Shooting is underway in Naples on the fourth and final season of HBO/Rai series “My Brilliant Friend” which sees some key casting changes in the lead roles of the two best friends, Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo, no longer played by Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace.
For the fourth season of the Elena Ferrante quadrilogy, titled “The Story of the Lost Child,” as previously announced, Alba Rohrwacher (on the left of the first look image) is playing Elena Greco, aka Lenù. Irene Maiorino (“Gomorrah”) has now been announced as Lila. And additionally, Fabrizio Gifuni (“Exterior Night”) will play Nino Sarratore, the writer who has long been the object of Lenù’s affection. Sarratore was previously played by Francesco Serpico.
The fourth season of “Brilliant Friend” is being directed by Laura Bispuri, known for the transgender-themed drama “Sworn Virgin” and for “Daughter of Mine.” Both films starred Rohrwacher and played in Berlin.
For the fourth season of the Elena Ferrante quadrilogy, titled “The Story of the Lost Child,” as previously announced, Alba Rohrwacher (on the left of the first look image) is playing Elena Greco, aka Lenù. Irene Maiorino (“Gomorrah”) has now been announced as Lila. And additionally, Fabrizio Gifuni (“Exterior Night”) will play Nino Sarratore, the writer who has long been the object of Lenù’s affection. Sarratore was previously played by Francesco Serpico.
The fourth season of “Brilliant Friend” is being directed by Laura Bispuri, known for the transgender-themed drama “Sworn Virgin” and for “Daughter of Mine.” Both films starred Rohrwacher and played in Berlin.
- 1/30/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Some creatures waste away when they’re domesticated, pining for the freedom of the outdoors. That seems to be the case not only for the immensely improbable, leadenly symbolic peacock at the center of Laura Bispuri’s “The Peacock’s Paradise,” but also for Bispuri’s flair for characterization and absorbingly grounded melodrama, which comes tamely indoors after the vibrant, windblown elementalism of “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine,” and vanishes.
In the stultifying environment of a small coastal apartment, “The Peacock’s Paradise” follows a family of unbearably self-involved secret-keepers at a reunion that precipitates an entire telenovela’s worth of soapy revelation in the space of a single afternoon. Long-term same-sex affairs are discovered; dormant passions are reawakened; new lovers are betrayed; a history of institutionalization is dredged up; financial petitions are broached; and a clinically mute character speaks, delivering one single, loaded comment that scriptwriters Bispuri and...
In the stultifying environment of a small coastal apartment, “The Peacock’s Paradise” follows a family of unbearably self-involved secret-keepers at a reunion that precipitates an entire telenovela’s worth of soapy revelation in the space of a single afternoon. Long-term same-sex affairs are discovered; dormant passions are reawakened; new lovers are betrayed; a history of institutionalization is dredged up; financial petitions are broached; and a clinically mute character speaks, delivering one single, loaded comment that scriptwriters Bispuri and...
- 10/29/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The country’s box office is still sputtering but Italian cinema is instead “in a state of grace,” as Venice chief Alberto Barbera put it recently as he announced the five features from Italy that are competing for the fest’s Golden Lion. It’s the most he’s ever selected from Italy.
And Barbera is adamant that he didn’t allocate almost one-fourth of Venice’s 21 competition slots to Cinema Italiano “to support our colors at a difficult time.”
“Some years he selects very little from Italy,” notes Barbara Salabè, who is the top Warner Bros. exec in Italy. “But this year Alberto told me: ‘the [Italian] films are good.’”
The Italian contingent on the Lido spans a wide range of cinematic styles, from “Il Buco,” an eclectic film with no dialogue or music about a group of speleologists who, in 1961, discover the world’s second-deepest cave — directed by underground helmer Michelangelo Frammartino,...
And Barbera is adamant that he didn’t allocate almost one-fourth of Venice’s 21 competition slots to Cinema Italiano “to support our colors at a difficult time.”
“Some years he selects very little from Italy,” notes Barbara Salabè, who is the top Warner Bros. exec in Italy. “But this year Alberto told me: ‘the [Italian] films are good.’”
The Italian contingent on the Lido spans a wide range of cinematic styles, from “Il Buco,” an eclectic film with no dialogue or music about a group of speleologists who, in 1961, discover the world’s second-deepest cave — directed by underground helmer Michelangelo Frammartino,...
- 9/4/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Despite Italy having been among countries hardest hit by the pandemic, film production almost never stopped. So there is a backlog of new titles ready to hit global festivals and markets starting from Cannes, as well as newer projects.
Below is a compendium of hot Cinema Italiano titles in various stages of production.
“Bones and All”
Luca Guadagnino started shooting this U.S.-set film in May, marking his first collaboration with Timothée Chalamet since “Call Me by Your Name.” Pic is adapted from the eponymous novel by Camille DeAngelis and tells the story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, a disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join forces for a road trip through Ronald Reagan’s America.
“La Chimera”
Alice Rohrwacher will soon shoot her fourth feature revolving around the black market of stolen archaeological artifacts.
Below is a compendium of hot Cinema Italiano titles in various stages of production.
“Bones and All”
Luca Guadagnino started shooting this U.S.-set film in May, marking his first collaboration with Timothée Chalamet since “Call Me by Your Name.” Pic is adapted from the eponymous novel by Camille DeAngelis and tells the story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, a disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join forces for a road trip through Ronald Reagan’s America.
“La Chimera”
Alice Rohrwacher will soon shoot her fourth feature revolving around the black market of stolen archaeological artifacts.
