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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Gia Coppola, director of the film Mainstream.

If it wasn’t for its setting, in the world of social media addiction, second feature film by Gia Coppola, Mainstream, screening at the 77th Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section, we could easily see the story of Frankie as the perfect fit in a classic movie era. Gia Coppola reveals her fascination for Elia Kazan’s A face in the crowd and admits this film’s influence into this old fashioned tale that she describes as “A love story of being in love with someone who doesn’t love themselves set against the new emerging culture of today’s world”.

Mainstream: Just above Hollywood Boulevard lives Frankie, a young woman in her early 20s trying to navigate who she wants to be. With the death of Frankie’s father still lingering, Frankie knows she wants to do something of meaning but isn’t sure how and with the world in a current state of so much content and narcissism, it’s hard to not “compare and despair.” Stuck working as a bartender at a corner comedy club with her best friend Jake, Frankie questions what people today really value. It isn’t until she has a few cosmic run-ins with the mysterious Link, a man that seems to live life without rules that it inspires Frankie to lm him and upload his anti-mainstream rants onto the internet. Together, with the help of Jake, this unlikely band of outsiders rise to internet stardom. However, it’s hard to stay sane when the pressure of relevancy becomes important and new characters, like manager Mark, start making demands to bring in money. To make matters more complicated, Frankie and Link start getting romantically entwined. Frankie watches as Link becomes the epitome of everything he once denounced. It isn’t until Link publicly humiliates a young fan Isabel and Jake quits the team that Frankie really questions if she is also becoming the monster she helped create. A love story of being in love with someone who doesn’t love themselves set against the new emerging culture of today’s world.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Maya Hawke, actress of the film Mainstream.

The audience fell in love with her thanks to her participation in Stranger Things and now Maya Hawke is the protagonist of Gia Coppola’s second feature film, Mainstream, screening at the 77th Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section. The actress and singer plays Frankie, a lonely and old fashioned girl desperately looking to find her place in the world and waiting to make a difference. Starring opposite Maya Hawke is Andrew Garfield playing a guy who is as lost as Frankie but in a magnetic and enigmatic way. Maya Hawke talks about her character focusing in particular on a scar on her character’s face: the key to her weakest point but also a soft way to connect with her and her past.

Mainstream: Just above Hollywood Boulevard lives Frankie, a young woman in her early 20s trying to navigate who she wants to be. With the death of Frankie’s father still lingering, Frankie knows she wants to do something of meaning but isn’t sure how and with the world in a current state of so much content and narcissism, it’s hard to not “compare and despair.” Stuck working as a bartender at a corner comedy club with her best friend Jake, Frankie questions what people today really value. It isn’t until she has a few cosmic run-ins with the mysterious Link, a man that seems to live life without rules that it inspires Frankie to lm him and upload his anti-mainstream rants onto the internet. Together, with the help of Jake, this unlikely band of outsiders rise to internet stardom. However, it’s hard to stay sane when the pressure of relevancy becomes important and new characters, like manager Mark, start making demands to bring in money. To make matters more complicated, Frankie and Link start getting romantically entwined. Frankie watches as Link becomes the epitome of everything he once denounced. It isn’t until Link publicly humiliates a young fan Isabel and Jake quits the team that Frankie really questions if she is also becoming the monster she helped create. A love story of being in love with someone who doesn’t love themselves set against the new emerging culture of today’s world.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Michel Reihlac, co-director Venice VR Expanded.

Michel Reilhac is the best person to talk about VR, for his experience, his vision and passion for interactive storytelling . We analyse the 2020 edition of Venice VR, we listen to the narration of the evolutions of Vr filmmaking and the new frontiers of this fast-growing world of images and experience.

To discover more about this edition of Venice VR Expanded, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Tommaso Frangini, director of the film Finis Terrae.

A conversation with Tommaso Frangini, director of Finis Terrae, presented at the Settimana della Critica (SIC@SIC), the parallel and independent strand of the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Here, Frangini talks about the autobiographical aspect of this story and the symbolic significance of the wilderness where it was filmed, among other things.

Finis Terrae: Travis and Peter are childhood friends. They decide to go on a camping trip to reconnect with each other, but the desolate nature which surrounds them will highlight their differences and the distance that separates them.

To discover more about the film Finis Terrae, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Alec Utgoff, actor of the film Never Gonna Snow Again.

A conversation with Alec Utgoff, lead actor of Never Gonna Snow Again, directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert, and presented in competition at he 77th Venice International Film Festival. Utgoff talks about the spiritual nature of the film and tells us whether he feels he is a spiritual person. He also shares his experience of working with the director, who left him room to explore and even improvise, and more.

Never Gonna Snow Again: A masseur from the East enters the lives of the rich residents of a bland, walled off community. Despite their wealth, the residents emit an inner sadness, a longing. The mysterious newcomer’s hands heal, his eyes seem to penetrate their souls. To them, his Russian accent sounds like a song from the past, a memory of their seemingly safer childhood. Zhenia, for this is his name, changes their lives.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Andrei Konchalovsky, director of the film Dear Comrades!.

A conversation with filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsky, who presented his latest film, Dear Comrades!, in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. The film revisits a true event that occurred in the early ’60s in the Soviet Union and we ask him about the challenges of revisiting history in cinema. He also reveals the influence of Greek mythology and talks about the style of Dear Comrades!, sharing that it was inspired by the films of that period.

Dear Comrades!: USSR, Novocherkassk, 1962. Lyudmila is a member of the local Communist Party. She’s a staunch upholder of the Communist regime and ideals and despises any form of dissent. During a labour strike at the local electromotive factory, she witnesses the shooting on the protesters by the Army sent by the government to quell the strike: a massacre. An event that will change her vision of the world forever. The city is torn apart by riots, arrests, hasty convictions and by the curfew. Many people are injured and several ones are missing. Precisely in those days Lyudmila’s daughter disappears into thin air and the woman starts an anguished, dangerous and relentless search, in spite of the blockade of the city, the arrests and the attempt at a cover-up by the authorities. The movie is based on a true story that happened on June 2nd, 1962 in Novocherkassk and kept secret until the Nineties. The investigation was started in 1992. The victims were secretly buried in graves under fake names so they could never be found. Major suspects among the top Soviet officials were dead at that time. Culprits have never been convicted.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Julia Vysotskaya, actress of the film Dear Comrades!.

A conversation with Julia Vysotskaya, lead actress of Andrei Konchalovsky’s film, Dear Comrades!, presented in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. The film is based on a true story and we ask her whether she feels her performance humanizes history, as well as whether she feels that one of the differences of this film to similars is that the protagonist is a woman. We also ask her about connecting with her character and about the meaning of the term “comrades.”

Dear Comrades!: USSR, Novocherkassk, 1962. Lyudmila is a member of the local Communist Party. She’s a staunch upholder of the Communist regime and ideals and despises any form of dissent. During a labour strike at the local electromotive factory, she witnesses the shooting on the protesters by the Army sent by the government to quell the strike: a massacre. An event that will change her vision of the world forever. The city is torn apart by riots, arrests, hasty convictions and by the curfew. Many people are injured and several ones are missing. Precisely in those days Lyudmila’s daughter disappears into thin air and the woman starts an anguished, dangerous and relentless search, in spite of the blockade of the city, the arrests and the attempt at a cover-up by the authorities. The movie is based on a true story that happened on June 2nd, 1962 in Novocherkassk and kept secret until the Nineties. The investigation was started in 1992. The victims were secretly buried in graves under fake names so they could never be found. Major suspects among the top Soviet officials were dead at that time. Culprits have never been convicted.

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