Film reviews in English– category –

We’re presented with a familiar set-up: aliens have invaded Earth leading to destruction, division and plenty of dust. But unlike the majority of similar films that have come before, we’re then presented with an idea of what comes after....

Realizzato a partire da immagini d'archivio e da testimonianze, Santiago, Italia racconta i mesi che seguirono il golpe del dittatore che mise fine al sogno democratico di Salvador Allende. Il film mette l'accento sul ruolo enc...

Birds of Passage (titolo originale). Alla fine degli anni Sessanta in Colombia nella regione settentrionale abitata dagli indiani Wayuu, che ancora vivono di pastorizia e coltivazione della terra, l’ambizioso Rapayet sposa la giovan...

For his first French film in nearly a decade (he'd spent the war years in Hollywood), filmmaker Julien Duvivier chose to adapt Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire, a novel by Georges Simenon. Panique, as Duvivier's version was titled, is a ...

Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece of a radical government, he attempted to re-negotiate his country's relationship with the EU, provok...

Even if the story is well-known - the good-hearted loser revenging the cruelty of a merciless society - J. Phoenix performance gives the character a decaying romantic touch that makes the movie: Reduced to a skeletal state ... ...

Loro 1, Loro 2, regia Paolo Sorrentino, 2018 “What did you expect: to be the richest man in the country, become prime minister and be madly loved by everyone too?” “Yes, that’s exactly what I expected.” I approached this two instalment m...

If you like classic Westerns, love and hate John Wayne in The Searchers, consider The last of the Mohicans a milestone of mythic American literature, don't miss Hostiles. It is a quintessential Western movie, full of violence and hate, o...

Emilia Romagna Teatro has produced this stage adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four). The play is directed by Matthew Lenton, Artistic Director of Vanishing Point, a multi-award-winning the...

Il cinema sotto le stelle: SACCO E VANZETTI - GILDA - LA RICOTTA Location and programme: the best open-air cinema in Italy - for free The best classical movie screening in Italy from the Cineteca di Bologna's restored films SACCO E VANZE...