- 7/9/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Dominique Sanda, Alba Rohrwacher and Maya Sansa star in the director’s new film, the story of an impossible love that will throw into question the feelings of an entire family. Filming on Il paradiso del pavone, the latest film from Laura Bispuri, has just wrapped in Ostia. The film comes three years after Sworn Virgin and Daughter of Mine (selected in competition at the 2018 Berlinale). This story of an impossible love that will throw into question the feelings of an entire family will be told by actors Dominique Sanda (recently seen in Saint Laurent), Alba Rohrwacher (seen last year in The Ties and shortly in Tre piani), Maya Sansa (last year in Lasciami andare), Carlo Cerciello, Fabrizio Ferracane, Leonardo Lidi, Tihana Lazović (the Croatian actress...
Leading arthouse outfit The Match Factory is continuing its successful partnership with Laura Bispuri as it boards sales on her latest film, “The Peacock’s Paradise.” The film stars Cannes best actress winner Dominique Sanda and Venice best actress winner Alba Rohrwacher, Bispuri’s long-time collaborator.
The Match Factory previously represented the director’s “Sworn Virgin,” which played in Berlinale Competition in 2015, and “Daughter of Mine,” which was in Berlinale Competition in 2018.
“The Peacock’s Paradise” follows Nena’s family, who reunite in their house by the sea to celebrate her birthday. Everybody is there: her husband Umberto, their children Vito and Caterina, cousin Isabella, their daughter-in-law Adelina, Caterina’s ex Manfredi with his new girlfriend Joana, their granddaughter Alma, and Lucia, the maid, with her daughter Grazia. Finally, there is Paco, Alma’s peacock, who surprisingly falls in love with a little painted dove: an impossible love that will...
The Match Factory previously represented the director’s “Sworn Virgin,” which played in Berlinale Competition in 2015, and “Daughter of Mine,” which was in Berlinale Competition in 2018.
“The Peacock’s Paradise” follows Nena’s family, who reunite in their house by the sea to celebrate her birthday. Everybody is there: her husband Umberto, their children Vito and Caterina, cousin Isabella, their daughter-in-law Adelina, Caterina’s ex Manfredi with his new girlfriend Joana, their granddaughter Alma, and Lucia, the maid, with her daughter Grazia. Finally, there is Paco, Alma’s peacock, who surprisingly falls in love with a little painted dove: an impossible love that will...
- 3/3/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The full ensemble cast of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s star-studded drama “The Lost Daughter” has come into focus, as the film has just successfully wrapped production in Greece.
Ed Harris and “The Haunting of Hill House” breakout star Oliver Jackson-Cohen are among the additions to the film, Variety has learned exclusively, adapted from the acclaimed novel by Elena Ferrante. They are joined by Dagmara Dominczyk (“Succession”), Jack Farthing (“Love Wedding Repeat”) and Alba Rohrwacher (“Daughter of Mine”).
Those stars round out the previously-announced Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, Jessie Buckley and “Normal People” heartthrob Paul Mescal.
Gyllenhaal is adaptive screenwriter and director on the project, which successfully completed production amidst coronavirus shutdowns around the globe. She is producing with Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman-Keren, through their company Pie Films, and Charles Dorfman.
Endeavor Content and Dorfman, through his Samuel Marshall Productions, are the financiers, with production services from Faliro House Productions.
Ed Harris and “The Haunting of Hill House” breakout star Oliver Jackson-Cohen are among the additions to the film, Variety has learned exclusively, adapted from the acclaimed novel by Elena Ferrante. They are joined by Dagmara Dominczyk (“Succession”), Jack Farthing (“Love Wedding Repeat”) and Alba Rohrwacher (“Daughter of Mine”).
Those stars round out the previously-announced Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, Jessie Buckley and “Normal People” heartthrob Paul Mescal.
Gyllenhaal is adaptive screenwriter and director on the project, which successfully completed production amidst coronavirus shutdowns around the globe. She is producing with Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman-Keren, through their company Pie Films, and Charles Dorfman.
Endeavor Content and Dorfman, through his Samuel Marshall Productions, are the financiers, with production services from Faliro House Productions.
- 11/10/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Italian sales company True Colours has taken international sales on two spanking new Cinema Italiano titles with strong cast elements in the leadup to Rome’s Mia market: “Fortuna – The Girl and the Giants,” a dark fable starring Valeria Golino, and Rome-set psychological thriller “The Guest Room,” toplining International Emmy-nominated Guido Caprino.
True Colours chief Gaetano Maiorino said his company has booked physical screenings for five of its films set for market premieres at the Mia mart – the acronym stands for Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo, or International Audiovisual Market – that will take place as a hybrid physical and online event Oct. 14-18 in Rome.
“It looks like buyers are coming, and those who won’t be physically present will be attending online,” said Maiorino. He noted that Mia will be “the first real bona-fide market” taking place physically since Berlin in February, prior to the pandemic.
Directed by Neapolitan first-timer Nicolangelo Gelormini,...
True Colours chief Gaetano Maiorino said his company has booked physical screenings for five of its films set for market premieres at the Mia mart – the acronym stands for Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo, or International Audiovisual Market – that will take place as a hybrid physical and online event Oct. 14-18 in Rome.
“It looks like buyers are coming, and those who won’t be physically present will be attending online,” said Maiorino. He noted that Mia will be “the first real bona-fide market” taking place physically since Berlin in February, prior to the pandemic.
Directed by Neapolitan first-timer Nicolangelo Gelormini,...
- 10/8/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlinale in recent years has been a prime launching pad for Italian films directed by women, which though fewer in number to their male counterparts, make up a considerable portion of the country’s representation on the festival circuit — Alice Rohrwacher (“Happy as Lazzaro”) at Cannes, Susanna Nicchiarelli (“Nico”) at Venice, and Berlin regular Laura Bispuri (“Daughter of Mine”) are all festival faves.
