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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Ben Young, director, and Emma Booth, actress of the film Hounds Of Love presented at Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

FRED Film Radio had the chance to talk to Ben Young and Emma Booth, director and lead actress in Hounds of Love, here at Venice Days 2016. A tale that goes way further its gruesome premises, Hounds of Love looks deep in the psyche of a female serial killer, stuck in a titanic battle between Perversion and the primal instinct of motherhood.

HOUNDS OF LOVE. In the mid-1980’s seventeen-year-old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realizes she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Valérie Muller and Angelin Preljocaj, directors of the film Polina (Polina, Danser Sa Vie) from Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

FRED Film Radio meets with the two minds behind Polina, Danser Sa Vie, a graceful portrayal of dancing and life through the life of Polina, played brilliantly by Anastasia Shevtsova.

POLINA, DANSER SA VIE. Moscow, early 90s. Polina, aged 8, is a gifted ballerina. From a modest background, she joins the prestigious school of Professor Bojinsky, who trains dancers for the Bolshoi. He immediately grasps her tremendous potential and makes her work so hard that, at just 18, her dream finally comes true and she joins the prestigious Bolshoi. This is when she meets Adrien, a charming French dancer. He will help her to discover not only love but, more importantly, a new form of dance, more contemporary and expressive, a kind of dance that will change her life forever

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews director Alice Lowe, who talks about her film Prevenge  from the 73rd Venice Film Festival [International Critics’ Week]

Alice Lowe is a talented and funny woman who decided that she wanted to do a movie, when pregnant, about a pregnant woman with a slightly deranged mind. And we are glad she did it! With an obvious love for B movies and slasher movies she created a funny but also intense portrait of a strange relationship between a woman and the baby in her womb. With a touch of splatter, that always works.

PREVENGE. Ruth is to be a single mother, for reasons which become plain, and is also suffering from the paranoid delusion that her baby is telling her to kill people – which she duly does, over and over again. Some of the people she kills are nasty, such as the creepy specialist pet-shop owner, and the 70s disco DJ who throws up into his afro wig. But some are nice and some appear to have no connection at all with Ruth’s current situation.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews David Hansen, Enzo Sisti, Alex Barder and Andre Van Heerden, who talk about the new virtual reality experience Jesus VR – The Story Of Christ from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

JESUS VR – THE STORY OF CHRIST is a new virtual experience brought by director David Hansen that takes us through the life of Jesus from his first steps and along all his most important achievements and moments till the very end of his life. A 360 degrees travel to the life of Christ.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Martin Koolhoven and actresses Dakota Fanning and Emilia Jones, who talk about their new film Brimstone from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

BRIMSTONE. A triumphant epic of survival set in the searing wilds of the Badlands, the menacing inferno of the old American West. A tale of powerful womanhood and resistance against the unforgiving cruelty of a hell on earth. Our heroine is Liz, carved from the beautiful wilderness, full of heart and grit, hunted by a vengeful Preacher—a diabolical zealot and her twisted nemesis. But Liz is a genuine survivor; she’s no victim—a woman of fearsome strength who responds with astonishing bravery to claim the better life she and her daughter deserve. Fear not. Retribution is coming.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director James Franco and actors Ashley Greene and Austin Stowell, who talk about In Dubious Battle from Venezia 73.

IN DUBIOUS BATTLE. In California apple country nine hundred migratory workers rise up against the landowners after getting paid a fraction of the wages they were promised. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike is founded on his tragic idealism—on the “courage never to submit or yield.”

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, directors of King of the Belgians from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

KING OF THE BELGIANS. King Nicolas III of the Belgians is a lonely soul who has the growing suspicion he is leading an unfulfilling life. He embarks on a state visit to Istanbul with a British filmmaker, Duncan Lloyd, who has been commissioned by the Palace to shoot a documentary intended to polish the monarch’s rather dull image. The news breaks that Wallonia, Belgium’s southern half, has declared its independence. The King must return home at once to save his kingdom. As he and his entourage rally to depart a solar storm strikes the earth causing communications to collapse and airspace to shut down. No phones. No planes. To make matters worse, Turkish security coldly dismisses the King’s suggestion they return home by road. But the King has no intention of waiting out this storm. Lloyd, sniffing an opportunity of historical proportions, hatches a dubious escape plan that involves flowery dresses and singing Bulgarians. Thus begins their undercover odyssey across the Balkans, a journey that is loaded with lively detours, moving encounters and moments of grace. King Of The Belgians is a road movie in which a dormant King, lost in the Balkans, finally awakens.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Ulrich Seidl, who talks about his new film Safari from Venezia 73.

SAFARI. Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Fien Troch, who talks about her new film Home from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

HOME focuses on a group of youngsters and the adults that surround them. Both find it difficult to communicate and to understand each other’s closed-off world. Into this community of two struggling generations arrives 17-year-old Kevin. He goes to live with his aunt and his cousin Sammy, where he starts an apprenticeship as a plumber. Once in his new home, things are a little awkward at first, but Kevin does his best to be polite and nice. He establishes a bond with his aunt and Sammy. Through Sammy’s circle of friends Kevin gets to know John, who lives an unbearable situation with his single mother. Little by little, a strong friendship begins to develop between Kevin and John. As we discover that John’s situation at home becomes unbearable, Kevin feels the urge to help his new friend. Then one evening fate intervenes and questions of betrayal, trust and loyalty start to direct their daily lives more than ever.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Philippe Falardeau and actors Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts, who talk about their new film The Bleeder from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

THE BLEEDER is the true story of Chuck Wepner, the man who inspired the billion-dollar film series Rocky—a liquor salesman from New Jersey who went 15 rounds with the greatest boxer of all time, Muhammad Ali. In his ten years in the ring, Wepner endured 2 knockouts, 8 broken noses, 313 stitches. But his toughest fights were outside the ring: an epic life of drugs, booze, wild women, incredible highs and extraordinary lows.

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