FRED Film Radio - English Channel

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

Pascal Dot, director of the Venice Production Bridge, gives Fred Radio the usual overview of the 2021 edition, with figures and feedbacks from the professionals who attended, always in a growing number and with positive reactions.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze, director of the film Otar’s Death.

A conversation with Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze, director of Otar’s Death, from the East of the West Competition of the 2021 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. A drama of parallel lives and a pivotal, tragic and unexpected event, the film marks Bliadze’s feature directorial debut. In this conversation, Bliadze talks about the real life events that inspired the fictional movie and the Georgian cultural context that is the backdrop of Otar’s Death. In addition to talking about his film, Bliadze also talks about showing solidarity in support for LGBTQ+ rights in Georgia at the KVIFF.

Otar’s Death : Two families, each facing its own existential difficulties, are brought together by an unfortunate event. For one family, the accident has a fatal impact; for the other, it becomes an opportunity for a better life. The film’s careful exploration of all the participants’ perspectives culminates in a meditation on human morals while not shying away from a tragicomic tone.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Glen Bay Grant, director of the film True Mirror.

A conversation with director Glen Bay Grant, part of this year’s Future Frames line-up. Future Frames is a showcase of young promising European directors organized by the European Film Promotion in collaboration with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film directed by Glen Bay Grant that will be screened as part of this program in Karlovy Vary is titled True Mirror.

True Mirror : Jacqueline works as a relationship coach and she’s used to having everything under control. Including her course participants, her son and herself. One day, however, her carefully constructed world starts to collapse when her son tells her he wants to become independent. Jacqueline now has to confront her own personal integrity and decide whether it stems from the loyalty of others or from a healthy self-confidence…

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Ricky d’Ambrose, director of the film The Cathedral.

Ricky d’Ambrose, director of The Cathedral, talks to FRED about his joining to the Biennale College Cinema project, and how the plot of The Cathedral has kept seducting him since he was a child.

The Cathedral: An only child’s meditative, impressionistic account of an American family’s rise and fall over two decades.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Matt Damon and  Jodie Comer, actors of the film The Last Duel.

Matt Damon and Jodie Comer talk with Angelo Acerbi about The Last Duel by Ridley Scott. Jodie is the heroine, an unusual, for those ages, woman who wants to be heard and seeks revenge, Matt is her husband, a knight for the king – and also one of the screenwriter of the film, with many backstories that he shares with us.

The Last Duel: A gripping tale of betrayal and vengeance set against the brutality of 14th century France. The historical epic is a cinematic and thought-provoking drama that explores the ubiquitous power of men, the frailty of justice and the strength and courage of one woman willing to stand alone in the service of truth. Based on actual events, the film unravels long-held assumptions about France’s last sanctioned duel between Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris, two friends turned bitter rivals. When Carrouges’ wife, Marguerite, is viciously assaulted by Le Gris, a charge he denies, she refuses to stay silent, stepping forward to accuse her attacker, an act of bravery and defiance that puts her life in jeopardy. The ensuing trial by combat, a grueling duel to the death, places the fate of all three in God’s hands.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Natasha Merkulova and  Alexey Chupov, directors of the film Captain Volkonogov Escaped.  

Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov give with their film Captain Volkonogov Escaped a feast for the yes, a strong political statement, and a fast paced and entertaining vision of the power. A film about moral, redemption and self-consciousness, wrapped in a hyper-pop fun paper, to enjoy thoroughly.

Captain Volkonogov Escaped: Captain Fedor Volkonogov is part of the law enforcement system. He is appreciated by the commander and respected by colleagues. But the moment comes for Captain’s life to take the abrupt turn—he is criminally charged. Captain manages to escape prior to the arrest turning in a split of the second into prey hunted down by ex-colleagues. At night Fedor receives the warning from the afterlife that he is destined for Hell and eternal torments. Though Captain still has a chance to change the destiny and be accepted to Heaven under condition that he repents and at least one person grants him sincere forgiveness. Fedor sets on a mission to find absolution having no idea of the trials he is to face on this route.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jamie Lee Curtis.

Meet Jamie Lee Curtis is an iconic actress with a gigantic career that spanned in all genre, with pivotal films in each one of them: Halloween, A fish Called Wanda, True Lies and so on. She talks about the surprise of being in Venice and recalls some of the behind the scene of her most famous scenes ( like True Lies hotel room scene, remember?)

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews  Potsy Ponciroli and Tim Blake Nelson, director and actor of the film Old Henry.

A conversation with Potsy Ponciroli and Tim Blake Nelson, respectively director and lead actor of Old Henry, screened out of competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival. This film is a western with a modernist touch and we ask whether Blake Nelson likes to inhabit this space and whether, like the character he plays in Old Henry, he has ever wanted escape into the wild. We ask Ponciroli about his movie, which he also scripted, and whether he believes that the western is particularly apt to the tumult of contemporary times.

Old Henry: is an action western about a widowed farmer and his son who warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money, the farmer must decide who to trust. Defending a siege of his homestead, the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone calling his true identity into question.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Joaquín Del Paso, director of the film The Hole in the Fence.

A conversation with Joaquín Del Paso, director of The Hole in the Fence, presented in the Orizzonti section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. The film follows first-year students of an elitist religious school in a sinister integration camp outside the city, and a mystery revolving around a hole in the fence. In this interview, Del Paso talks about the personal experiences that served as the inspiration for this movie, working with his cast to achieve the right kind of synergy and more.

The Hole in the Fence: The first-year students of an elitist religious school attend an integration camp outside the city. The tranquility is soon dissolved when a violent hole is found in the perimeter fence. This event creates a chain of mysterious incidents that will reveal a system created by the tutors to inject a fundamentalist view in the teenager’s minds.

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