Here is a compendium of new and upcoming Italian films and TV series directed by women including two (out of nine Italian titles overall) in Berlin this year.
“Ordinary Justice”
This first feature by Chiara Bellosi, who previously made several docs, looks at a day in a Turin courthouse where the lives of two women and a young girl on opposite sides of a murder case intersect. In Berlin, Generation 14Plus.
“Faith”
An observational doc by Valentina Pedicini is about a reclusive spiritual sect of kung...
Here is a compendium of new and upcoming Italian films and TV series directed by women including two (out of nine Italian titles overall) in Berlin this year.
“Ordinary Justice”
This first feature by Chiara Bellosi, who previously made several docs, looks at a day in a Turin courthouse where the lives of two women and a young girl on opposite sides of a murder case intersect. In Berlin, Generation 14Plus.
“Faith”
An observational doc by Valentina Pedicini is about a reclusive spiritual sect of kung...
- 2/22/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Vivo Film, the Italian shingle at Berlin with Abel Ferrara’s “Siberia,” has a robust slate in various stages including the next drama by Laura Bispuri, whose “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine” both launched from the Berlinale.
Bispuri later this year will shoot her third feature, which is currently titled “Di Lotta e D’Amore” (“Of Battle and Love”), a love story between two teen girls set against the backdrop of squatters’ houses and other spaces occupied by both Italians and immigrants on Rome’s outskirts. She is working with her regular writer Laura Manieri.
The Rome-based indie headed by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa — which has the distinction of being the Italian company that landed the most Berlin lineup slots in recent years — has several other new pics by emerging Italian directors in the pipeline.
They include:
“Miss Marx” — Susanna Nicchiarelli, whose “Nico, 1988,” about the late German chanteuse...
Bispuri later this year will shoot her third feature, which is currently titled “Di Lotta e D’Amore” (“Of Battle and Love”), a love story between two teen girls set against the backdrop of squatters’ houses and other spaces occupied by both Italians and immigrants on Rome’s outskirts. She is working with her regular writer Laura Manieri.
The Rome-based indie headed by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa — which has the distinction of being the Italian company that landed the most Berlin lineup slots in recent years — has several other new pics by emerging Italian directors in the pipeline.
They include:
“Miss Marx” — Susanna Nicchiarelli, whose “Nico, 1988,” about the late German chanteuse...
- 2/21/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Marco Bellocchio with Pierfrancesco Favino on The Traitor (Il Traditore): “The whole world is really tied together by the moon.”
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor (Il Traditore), co-written with Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, and Francesco La Licata, shot by Vladan Radovic is a film of breathtaking beauty with costumes by Daria Calvelli. Pierfrancesco Favino gives a career-defining performance in his portrayal of real-life Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta.
Judge Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) with Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino)
There is nothing alluring about the lifestyle of his family, when Marco Bellocchio takes it on, because the director never lets us forget the threat of violence, lurking around every corner, in every scene. A count-up warns of assassinations to come and music soothes and heightens, in a way only Bellocchio knows how to combine.
Buscetta, after his extradition from exile in Brazil in the Eighties, and the murderous rampage by rivalling factions of.
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor (Il Traditore), co-written with Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, and Francesco La Licata, shot by Vladan Radovic is a film of breathtaking beauty with costumes by Daria Calvelli. Pierfrancesco Favino gives a career-defining performance in his portrayal of real-life Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta.
Judge Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) with Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino)
There is nothing alluring about the lifestyle of his family, when Marco Bellocchio takes it on, because the director never lets us forget the threat of violence, lurking around every corner, in every scene. A count-up warns of assassinations to come and music soothes and heightens, in a way only Bellocchio knows how to combine.
Buscetta, after his extradition from exile in Brazil in the Eighties, and the murderous rampage by rivalling factions of.
- 1/17/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dee Rees is joining the Us Dramatic Competition jury Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute Sundance Film Festival has announced the 25 jurors who will award the event's 31 accolades across six sections this year.
The Us Dramatic Competition jury will feature Rodrigo García, whose Four Good Days features in this year's festival and fellow directors Dee Rees, who is bringing The Last Thing He Wanted, and Wash Westmorland, who brought Colette in 2018. They will be joined by actor/director Ethan Hawke, whose Blaze played the 2018 festival, and veteran star Isabella Rossellini, who created Sundance Channel series Green Porno.
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition jury also contains well-established names - Wadjda director Haifaa Al Mansour, Brazilian actor-turned director Wagner Moura - who made his directorial debut with Marighella in Berlin last year - and Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher
The Us Documentary jury will feature Kimberly Reed, whose Dark Money was in competition in 2018, [film]Free.
The Us Dramatic Competition jury will feature Rodrigo García, whose Four Good Days features in this year's festival and fellow directors Dee Rees, who is bringing The Last Thing He Wanted, and Wash Westmorland, who brought Colette in 2018. They will be joined by actor/director Ethan Hawke, whose Blaze played the 2018 festival, and veteran star Isabella Rossellini, who created Sundance Channel series Green Porno.
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition jury also contains well-established names - Wadjda director Haifaa Al Mansour, Brazilian actor-turned director Wagner Moura - who made his directorial debut with Marighella in Berlin last year - and Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher
The Us Documentary jury will feature Kimberly Reed, whose Dark Money was in competition in 2018, [film]Free.
- 1/14/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 344 feature films are eligible for the 2019 Academy Awards.
To be eligible for the consideration, the films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by Dec. 31, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days. Academy rules also state that a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format.
Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards will be announced on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. The ceremony takes place on Sunday, Feb. 9, airing live from Hollywood on ABC.
“Abominable”
“Ad Astra”
“Adam”
“The Addams Family”
“The Aeronauts”
“After the Wedding”
“The Aftermath”
“Aga”
“Aladdin”
“Alita: Battle Angel”
“Always Be My Maybe”
“The Amazing Johnathan”
“American Factory”
“American Woman”
“Angel Has Fallen”
“The Angry Birds Movie 2”
“Anna”
“Annabelle Comes Home...
To be eligible for the consideration, the films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by Dec. 31, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days. Academy rules also state that a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format.
Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards will be announced on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. The ceremony takes place on Sunday, Feb. 9, airing live from Hollywood on ABC.
“Abominable”
“Ad Astra”
“Adam”
“The Addams Family”
“The Aeronauts”
“After the Wedding”
“The Aftermath”
“Aga”
“Aladdin”
“Alita: Battle Angel”
“Always Be My Maybe”
“The Amazing Johnathan”
“American Factory”
“American Woman”
“Angel Has Fallen”
“The Angry Birds Movie 2”
“Anna”
“Annabelle Comes Home...
- 12/18/2019
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Ginevra Elkann with Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art premiere of Magari (If Only) Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Istituto Luce Cinecittà opening night reception for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, while Julian Schnabel circulated through the crowd and Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker and Rome Film Festival Artistic Director and Le Conversazioni founder Antonio Monda held court, Ginevra Elkann, the director of Magari (If Only) joined me for a conversation on her debut feature film, co-written with Chiara Barzini.
Riccardo Scamarcio as Carlo with Alba Rohrwacher as Benedetta in Magari (If Only)
Magari, shot by Vladan Radovic, stars Oro De Commarque, Alba Rohrwacher, Céline Sallette, Brett Gelman, and Riccardo Scamarcio with Ettore Giustiniani, Milo Roussel, and Benjamin Baroche. After viewing If Only, I thought of my Babsi, Isabella Rossellini’s Nando, and Thom Browne’s Hector with Andrew Bolton,...
At the Istituto Luce Cinecittà opening night reception for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, while Julian Schnabel circulated through the crowd and Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker and Rome Film Festival Artistic Director and Le Conversazioni founder Antonio Monda held court, Ginevra Elkann, the director of Magari (If Only) joined me for a conversation on her debut feature film, co-written with Chiara Barzini.
Riccardo Scamarcio as Carlo with Alba Rohrwacher as Benedetta in Magari (If Only)
Magari, shot by Vladan Radovic, stars Oro De Commarque, Alba Rohrwacher, Céline Sallette, Brett Gelman, and Riccardo Scamarcio with Ettore Giustiniani, Milo Roussel, and Benjamin Baroche. After viewing If Only, I thought of my Babsi, Isabella Rossellini’s Nando, and Thom Browne’s Hector with Andrew Bolton,...
- 12/17/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art with Istituto Luce Cinecittà’s Camilla Cormanni, Alice Rohrwacher, and Alba Rohrwacher Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the Istituto Luce Cinecittà opening night reception for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Julian Schnabel circulated through the crowd, Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker chatted with Magari (If Only) director Ginevra Elkann and Rome Film Festival Artistic Director and Le Conversazioni founder Antonio Monda held court.
Alba Rohrwacher on Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders: “I can say it's my life, but from her point of view.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is only one actress linked to Gianni Zanasi’s Troppa Grazia (Lucia’s Grace); Giorgio Diritti’s L’Uomo Che Verrà (The Man Who Will Come); Luca Guadagnino’s Lo Sono L’Amore (I Am Love) and Part...
At the Istituto Luce Cinecittà opening night reception for The Wonders: Alice and Alba Rohrwacher at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Julian Schnabel circulated through the crowd, Sony Pictures Classics Michael Barker chatted with Magari (If Only) director Ginevra Elkann and Rome Film Festival Artistic Director and Le Conversazioni founder Antonio Monda held court.
Alba Rohrwacher on Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders: “I can say it's my life, but from her point of view.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is only one actress linked to Gianni Zanasi’s Troppa Grazia (Lucia’s Grace); Giorgio Diritti’s L’Uomo Che Verrà (The Man Who Will Come); Luca Guadagnino’s Lo Sono L’Amore (I Am Love) and Part...
- 12/8/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Halfway through Céline Sciamma’s razor-sharp and shatteringly romantic “Portrait of a Lady Fire” — as perfect a film as any to have premiered this year — the three main characters sit around a candlelit dinner table and argue the meaning of what happened between Orpheus and Eurydice. More specifically, the point of contention hinges on what motivated Orpheus to ignore the instructions he was given and turn around to look at his love, even though he knew it would cause her to vanish from the world forever.
Sophie (Luàna Bajrami), a naïve young house servant, opts for the most literal interpretation of the ancient tale: She insists that Orpheus was an idiot. But Héloïse (a brilliant Adèle Haenel), the older, booksmart, but similarly inexperienced daughter of the absent widow who owns the place, awakens to a different understanding. To her mind, Orpheus was completely in control of his wits, he just...
Sophie (Luàna Bajrami), a naïve young house servant, opts for the most literal interpretation of the ancient tale: She insists that Orpheus was an idiot. But Héloïse (a brilliant Adèle Haenel), the older, booksmart, but similarly inexperienced daughter of the absent widow who owns the place, awakens to a different understanding. To her mind, Orpheus was completely in control of his wits, he just...
- 5/19/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The film stars Garai as Karl Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor.
