Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This is movie is a story. As all the stories it is a sum of more stories, some personal, some told from some one else.
The story of Tombaroli, and of the setting, Tuscia, comes all together with Alice Rohrwacher personal story.
The story of Etruschi is the history of the land, which we know, but we do not know how.
Those stories have their own story telling, which makes the atmosphere of "La Chimera", third movie, from Rohwacher "Trilogy…
From just a single fact, Asgar Farhadi zooms out to describe the whole society highlighting all itsinjustices. Impossible to not emphatize. There are surely inspirations from " Ladri di biciclette", demonstrating once again how this director is able to merge the middle east and european cinema to give universal messages.
It is not only a movie about dancing. It is a movie about being free, where you can not be free. It is a movie about acknowledging that we all live in cages, where we live, breathe, and dance. The cage can be our country, our culture, ourselves, and even our body. Houria acknowledges this through a traumatic event leading her to a crisis. But she will step up again, and she will dance.