The Coming Attractions

I love the coming attractions – grab some popcorn and join me for a few Italian movies that we’ll surely see – hopefully in the near future – on screens and in DVDs in America.

Dieci Inverni, Ten Winters, released in Italy in 2009 and directed by Valerio Mieli. It’s a love story set in Venice with Isabella Ragonese (Nuovomondo) and Michele Riondino ( Named as one of European films’ Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion in 2010). The movie follows the characters and their relationship through 10 winters – it’s darling – and it played at a lot of film festivals in the US. I’d be surprised it it weren’t released in the US, at least on DVD.

In the beginning of this trailer Camilla and Silvestro, who have just met, share a bed (because it’s cold and because Camilla is obviously a little naive). They introduce themselves and when she says her name is Camilla, he says, “Nice name.”
“Do you really think so?” asks Camilla.
“No, but I thought I should say so,” admits Silvestro.
If you have a region free DVD player, the PAL region 2 version has English subtitles – so see it if you can.

Look for Noi Credevamo, We Believed, at film festivals and hopefully in US theaters. It stars my favorite – Luigi Lo Cascio (hurray!), and Tony Servillo (Gomorra). It’s about Italy’s unification in the 1800s and it looks spectacular. Would it be too much to ask to keep it in the theaters until I get to Rome in February?

And one more – look for this one at film festivals and art houses this year – Un Altro Mondo, Another World. Just released in Italy this Christmas, it stars and was directed by the cutie pie Silvio Muccino and looks amazing. It’s about a shallow young man, played by Muccino, who finds that he has a half brother, a little African boy, and forms a relationship with him that changes his life. Isabella Ragonese from Dieci Inverni is in this one – I think she’s one of those rising stars too!