Paris-based sales company Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights on Susanna Nicchiarelli’s upcoming biopic Miss Marx, starring Romola Garai as Karl Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor.
The picture, set in 19th-Century England, is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa of Rome-based independent production company Vivo film with Rai Cinema and in co-production with Valérie Bournonville and Joseph Rouschop of Tarantula and will shoot in the fall of 2019.
Donzelli and Paonessa, whose credits also include Le Quattro Volte and Daughter Of Mine, produced Nicchiarelli’s award-winning 2017 film...
Paris-based sales company Celluloid Dreams has acquired world sales rights on Susanna Nicchiarelli’s upcoming biopic Miss Marx, starring Romola Garai as Karl Marx’s youngest daughter Eleanor.
The picture, set in 19th-Century England, is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa of Rome-based independent production company Vivo film with Rai Cinema and in co-production with Valérie Bournonville and Joseph Rouschop of Tarantula and will shoot in the fall of 2019.
Donzelli and Paonessa, whose credits also include Le Quattro Volte and Daughter Of Mine, produced Nicchiarelli’s award-winning 2017 film...
- 5/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’re highlighting the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Combat Obscura (Miles Lagoze)
One of the very best documentaries we saw on the festival circuit last year was Combat Obscura, which premiered at last year’s True/False Film Festival. The film comes from Miles Lagoze, who took footage he shot as a Marine combat camera operator in Afghanistan, as well as videos taken by his comrades, and edited it all into a brisk, intense hour of war vignettes. Dan Schindel said in his review, “Combat Obscura sinks deeper into darkness as it progresses, as the utter pointlessness and futility of America’s presence in Afghanistan overwhelms the troops. While we are initially invited to empathize with the Marines,...
Combat Obscura (Miles Lagoze)
One of the very best documentaries we saw on the festival circuit last year was Combat Obscura, which premiered at last year’s True/False Film Festival. The film comes from Miles Lagoze, who took footage he shot as a Marine combat camera operator in Afghanistan, as well as videos taken by his comrades, and edited it all into a brisk, intense hour of war vignettes. Dan Schindel said in his review, “Combat Obscura sinks deeper into darkness as it progresses, as the utter pointlessness and futility of America’s presence in Afghanistan overwhelms the troops. While we are initially invited to empathize with the Marines,...
- 3/15/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Touch Me Not director Adina Pintilie: "Einstürzende Neubauten and Blixa Bargeld it's very important. It has always been. In particular the piece that you hear in the film. Melancholia speaks about the subconscious of the city." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
At the 68th Berlin Film Festival, the jury, led by Tom Tykwer, with Cécile de France, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Stephanie Zacharek, Chema Prado, and Oscar-winning producer Adele Romanski of Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and Independent Spirit winner If Beale Street Could Talk, gave the Golden Bear to Adina Pintilie's Touch Me Not, produced by Philippe Avril, and Bianca Oana.
Adina Pintilie: "I think you can find an emotional mirror of what happens within the characters." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Pintilie's début feature, shot by George Chiper, bested such films as Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner's Damsel, Christian Petzold's Transit, Benoît Jacquot's Eva, Cédric Kahn...
At the 68th Berlin Film Festival, the jury, led by Tom Tykwer, with Cécile de France, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Stephanie Zacharek, Chema Prado, and Oscar-winning producer Adele Romanski of Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and Independent Spirit winner If Beale Street Could Talk, gave the Golden Bear to Adina Pintilie's Touch Me Not, produced by Philippe Avril, and Bianca Oana.
Adina Pintilie: "I think you can find an emotional mirror of what happens within the characters." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Pintilie's début feature, shot by George Chiper, bested such films as Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, David Zellner and Nathan Zellner's Damsel, Christian Petzold's Transit, Benoît Jacquot's Eva, Cédric Kahn...
- 2/28/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Miss Mom: Bispuri Challenges Family Symmetry in Captivating Sophomore Pic
With her sensory filled coming-of-age sophomore feature, Laura Bispuri navigates the sweet and sour voyage of self-discovery via her diminutive protagonist with a film text that is full of warmth. As found in her debut transgender-themed film The Sworn Virgin, the Italian filmmaker’s concerns lie in exploring all the subtle implications of the identitarian twist. By emphasizing conciliation and acceptance over division and exception, Daughter of Mine challenges established family roles and clichéd perceptions of emotional immaturity found in pre-adolescents.
Skinny, freckle-faced pre-teen Vittoria (Sara Casu) feels alienated from her family and mates because of her eccentric physical appearance, namely her redheadedness.…...
With her sensory filled coming-of-age sophomore feature, Laura Bispuri navigates the sweet and sour voyage of self-discovery via her diminutive protagonist with a film text that is full of warmth. As found in her debut transgender-themed film The Sworn Virgin, the Italian filmmaker’s concerns lie in exploring all the subtle implications of the identitarian twist. By emphasizing conciliation and acceptance over division and exception, Daughter of Mine challenges established family roles and clichéd perceptions of emotional immaturity found in pre-adolescents.
Skinny, freckle-faced pre-teen Vittoria (Sara Casu) feels alienated from her family and mates because of her eccentric physical appearance, namely her redheadedness.…...
- 2/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Day 4 at the Berlinale provided a gem of a film in provenance of the Mediterranean Sea’s second largest island. The focal point of Laura Bispuri‘s second feature film (and second oeuvre presented at the fest) is the role of the matriarch, and how we can interpret the significance of motherhood within contemporary society. Vittoria, played by Sara Casu, is the centerpiece in a three-way relationship with a natural birthmother (Valeria Golino) and a sort of adoptive one (Alba Rohrwacher). Dealing with issues of identity, and perhaps ownership, Daughter of Mine embraces and magnifies the faults, flaws, the nurture factor found in its complex character set.…...
