If I love you, do I know you? If I love you, do I understand you? If I love you, do I want to be with you? And if I love you, why shouldn't you scare me? You know, love and intimacy are not synonymous. And maybe, I don't want to be intimate with you.
Hosted once again at the Venice Film Festival just a few months after the success of Challengers (2024), Luca Guadagnino returns to the screen with…
The web is a prolific space for the circulation of what is not properly matter. Indeed, the moving force in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movie Kairo is an Internet site that shows bleak glimpses of lonely, motionless, grieving, silent, or simply bizarre individuals. Their walls are covered with requests for help. A white script on a black background asks if you want to see a ghost, leaving the feeling that those people no longer belong in this world. Ultimately, Kairo exploits the…
“No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.”
1947, a Holocaust survivor, Jewish architect Làszlò Tòth, arrives in Philadelphia. Born in Hungary, prior to the war he was an architect of the Bauhaus school. Architect of works that, in wartime terrain, remain resolutely standing. And who, as in the traditional genesis of men of genius, from poverty and misery, will find himself the father of one of the most ambitious projects in…
Fake gods sentenced to the gallows. Opening film at the 77th Locarno International Film Festival, Le Déluge is a historical drama directed by Italian filmmaker Gianluca Jodice, at his second feature film. It is 1972, the apex of the French Revolution and year of the foundation of the First Republic.
In a spacious hall with a checkered floor, disassembled pieces of furniture, drab and baroque, are improvised to welcome some, emeritus, guests. We are in the Tour du Temple Prison…
Presented on September 1st at the 80th Venice International Film Festival and winner of the prestigious Golden Lion, Poor Things is the latest feature by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. A master of postmodern and surrealist cinema, Lanthimos has established himself on an international level as a representative of the Greek Weird Wave Movement. Poor Things marks his second feature film screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival, following the achievement of the 2018 Grand Jury Prize awarded to his…
Beau is Afraid is easily the most experimental movie yet directed by the talented filmmaker Ari Aster, as well as another A24 production bet. The film is enjoyable both as surreal, grotesque and unpredictable odyssey and as a true interpretive challenge, in which the viewer is required to make an active effort in understanding the meaning behind the picture.
Interesting interpretative key, is that of a journey, not physical but mental, that Beau undertakes in an attempt to emancipate himself…
