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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Kei Ishikawa, director of the film A Man.

An interview with Kei Ishikawa, director of A Man. The film was presented in the Orizzonti section of the 79th Venice Film Festival. The director discusses the topic of identity, which has inspired many filmmakers of the past. He also stops to think whether it is possible to become someone else and start anew. We also speak with him about the mystery side of the movie and the rhythm of A Man.

A Man: Akira, who works as a lawyer, receives a request from Rie, one of her former clients. Rie wants to do a background check on her deceased husband, Daisuke. Previously, after getting a divorce, Rie moved back to her hometown where she raised her child alone before eventually meeting Daisuke and marrying him. They had started a happy family of four with the addition of a new child, when one day, Daisuke died in a tragic accident. Stricken with grief, the family holds a memorial service, where Daisuke’s estranged brother Kyoichi appears. To everyone’s surprise, when he sees the photo of his dead brother, he remarked that the man in the photo was not his brother. So, was Rie’s beloved “Daisuke” actually someone else? Then who was the “man” and why was he impersonating another person? Akira in his private investigation encounters an array of people in his pursuit to identify the man who had lived his life as a different person. He starts to close in on a shocking truth to reveal the identity of the mystery man, but the truth becomes more and more worrisome.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Bobi Wine, protagonist of the film Bobi Wine: Ghetto President.

An interview with Ugandan musician-turned-political activist Bobi Wine. He is the protagonist of a new documentary titled Bobi Wine: Ghetto President, presented at the 79th Venice Film Festival. Bobi Wine talks with us about his struggles, which led him from being a music superstar to being the leader of the opposition to Uganda’s current military regime. He talks about the importance of having his wife’s support and shares with us whether he hopes this new documentary will help spread the message of what is happening in Uganda in other parts of the world.

Bobi Wine: Ghetto President: This observational documentary film follows Bobi Wine and his wife Barbie. Bobi rises from the ghetto slums of Kampala to one of the country’s most loved superstars. His musical talent lifts him and emboldens millions of previously voiceless people. Bobi uses his music for activism, then becomes an Independent Member of Parliament to stand to defend the rights of his people, the ghetto people. Bobi’s wife, Barbie, by standing with him, plunges her own life into uncertainty. The film is an examination of the disturbing misuse of the legal and parliamentary systems, two supposed pillars of democracy. The country’s institutions are controlled by the State to ensure President Museveni, an autocratic strongman, who has held power since 1986, continues to rule Uganda. Bobi and Barbie must risk everything, their lives and their futures to challenge him. The state is determined to silence, not only them, but anyone who supports their cause. This is not just a story for Uganda, it is a narrative for all those who struggle under dictatorial regimes. Those who oppose them quickly discover that Western democracies have interests that do not extend to holding autocrats to account. This story has never been so relevant.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, director of the Venice Production Bridge.

On the eve of the 2022 edition of Venice Production Bridge, we talk with Pascal Diot, its director, about the highlights and news of this edition.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Wissam Charaf, director of the film Dirty Difficult Dangerous.

Wissam Charaf talks about his film, Dirty Difficult Dangerous and the challenge of managing important and very serious issues through the tale of a love story between two outsiders in contemporary Lebanon. He explains his will of avoiding a “lament” film while focusing on love and on the fantastic sides of it.

Dirty Difficult Dangerous: Beirut, Lebanon, the present. Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker, are living an impossible love of stolen kisses on street corners. While Mehdia tries to free herself from her employers, Ahmed struggles to survive by selling scrap metal, while affected by a mysterious disease. The two lovers may have no future, but they also have nothing to lose. One day, they seize their chance and flee Beirut, in a desperate attempt to start over elsewhere, as Ahmed’s physical condition starts to gets worse.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mark Cousins, director of the film March on Rome.

Mark Cousins talks about his latest film, March on Rome, presented at the Giornate degli Autori independent section of the 79th Venice International Film Festival. The film depicts the ascent of Fascis in Italy and its fallout across 1930s Europe. Cousins also talks with us about his connection to Italy, masculinity and performance, and the archival centrepiece of his film: Umberto Paradisi’s 1922 propaganda film, A Noi.

 The March on Rome: Through little-seen archival material and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. In The March on Rome, which is simultaneously an essay film and a historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the here and now, holding a mirror up to a political landscape marked by a creeping far right and manipulated media.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival.

Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival. In this second episode, Matt is joined by Angelo Acerbi to talk about some of the top films that have been screening at the lido, including Noah Baumbach’s new film, White Noise, which officially opened the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival. We also talk about a documentary about Ugandan musician-turned-activist-turned-politician Bobi Wine, the Orizzonti film A Man by Kei Ishikawa and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival.

In this first episode, Matt is joined by top FRED correspondents Angelo Acerbi and David Martos, and all three share their thoughts on the films they are looking forward to seeing the most at the lido. Films discussed also include two from the Giornate degli Autori: Mark Cousin’s March on Rome and Wissam Charaf’s Dirty Difficult Dangerous, as well as the festival’s special pre-opening event, a special screening of Henri King’s Stella Dallas from 1925 with live orchestral score curated in partnership with the MoMA.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Greta Gerwig, actress of the film White Noise.

Greta Gerwig is the co-protagonist, with Adam Driver, of White Noise by Noah Baumbach, opening film at the 79th edition of Venice International Film Festival. Based on Don De Lillo’s book of 1985, the film, despite talking about a world and an America of the past, feels like it talks about today’s world. Greta Gerwig confirms this intuition as White Noise, as Baumbach wrote, presents us with the strategies and routines that we’ve invented to make the idea of death acceptable”. The film also deals with another universal theme, family, depicting its chaos and rules.

White Noise: At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatises a contemporary American family’s attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Sophie Marceau, actress of the film A Woman.

In Locarno, we met Sophie Marceau, who presented her new film in which she stars, A Woman, in the Piazza Grande section. We asked her about her new role and how she prepared herself, but we also talked about her lengthy film career and French cinema.

A Woman: Juliane, a police commissioner in Paris, is a woman with great moral integrity. But when she discovers her husband’s double life, she starts committing acts she never would have thought herself capable of…

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Anna Eriksson, director of the film W.

What does W mean? We asked Anna Eriksson to metaphorically accompany us through the long corridors in which her new film is set to tell us about the suggestions that inspired her for this new visionary work.

W: Europe is a mortally sick woman who is killing time with her Chinese Man Machine. They are at their last post. Outside lies a snow-covered wasteland. Elsewhere, on a glacier is an institute, where a group of nurses are faithfully playing their regressive part in the execution of a new world order. Their trance is disrupted by a stranger. All is lost. The final act is about to begin.

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