- 2/1/2019
- by Amir Ganjavie
- IONCINEMA.com
Strand Releasing has unveiled the trailer for “Daughter of Mine,” Laura Bispuri’s follow-up to her debut feature “Sworn Virgin.” The filmmaker’s sophomore effort finds her reteaming with Alba Rohrwacher, sister of director Alice, for another story about a young woman in a difficult situation. Watch the trailer below.
Here’s the premise: “10-year-old Vittoria’s summer will be one of two mothers to challenge, to hate, to love and to forgive. Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving good mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica spend more...
Here’s the premise: “10-year-old Vittoria’s summer will be one of two mothers to challenge, to hate, to love and to forgive. Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving good mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica spend more...
- 1/13/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
After her acclaimed debut Sworn Virgin, director Laura Bispuri returned last year with Daughter of Mine, which stars a trio of actresses: Valeria Golino, Alba Rorwacher, and impressive newcomer Sara Casu in an exploration of nature of motherhood in a variety of forms. One of the best 2019 films we’ve already seen, the U.S. trailer has now arrived via Strand Releasing ahead of a February release.
Ed Frankl said in his review, “While Daughter of Mine, unlike Bispuri’s previous work, isn’t what haughty critics would call an Lgbt text, it does consider a how a family of two mothers operates –with largely absent male figures–and comes to nuanced and unexpected conclusions.’
See the trailer and poster below.
10-year-old Vittoria’s summer will be one of two mothers to challenge, to hate, to love and to forgive. Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving good mother Tina.
Ed Frankl said in his review, “While Daughter of Mine, unlike Bispuri’s previous work, isn’t what haughty critics would call an Lgbt text, it does consider a how a family of two mothers operates –with largely absent male figures–and comes to nuanced and unexpected conclusions.’
See the trailer and poster below.
10-year-old Vittoria’s summer will be one of two mothers to challenge, to hate, to love and to forgive. Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving good mother Tina.
- 1/7/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
We don’t want to overwhelm you, but while you’re catching up with our top 50 films of 2018, more cinematic greatness awaits in 2019. Ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films (all of which have yet to premiere), we’re highlighting 50 titles we’ve enjoyed on the festival circuit this last year (and beyond) that either have confirmed 2018 release dates or are awaiting a debut date from its distributor. There’s also a handful seeking distribution that we hope will arrive in the next 12 months. U.S. distributors: take note!
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard; Jan. 25)
Another miraculous, meticulously feat of cinematic collage, The Image Book finds the French New Wave icon continuing his boundary-pushing editing techniques, both in video and sound (to see this at Alice Tully Hall during New York Film Festival was something truly special). Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review, “Split into five sections of various lengths titled Remakes,...
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard; Jan. 25)
Another miraculous, meticulously feat of cinematic collage, The Image Book finds the French New Wave icon continuing his boundary-pushing editing techniques, both in video and sound (to see this at Alice Tully Hall during New York Film Festival was something truly special). Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review, “Split into five sections of various lengths titled Remakes,...
- 1/7/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
"Were you there when I was born, Daddy?" Strand Releasing has debuted a new official Us trailer for the Italian indie drama Daughter of Mine, which first premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and stopped by a number of other festivals around the world. The coming-of-age film tells the story of a young girl torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her careless biological mother, who tries to claim her back. A story of imperfect motherhood and inextricable bonds, struggling with overwhelming feelings and dealing with wounds. Valeria Golino stars as Tina, with a cast including Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Udo Kier, and Michele Carboni. It's a very moving film about a young girl growinf up fast by deciding what's best for her, with rave reviews from a few critics. Check it out below. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for...
- 12/14/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Now that the Los Angeles Film Festival is no more, AFI Fest is more important than ever. It was the premier event of its kind even before its crosstown rival announced its permanent closure late last month, but now that it’s the only game in town, it’s unmissable. This year’s edition of the last major festival of the calendar year comes with a handful world premieres — “On the Basis of Sex,” “Mary Queen of Scots,” and “Bird Box” — and a robust slate of offerings from the likes of Berlin, Cannes, and Venice.
AFI Fest’s strength has always been the way it eschews world premieres in favor of high-quality films that premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit; Jacqueline Lyanga, whose eight-year tenure as Festival Director came to an end this summer, likened it to an “almanac of the year in cinema.” With that in mind, seek out...
AFI Fest’s strength has always been the way it eschews world premieres in favor of high-quality films that premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit; Jacqueline Lyanga, whose eight-year tenure as Festival Director came to an end this summer, likened it to an “almanac of the year in cinema.” With that in mind, seek out...
- 11/8/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Susanna Nicchiarelli's Nico, 1988 star Trine Dyrholm: "It's so important to have such complex female characters on screen." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
"This is Berlin, my darling, it's burning," says a mother to her daughter. The child is to become The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol icon known as Nico. Susanna Nicchiarelli's Nico, 1988, a highlight of the Tribeca Film Festival and the Horizons Award Best Film winner at last year's Venice International Film Festival, stars an outstanding Trine Dyrholm as Christa Päffgen (Nico's birth name). John Gordon Sinclair is her hapless manager Richard, Thomas Trabacchi music collaborator Domenico, Sandor Funtek is Christa's lost son Ari, Anamaria Marinca is violinst Sylvia, and Karina Fernandez is Laura.
Nico (Trine Dyrholm) with her son Ari (Sandor Funtek): "It's a universal film. It's a film about a mother, a woman, an artist, a war generation, a human being."
