If you’ve heard that Jeeg Robot was Italy’s first superhero, you’ve heard wrong.
Screening times and locations:
June 15 @ 7:00pm Cinema Guzzo – Montreal
June 15 @ 5:00pm Cinema Cartier – Quebec City
June 17 @ 7:00pm Cinematheque Quebecois – Montreal
The winner of The European Film Awards Young Audience Award 2015, Il Ragazzo Invisibile (The Invisible Boy) will be screened at this year’s ICFF Canada.
Screening times and locations:
June 15 @ 7:00pm Cinema Guzzo – Montreal
June 15 @ 5:00pm Cinema Cartier – Quebec City
June 17 @ 7:00pm Cinematheque Quebecois – Montreal
Starring Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and Ludovico Girardello as the young super-hero, this is the one to take the kids to. Giandello plays Michele, a shy and rather unpopular boy (his Mom’s the police chief, that doesn’t help) who discovers super-powers when he’s wearing a less-than-exciting Halloween costume.
Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores directed the film with cross-media tie-ins to comic books and a graphic novel created by the screenwriters and the aim to appeal to pre-teen and family audiences. Though there are a few instances of language and situations in the film that I wondered if American parents might object to for their 10 or 11-year-olds (nothing shocking, but the Italian equivalent of the F word might raise some eyebrows), I reminded myself that Italians don’t seem to be quite as bothered about stuff like this, and that for the greater part, this film is everything a good kids’ movies should be.
For one thing, it’s exciting, and not in that watered down Hollywood way. The villains are real, pose an authentically scary threat to the children, and aren’t all fantasy-world villains. Michele fights crime while he deals with questions about his self-esteem, his identity, his relationship with him mom, bullies at school, and, of course, girls.
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