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At 81th Venice Film Festival FRED Film Radio interviewed director Isabella Torre and actor Elliot Crosset Hove to talk about “Basileia”, closing film of Giornate degli Autori 2024.

Realism and supernatural elements. How did Isabelle Torre get the idea for “Basileia” ? Is there an element or an image that influenced her and her vision? Especially given the connection to her short film “Nymphs”. “I shot it, of course, before the feature, but I was already writing the script at the moment, so it was more or less a test for me to see if it was going to work. Everything you see in the film, basically, is being inspired by the area where we shot the film. I would say that it’s not just the backdrop, it’s actually another protagonist of the story. And the Aspromonte itself suggests to me this idea of having such a real, rough nature, a force of nature that’s taking over everything, that you feel so present and so touchable. But at the same time, it’s almost so real. Every time I would go there, the experience was different. Just because of the changing of light, or the weather, or a tree on the road, and you have to change route, and you suddenly discover something incredible. The fog, which is, I think, another character of the film. I’ve been spending a long time in Aspromonte before shooting the film, or even writing the script. And the more I would just go there, the more the images would come to my head, and step by step I started putting them together”.

In the film Elliot Crosset Hove plays an archaeologist searching for hidden treasure. A very physical role too thanks to the sequences shot in the woods. “It’s been absolutely amazing. And I think the physical part that you’re talking about is that’s just a big gift, because the nature that Isabella was talking about does a lot of the work for you. As an actor, you just really just look at the elements, and then something happens to you. So it was tough, but in absolutely the most beautiful way. Isabella gave me confidence, and time, and love, and then I got to see her previous work, The Nymphs, and that was amazing. Because it gave me a sense of her style, and a sense of what we were going to do here. A very magical thing was that Isabella said to me before we started the shooting. ‘Just relax’. And that was amazing, because I felt that I was taken care of”.

Did Isabelle Torre have any visual references for the nymphs? “There’s a lot of art that inspired me. All the pre-raffaelliti work, but even Caravaggio, because of the light. I definitely drew a lot from it, and especially from the mythology, even though in the end they’re so different from everything that they have been in the past. We can call them nymphs, but they’re actually just creatures, ethereal beings, they’re a force of nature, they’re unstoppable. They might be lethal, but at the end of the day, they’re just trying to survive, adapt, and adapt the environment around them, and proliferate”.

What Isabella Torre hopes people will take emotionally from “Basileia” ? “I really hope that they will take the chance of just let themselves go with the flow of not really knowing. Not necessarily defined everything that’s around us. The film is mysterious, it doesn’t explain everything, and it was important to me that it would stay like that. Because I feel like sometimes we try with our human minds to put everything on the right shelf, with the right tag. Especially right now, where tags are all over. But some things are just like mysterious and they’re important even because they’re mysterious”.

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Welcome to our daily insights from the 81. Venice International Film Festival, with Angelo Acerbi.

Join us as we dive into exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors, and festival insiders, uncovering the stories behind the most anticipated films.

Stay tuned for festival highlights, red carpet moments, and behind-the-scenes glimpses that you won’t want to miss.

Whether you’re a film buff or just curious, we’ve got all the excitement from Venice right here!

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Welcome to our daily insights from the 81. Venice International Film Festival, with Angelo Acerbi, David Martos and Maria Bonsanti.

Join us as we dive into exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors, and festival insiders, uncovering the stories behind the most anticipated films.

Stay tuned for festival highlights, red carpet moments, and behind-the-scenes glimpses that you won’t want to miss.

Whether you’re a film buff or just curious, we’ve got all the excitement from Venice right here!

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“Stranger Eyes” is directed by Yeo Siew Hua and is included in the Competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Ina thriller form, the film faces the issues of privacy, visibility and control: being watched and wtahc otehr, being controlled through cameras, choosing to be seen are all aspects that modernity and technology have brought into our lives. And we have to deal with them, as the characters in the film have too.

The thesis of “Stranger eyes” is that in our ties we cannot escape been seen and observed, wether we like it or not. On this premise, Yeo Siew Hua based the writing and creation of his film, as he explains in our talk.

“Stranger Eyes” was conceived over a long period of time, first because it was difficult to fund, then the pandemic came and the world changed, and technology as well; so it needed a refresh before the finalized script to make it actual and contemporary.

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“April” is the second feature film from Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili, in competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. The main topic of the film is womanhood in a rural area where a female gynaecologist, Nina, is trying to help women to free form the heaviest imposition of patriarchy, risking her job in the process. but it is more than that, as the director tells us in this interview

Dea Kulumbegashvili, director of “April“, comes from the same area narrated in the film, she was child of a teenage mom: basically her preparation for the film unconsciously started very back in the past.

The astounding visuals of “April” are often enhanced by simple steady shots of nature. Dea Kulumbegashvili explains the function of this choice, made both for the sake of the film and for herself

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The Venice Production Bridge day in 4 minutes!

Welcome to our Venice Production Bridge Daily Snapshot, your quick 4-minute update on the latest happenings at the industry hub of the Venice Film Festival!

Join us as we delve into the world of film financing, co-productions, and market trends, bringing you exclusive insights, interviews with industry professionals, and behind-the-scenes highlights, all packed into a brief but informative segment.

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Welcome to our daily insights from the 27 Times Cinema.

The 2024 edition of 27 Times Cinema will bring together ten former participants to serve as the jury for the GdA Director’s Award, marking the tenth anniversary of this accolade.

Together with their jury president, these former 27 Times Cinema participants will evaluate the films in competition with a fresh perspective, informed by their diverse experiences across various film-industry fields.

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Welcome to our daily insights from the 81. Venice International Film Festival, with Angelo Acerbi and Fedra Fateh.

Join us as we dive into exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors, and festival insiders, uncovering the stories behind the most anticipated films.

Stay tuned for festival highlights, red carpet moments, and behind-the-scenes glimpses that you won’t want to miss.

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Every day from the Venice Lido, Rita Di Santo hosts in the studios of FRED Film Radio several critics from all over the world talking about this year’s Venice festival movies, the actors and actresses attending the festival, as well as takes you into the magical atmosphere of the Venice Film Festival.

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“I’m Still Here” ( Ainda Estou Aqui) is Walter Salles’ title in the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival. The film stars Fernanda Torres, that  our reporter Angelo Acerbi met together with the director, after the press conference for the premiere on the Lido. the film narrates the story of Ruben Paiva, an architect who became a martyr and a hero for Brasil, whose wife fought for a lifetime to have him declared dead and acknowledged.

Walter Salles tells about his personal connection with the Paiva family, with the house in Rio where they lived and with the kids, included Marcelo Paiva who is the author of the book which the film “I’m Still Here” is inspired to.

Fernanda Torres  was honoured to be given the role of such a strong and important woman, both a pillar for her family and a militant lawyer for the new  Brasil that blossomed after the dictatorship. We hear from her voice  how much the film I’m Still Here means for her.

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