Nicchiarelli's extraordinary film, produced by...
"This is Berlin, my darling, it's burning," says a mother to her daughter. The child is to become The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol icon known as Nico. Susanna Nicchiarelli's Nico, 1988, a highlight of the Tribeca Film Festival and the Horizons Award Best Film winner at last year's Venice International Film Festival, stars an outstanding Trine Dyrholm as Christa Päffgen (Nico's birth name). John Gordon Sinclair is her hapless manager Richard, Thomas Trabacchi music collaborator Domenico, Sandor Funtek is Christa's lost son Ari, Anamaria Marinca is violinst Sylvia, and Karina Fernandez is Laura.
Nico (Trine Dyrholm) with her son Ari (Sandor Funtek): "It's a universal film. It's a film about a mother, a woman, an artist, a war generation, a human being."
Nicchiarelli's extraordinary film, produced by...
- 8/5/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Event will open with Joern Utkilen’s Norwegian debut feature Lake Over Fire.
The second edition of Oslo Pix (June 4-10) will open with Joern Utkilen’s Norwegian debut feature Lake Over Fire and close with Gustav Moller’s Danish festival hit The Guilty.
The festival has three competition programmes: Nordic fiction, Nordic documentary and international competition.
The international competition is comprised of: A Gentle Creature, Daughter of Mine, Disobedience, Faces Places, Golden Exits, Soldiers. Story From Ferentari, Summer 1993, The Tale and Aga.
The Nordic fiction competition includes: Amateurs, Jimmie, Lake Over Fire, Team Hurricane, The Real Estate, Thick Lashes of Lauri Mantyvaara,...
The second edition of Oslo Pix (June 4-10) will open with Joern Utkilen’s Norwegian debut feature Lake Over Fire and close with Gustav Moller’s Danish festival hit The Guilty.
The festival has three competition programmes: Nordic fiction, Nordic documentary and international competition.
The international competition is comprised of: A Gentle Creature, Daughter of Mine, Disobedience, Faces Places, Golden Exits, Soldiers. Story From Ferentari, Summer 1993, The Tale and Aga.
The Nordic fiction competition includes: Amateurs, Jimmie, Lake Over Fire, Team Hurricane, The Real Estate, Thick Lashes of Lauri Mantyvaara,...
- 5/29/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Vivo Film, Italian indie known for recent standout titles such as “Nico, 1988” and “Daughter of Mine,” has boarded Abel Ferrara’s long-gestating “Siberia” as its main producer.
The Rome-based shingle headed by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa also has several pics by emerging Italian directors in the pipeline including “Dafne,” a drama centered around a young woman who suffers from Down syndrome which will start shooting in Tuscany in June.
Ferrara announced “Siberia” in Cannes three years ago calling it an exploration of the language of dreams and a vehicle for Willem Dafoe. It’s about the introspective voyage of a man who lives in an isolated cabin on a snow-capped mountain. Since then “Siberia” long languished, but Vivo Film has teamed up with German producer Philipp Kreuzer’s Maze Pictures to co-produce the pic and The Match Factory has taken world sales. They are also in talks with Sundance...
The Rome-based shingle headed by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa also has several pics by emerging Italian directors in the pipeline including “Dafne,” a drama centered around a young woman who suffers from Down syndrome which will start shooting in Tuscany in June.
Ferrara announced “Siberia” in Cannes three years ago calling it an exploration of the language of dreams and a vehicle for Willem Dafoe. It’s about the introspective voyage of a man who lives in an isolated cabin on a snow-capped mountain. Since then “Siberia” long languished, but Vivo Film has teamed up with German producer Philipp Kreuzer’s Maze Pictures to co-produce the pic and The Match Factory has taken world sales. They are also in talks with Sundance...
- 5/21/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Laura Bispuri’s sophomore outing “Daughter of Mine,” which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“Daughter of Mine” world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival where it earned a warm critical reception. Strand Releasing bought the film from The Match Factory.
Written by Francesca Manieri and Bispuri, “Daughter of Mine” is set in Sardinia and follows a young adopted girl who is happy with her adoptive family, and is torn when her birth mother arrives one day. The girl must choose between two women, one who has lovingly raised her and the other, a dissolute, free-spirited woman. The film stars critically-acclaimed Italian actresses Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Golino in the lead roles.
“We’re thrilled to distribute this delicate and beautiful film. Laura really showcases the talents of two amazing actresses in this finely tuned piece,” said Strand Releasing’s Jon Gerrans,...
“Daughter of Mine” world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival where it earned a warm critical reception. Strand Releasing bought the film from The Match Factory.
Written by Francesca Manieri and Bispuri, “Daughter of Mine” is set in Sardinia and follows a young adopted girl who is happy with her adoptive family, and is torn when her birth mother arrives one day. The girl must choose between two women, one who has lovingly raised her and the other, a dissolute, free-spirited woman. The film stars critically-acclaimed Italian actresses Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Golino in the lead roles.
“We’re thrilled to distribute this delicate and beautiful film. Laura really showcases the talents of two amazing actresses in this finely tuned piece,” said Strand Releasing’s Jon Gerrans,...
- 4/27/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
As a female director in Italy, Laura Bispuri has confronted her share of challenges seeking to uproot all the prejudices and stereotypes about women: in the film industry as well as in everyday life.
Bispuri recently completed her new movie “Daughter of Mine,” which screened at the Berlin Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival.
An advisory board member of We Do It Together — a nonprofit organization that produces movies and media content by women, about women but for everyone — recently shared some of her experiences.
