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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Josh O’Connor and Eva Husson, actor and  director of the film Mothering Sunday.

We met Josh O’Connor and Eva Husson on the red carpet at the Rome Film Festival for the screening of Mothering Sunday. We talked about that specific time after the First World War were men were few and crushed by guilt and expectations and women. Were still shocked by what happened years before. Eva talked about directing an adaptation of a book that was already very cinematic and about the pace of the narrative.

Mothering Sunday : England, 1924. It is a spring Sunday, and the young maid Jane Fairchild, an orphan, finds herself alone for Mother’s Day. Her employers, the wealthy Niven spouses, have gone out, and she has the rare opportunity to spend a beautiful day with her secret lover, Paul Sheringham, who is the son of the Niven’s neighbors, and is Jane’s great love, despite being in the process of getting married with another girl of his own social class, daughter of friends of the Sheringhams and a friend of Paul since the two were little. But an unpredictable event will change Jane’s life forever.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Joe Wright, director of the film Cyrano.

At the 16th Rome Film Festival, Joe Wright presents his upcoming new work, Cyrano with Peter Dinklage impersonating the famous protagonist of Edmond Rostand’s play. After working on Atonement, Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina, Wright gives his remarkable directing touch on another film adaptation from a “classic”. How can we define a classic? While answering, Joe Wright unveils his approach to this transposition by also describing his experimenting another genre such as the musical one. To discover more about the 16th Rome Film Festival click here.

Cyrano: Award-winning director Joe Wright envelops moviegoers in a symphony of emotions with music, romance, and beauty in Cyrano, re-imagining the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle. A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac (played by Peter Dinklage) dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne (Haley Bennett), Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her — and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.).

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PODCAST |  Daily news and updates from the 2021 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the first episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2021 edition of the Rome Film Fest.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jens Sjögren, director of the film I Am Zlatan.

A conversation with Jens Sjögren, director of I Am Zlatan, presented at the 2021 Rome Film Fest. The film talks about the formative years of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, one of the most iconic footballers of our time. In this interview, the director talks about what Ibrahimovic meant to him before working on this film, the universal resonance of the story of his life and more.

I Am Zlatan : Son of Balkan immigrants Zlatan Ibrahimovic, born in Sweden, becomes, after a rough childhood, a Swedish football champion of several decades.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Valdimar Jóhannsson, director of the film Lamb.

A conversation with Valdimar Jóhannsson, director of Lamb. The film was presented in the program of Alice nella Città, the parallel and independent section of the 2021 Rome Film Fest. This is a one of a kind feature set in a remote Icelandic setting, starring a childless couple whose life unexpectedly changes with the arrival of a mysterious newborn. Without giving too much away about the film, in this interview we cover such topics as humanity’s relationship with nature, empathy, the importance of the distinct desolate Icelandic setting of the movie and more.

Lamb : A childless couple, María and Ingvar discover a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland. The unexpected prospect of family life brings them much joy, before ultimately destroying them.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jessica Chastain and Vincent D’Onofrio, actors of the film The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

The 16th edition of Rome Film Festival open its doors guided by Jessica Chastain, star and producer of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, the opening film of the Fest, a cinematographic look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of the televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. On the red carpet of the Festival with co-star Vincent D’Onofrio, Jessica Chastain looks back at her filmography and analyze the many women she got to proudly portray through her career.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye: The film, based on a true story, is a look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of the televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, portrayed by Jessica Chastain. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye and her husband Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield) founded the most important American religious broadcasting network, created a major theme park and rose to fame thanks to their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. Over the years however, financial improprieties, scheming rivals and scandal toppled the multi-million dollar empire they had so carefully constructed.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews John Andreas Andersen, director of the film The North Sea.

A conversation with John Andreas Andersen, director of The North Sea, which had its premiere in the official selection of the 2021 Rome Film Fest. In this interview, the filmmaker talks about the real events and situations that inspired this spectacular disaster movie. But he also talks about wanting to entertaining the audience, while recognizing the power of genre films in sparking debates and getting people to think about serious issues.

The North Sea: On Christmas Eve in Norway, in 1969, the government made an announcement that would change the history of the country forever: one of the largest deposits of oil in the world had been discovered in the North Sea. It would be dubbed Ekofisk, and launch an unprecedented financial scramble. From that day, fifty years of experience in the oil field has provided us with abundant opportunities, but it is likely that we still haven’t fully understood the real environmental fallout from this discovery and subsequent operations extracting oil from the North Sea. Should the exploit have a future, or need we consider that fifty years ago, one of the most dangerous weapons of mass destruction in the world was discovered?

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Kristine Kujath Thorp and Henrik Bjelland, actors of the film The North Sea.

A conversation with Kristine Kujath Thorp and Henrik Bjelland, lead actors of the film The North Sea, presented in the official selection of the 2021 Rome Film Fest. They talk here about their experience of starring in this Norwegian disaster movie directed by John Andreas Andersen. They also share some of their thoughts and concerns regarding the environmentalist issues that this film touches on.

The North Sea: On Christmas Eve in Norway, in 1969, the government made an announcement that would change the history of the country forever: one of the largest deposits of oil in the world had been discovered in the North Sea. It would be dubbed Ekofisk, and launch an unprecedented financial scramble. From that day, fifty years of experience in the oil field has provided us with abundant opportunities, but it is likely that we still haven’t fully understood the real environmental fallout from this discovery and subsequent operations extracting oil from the North Sea. Should the exploit have a future, or need we consider that fifty years ago, one of the most dangerous weapons of mass destruction in the world was discovered?

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PODCAST |  Daily news and updates from the 2021 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the first episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2021 edition of the Rome Film Fest.

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PODCAST |  Daily news and updates from the 2021 Rome Film Fest, with Matt Micucci.

Matt Micucci presents the first episode of Big FRED Roma, FRED Film Radio’s English-language daily show with news and thoughts in the 2021 edition of the Rome Film Fest.

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