What do you want first, the GOOD NEWS or the EVEN BETTER NEWS?
The good news, I’m going to the Venice Film Festival again this year, my 4th of the festival’s 71. It’s one of my favorite events, second only to New York’s Open Roads: New Italian Cinema in June. The films in competition will be announced tomorrow and I am at the edge of my seat waiting to hear.
The even better news, Ivano De Matteo’s new movie, I Nostri Ragazzi will premier as an official selection of the Giornate Degli Autori, Venice Days. The film is based on the popular and dark book, The Dinner, but Dutch author Herman Koch.
I NOSTRI RAGAZZI – THE DINNER
by Ivano De Matteo
with Alessandro Gassmann, Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Luigi Lo Cascio, Barbora Bobulova
Italy, world premiere
production Rodeo Drive
world sales Rai Com
Once a month, for years now, two brothers whose personalities and life choices couldn´t be more different – one a top lawyer, the other a politically engaged pediatrician, their respective wives perennially at war with each other have met at a fancy restaurant, until one night, their kids pull off a stunt stupid enough to upset the precarious balance of the two families. The new film by the director of Balancing Act erupts into the bourgeois existence of the two households and blows it off its foundations.
Also from Italy:
Patria
by Felice Farina
with Francesco Pannofino, Roberto Citran, Carlo Gabardini
Italy, world premiere
production Nina Film
with support of MiBACT
Film Commission Torino Piemonte
A factory worker, a labor unionist and an office worker, holed up on the top of a tower while their factory is in the throes of closing due to the economic crisis, go over their shared past and relive the transitions in Italy´s recent history over thirty dramatic decades, from the assassination of Aldo Moro to the present day. From afar, high in the sky, they gaze at a country they can no longer work out. Neither a paean to memory, nor an instant movie about the recession, the film is an entire generation´s stream of consciousness. Based on the book by the same name by Enrico Deaglio.
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