diary of a Young Girl. Kitty, the imaginary girl to whom Anne Frank wrote her famous diary, comes to life in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Her memories reawakened by reading the diary, believing that if she’s alive, Anne must be alive as well, she sets out on a quest to find Anne. We follow Kitty as she travels across Europe and back to Anne Frank’s time, armed with the precious book, in search of her beloved friend…

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Lukas Dhont, director of the film Close

Lukas Dhont’ second feature Close is an homage to friendship, says the director at the 18th Zurich Film Festival where the film has been presented in the Gala premieres section. The Belgian director reveals how he dedicated the film to the friends he lost while growing up and how he got the idea of his second work thanks to his mom who pushed him to write about what he knows and cares about. Close also shows how friendships can be poisoned, especially during the teenage years, by the constant need of society for labelling and defining gender, relationships, affection, masculinity, femininity and sexual orientation

Close: Ever since they can remember, Léo and Rémi have been inseparable friends. Throughout the summer, the two 13-year-olds roam through fields and meadows, chase each other on their bikes along country roads, and spend the night together. But with the start of the new school year, their intimate friendship is strained – the natural physical closeness of the two boys has not gone unnoticed by their classmates. A fatal event soon turns Léo and Rémi’s lives completely upside down. Belgian director Lukas Dhont tells with extraordinary tenderness the heart-breaking story of a youthful friendship at a crossroads. Dhont, who won the Golden Eye at ZFF 2018 with his debut feature GIRL, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes this year.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Edward Berger, director of the film Im Westen nichts Neues / All Quiet on the Western Front.

At the 18th Zurich Film Festival, Edward Berger presents his new film, All Quiet on the Western Front, the first German adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist world bestseller. The director comments on his approach to the topic of war, his way of portraying it through the eyes of the young boys who had been brainwashed into thinking World War I was going to be fast and victorious and instead, they found death and violence.

Im Westen nichts Neues / All Quiet on the Western Front: Germany, World War I. A romanticised idea of heroism motivates the student Paul Bäumer to volunteer for the army at the age of 19. Full of patriotic zeal, he completes basic training before going to the Western Front with his comrades. In the trenches, however, it’s not long before Paul’s worldview is shattered and he is forced to experience first-hand how initial euphoria turns into fear and despair. With Im Westen nichts Neues, Edward Berger directs the first German film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist world bestseller. With a great ensemble cast including Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch and Devid Striesow, the result is a gripping drama that impressively demonstrates the absurdity and brutality of war.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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