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

Pascal Diot talks about the ten years anniversary of Venice Production Bridge, going through the sections , the changes and the modifications that the pandemic years forced upon the event.

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PODCAST | Ilaria Gomarasca interviews Ola Jankowska, director of the film Anatomia.

“To me Anatomy is above all a meditation on the ambiguous space between things and people being and not being. It’s a story of potential alternative lives, ghosts and phantom feelings that don’t know how to be born and yet overwhelm – of love, loss, uncertainty.” Ola Jankowska on her first feature film Anatomia screened at Venice Giornate degli Autori 2021.

Anatomia: Mika arrives in Poland to pay a hospital visit to her father, who is suffering from severe brain injury and memory loss. It’s the first time they have met in many years, yet her father thinks they still live together and she’s a teenager. For a brief time Mika becomes her father’s companion in perplexity – gently guiding him through the labyrinth of his fading mind. And as she does so, she sets off on a journey through her own life. By merging digital, 35 mm, VHS, infrared and archival footage, the sense of time and space start breaking up: the present blends with the long gone past and places reveal their far-off history and memories. In the meantime, the father’s condition worsens. And thus life and its end also begin to blur.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Loup Bureau, director of the film Trenches.

Loup Bureau joins us at our Venice studios to talk about his latest documentary Trenches, for which he spent months on the ground documenting Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russian-backed separatists, capturing life and the ever looming presence of death.

Trenches: In Donbas Ukraine, while precarious truces and ceasefires are negotiated far away by diplomats, Ukrainian soldiers fight against separatists supported by Russia. At an age when some are experiencing the best years of their lives, in the frontline men and women are fighting, condemned to dig and dig up again the trenches, while bombs keep on falling on them. Loup Bureau takes us on an immersive and stunning cinematic journey revealing the naked truth and roughness of survival, in what is called to be the last conflict on European soil.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Gianluca Matarrese, director of the film The Last Chapter.

With his film The Last Chapter, Gianluca Matarrese closed the Cirtic’s Week at the Venice Film Festival. The film focuses on the memory of the past, the acknowledgement of it by the younger generations and the choices we make towards our memories, when we grow old. He tells us the path the film made him do personally on these issues.

The Last Chapter: Bernard has just retired. He is 63 years old, he lives alone with his two cats and decides to move to a new house, the one where he will live the last chapter of the novel of his life. Preparing the boxes, start making a selection: what do I leave here, what do I bring? Bernard is my master and I am his slave. Her latest lover. I help him to put the whip in a box, between the crumbs of his memory, the memories of the loves that AIDS has stolen from his arms, the traces of an adoptive family that rejected him, of the rigid upbringing that he forged it, of a mother and father he never knew. Our sexual games are opportunities for two generations to meet: between a whiplash and a leather harness we discuss love, death, the AIDS epidemic in the Eighties, his new life project, us. The wounds and grave goods of a survivor, a cry of life in the light of sexual impulses.

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PODCAST | Ilaria Gomarasca interviews Sofya Gershevich, actress of the film The Hand of God.

Actress Sofya Gershevich talks about her experience on the set of Paolo Sorrentino’s film The Hand of God, competing at the 78th Mostra di Venezia.

The Hand of God: The story of a young man’s heartbreak and liberation in Naples, Italy. It’s the 1980s and 17-year old Fabietto Schisa might be an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place, but he finds joy in an amazing family who love life, relish mischief and take deep pleasure in meddling in one another’s complicated relationships. Then comes a pair of events that alter everything. One is the triumphant arrival in Naples of a god-like athletic legend: high-flying soccer idol Maradona, who has Fabietto, and the whole scrappy city, feeling a pride that once seemed impossible. The other is an inconceivable accident that will drop the bottom out of Fabietto’s world, setting his future in motion. Seemingly saved by Maradona, touched by chance or the hand of God, Fabietto wrestles with the nature of fate, the confusion of loss, and the intoxicating freedom of being alive. In his most movingly personal film, Sorrentino takes audiences on a sensory journey bursting with the contrasts of tragedy and comedy, love and desire, absurdity and beauty, as Fabietto finds the only way out of total catastrophe through his own imagination.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Michael Ajao, actor of the film Last Night In Soho.

Last Night in Soho, by Edgar Wright, presents Michael Ajao in the role of the lover of a slightly deranged and visionary girl, obsessed with images and transfers form the 60’s. His character is timid, nice and will be dragged in a dangerous and weird, to say the least , situation. Let ‘s hear it from him.

Last Night In Soho: In this psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Matt Smith, actor of the film Last Night In Soho.

Matt Smith is the bad guy of Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. He plays a second class limp who tries to become someone in the low life of Swinging London in the ’60s by inducing young girls with big dreams to become prostitutes. He is a funny and nice guy, though, as you can hear yourself in this interview.

Last Night In Soho: In this psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns, director and screenwriter of the film Last Night In Soho.

Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns reveal to Fred radio the secrets behind the writing of Last Night In Soho, with all the references to the Swinging London and the mix of genres they include in the screenplay of a most entertaining films of the Venice Film Festival.

Last Night In Soho: In this psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ty Sheridan, actor of the film The Card Counter.

Ty Sheridan is Cirk ( Kirk with a C) in Paul Schrader last film The Card Counter. He seems to play a side character but he’s not. And he tells us why. Sharing the screen with Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish and an evil Willem Dafoe, he shows his craft without flaws.

The Card Counter: William Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. Tell’s meticulous life is thrown into disarray when he encounters Cirk, a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy. With backing from mysterious financier La Linda, Tell takes Cirk on the casino circuit to set him on a new path. However, he finds that the ghosts of the past will not release him so easily.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Tiffany Haddish, actress of the film The Card Counter.

Tiffany Haddish is a sassy lady. With her character of La Linda in Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, she lights up the Lido with charme and attitude. In this interview with Angelo Acerbi she tells us about the role, her poker knowledge and the fascination for Schrader’s Cat People.

The Card Counter: William Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. Tell’s meticulous life is thrown into disarray when he encounters Cirk, a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy. With backing from mysterious financier La Linda, Tell takes Cirk on the casino circuit to set him on a new path. However, he finds that the ghosts of the past will not release him so easily.

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