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After successfully premiering at the 19th edition of Rome International Film Festival, “Hey Joe” by Claudio Giovannesi is finally hitting Italian cinemas on November 28th distributed by Vision Distribution. 

Written by Giovannesi with Maurizio Braucci and Massimo Gaudioso, “Hey Joe” is produced by Palomar together with RAI Cinema, in collaboration with Vision Distribution, Sky and Netflix. 

Playing the lead in “Hey Joe” is US actor, director, screenwriter and producer, James Franco. He plays Dean Barry, a US veteran from New Jersey who, at the beginning of the ‘70s . decides to return to Naples in Italy to look for the son he had with the Neapolitan girl he had a relationship with during the Second World War. 

He’s looking to make up for a 25-year absence, but his son is now a man, he’s grown up and he’s been adopted and raised by a smuggling boss and he has no interest in his American father.

Quoting James Franco: “This is a movie about somebody that stops running away and now is leaning in to something positive, hope”. 

“Hey Joe” is a film about second chances and hope for redemption. 

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Dissident‘s producer Aleksandr Omelyanov explains the reason for producing a film that tells a story based on the politically complex history of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and how he and the director decided to navigate the difficult balance between historical accuracy and creative storytelling.

Dima Yaroshenko explains how he approached the character he plays in the film, working on the many layers of the personality of his character. Dissident creates a strong link between the events that happened in the 70’s and 80’s in Ukraine and its ongoing struggle for identity and independence.

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“Nina” by Andrea Jaurrieta is in competition at the 42°Torino Film Festival.

The film is a thriller drama starring Patricia López Arnaiz and it is defined by its author as a contemporary western. 

Jaurrieta investigates on the meaning of vengeance and whether it can be a solution as violence should never be fought with violence. 

López Arnaiz is “Nina“, a woman deciding to return to her hometown after many many years to finally get her revenge with the man who destroyed her life, played on screen by Darío Grandinetti.

Of her film, Andrea Jaurrieta wrote in her director’s notes: “Through Nina I first want to talk about abuse, make a reflection on where the limits of consent are. A subject that crosses cultural barriers and affects all societies in a transversal way. In my opinion, there is an urgent need to reflect on abuse from an active feminine point of view. Not from victimization, but from the psychological and social complexity that figures in this kind of relationship.”

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Actress Rosario Dawson has been honoured by the Stella della Mole Award at the 42 Torino Film Festival, where she also presented the film “Kids” by Larry Clark, her first ever appearance on screen. In this nice chat we talked about her beginning, her relationship with Hollywood and the star system, and the will and capacity of staying down to earth.

Rosario Dawson recalls for us how everything started: the chance of meeting Larry Clark when she was very young, the faith her parents had in her in order to let her star in “Kids” and alla that followed. Even if she was looking for a ‘real’ job, she entered the movie business and never left.

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Ron Howard inaugurates the 42 Torino Film Festival with the international premiere of “Eden“, his last intense drama with Jude Law, Ana De Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Bruhl and Sydney Sweeney. The director is also the recipient of the Stella Della Mole Award, that the national Museum of Cinema of Torino gives to outstanding film personality for their work and career.

Ron Howard chose three very intense and completely different actress to play the three women that in the filma re those who carry the lives of their men, with complete opposite results and motivations, but all with the same strength and determination. The cast was made on underlining those difference and that common force.

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