Also Read: 17 Highest-Grossing Movies Directed by Women, From 'Mamma Mia!' to 'Wonder Woman' (Photos)
Your films “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine” both center on female partnerships — both on screen, with the two leading protagonists, and off, with your collaboration with actress Alba Rohrwacher. How important is it, for you, to collaborate with women?
It’s a milestone of my belief. I believe it in life, and the way I decide to live it, and it’s a political belief too. I truly believe in the cohesion between women. It’s one of the things that scare people the most. We can really change everything with it. This collaboration is the thread in both my films: the women I portray are not related by blood, but they are somehow still deeply connected one to the other.
You made maternity a macroscopic concept that often, especially in Italy, is still only interpreted in a very micro way — a mother is the one who gives birth and raises her children.
One of the hardest things was to have three different points of view, but this was exactly what I wanted: not to define maternity in one standard way, but to create an emotional magma, where every woman can become mother and daughter of the other two.
There are several scenes where we understand that there is a past where Tina [Valeria Golino] has always taken care of Angelica [Alba Rohrwacher]. I like a lot a scene where Tina pays a visit to Angelica at the pier — here it’s Angelica who takes care of Tina for the first time. Even Vittoria [Sara Casu], who is a kid, at the end becomes mother to the two others herself.
Also Read: Power Lunch With Dakota Fanning: 'You're Not Telling a Women's Story, You're Telling a Human Story' (Exclusive Video)
You are in the board of We Do It Together. Why did you become part of it, and what do you think of all these current movements like Me Too and Time’s Up?
Even before the marvelous explosion of these movements, I have been working on these subjects for a long time. In Italy, every three days a woman dies. But violence is not just physical, it hides in the details.
I personally think that it’s because these injustices start inside, in the house, in the intimacy of our lives where women are expected to cook the pasta and be criticized if it’s sciapa (unsalted). There is still a very hard time to define the problem and make people see it as such.
Have you personally ever struggled, as a female director?
There is this spread idea that even if a woman director and a man director are at the same level, a man is seen as a genius and the woman is a good director. This happens all the time. I have always found myself, even in official situations, where people would rather comment on women as objects, rather than on what we do. Sometimes you feel like it’s you against the world, and it’s daily, in the small things — in the critique that men throw at you, for example.
Also Read: 9 Women Who Have Directed Movies With $100 Million Budgets (Photos)
Did this happen with “Daughter of Mine”?
In Italy, “Daughter of Mine” was criticized because women are the protagonists and men are just in the background. It’s a struggle, it’s a big struggle. But I feel like supporting this historical phase with all my might. It started from the United States, but it’s spreading all around the world, and this is what I hope: that we can come together all of us, from around the world, towards a common goal.
Both in “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine,” the location becomes a character itself matching the desolation of the spirits of these characters. Does the story suggest your locations, or does it happen the other way around?
I always spend a lot of time on the locations and it becomes part of the writing phase. For “Daughter of Mine” I instinctively decided that it should have been set in Sardinia. I found several connections between the land and the story and Sardinia started influencing the script. The feeling, in Sardinia, is very strange. It’s an island that questions its relationship with what doesn’t belong there. The fact that in Sardinia there is such a strong identity, but at the same time an equally strong need to look for it and define it, felt exactly like the characters I wanted to portray.
This is part of a blog series by We Do It Together, a nonprofit film production entity created to produce films, documentaries, TV and other forms of media uniquely dedicated to the empowerment of women.
Read original story ‘Daughter of Mine’ Director Laura Bispuri on Challenging Male Bias in the Industry (Guest Blog) At TheWrap...
Bispuri recently completed her new movie “Daughter of Mine,” which screened at the Berlin Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival.
An advisory board member of We Do It Together — a nonprofit organization that produces movies and media content by women, about women but for everyone — recently shared some of her experiences.
Also Read: 17 Highest-Grossing Movies Directed by Women, From 'Mamma Mia!' to 'Wonder Woman' (Photos)
Your films “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine” both center on female partnerships — both on screen, with the two leading protagonists, and off, with your collaboration with actress Alba Rohrwacher. How important is it, for you, to collaborate with women?
It’s a milestone of my belief. I believe it in life, and the way I decide to live it, and it’s a political belief too. I truly believe in the cohesion between women. It’s one of the things that scare people the most. We can really change everything with it. This collaboration is the thread in both my films: the women I portray are not related by blood, but they are somehow still deeply connected one to the other.
You made maternity a macroscopic concept that often, especially in Italy, is still only interpreted in a very micro way — a mother is the one who gives birth and raises her children.
One of the hardest things was to have three different points of view, but this was exactly what I wanted: not to define maternity in one standard way, but to create an emotional magma, where every woman can become mother and daughter of the other two.
There are several scenes where we understand that there is a past where Tina [Valeria Golino] has always taken care of Angelica [Alba Rohrwacher]. I like a lot a scene where Tina pays a visit to Angelica at the pier — here it’s Angelica who takes care of Tina for the first time. Even Vittoria [Sara Casu], who is a kid, at the end becomes mother to the two others herself.
Also Read: Power Lunch With Dakota Fanning: 'You're Not Telling a Women's Story, You're Telling a Human Story' (Exclusive Video)
You are in the board of We Do It Together. Why did you become part of it, and what do you think of all these current movements like Me Too and Time’s Up?
Even before the marvelous explosion of these movements, I have been working on these subjects for a long time. In Italy, every three days a woman dies. But violence is not just physical, it hides in the details.
I personally think that it’s because these injustices start inside, in the house, in the intimacy of our lives where women are expected to cook the pasta and be criticized if it’s sciapa (unsalted). There is still a very hard time to define the problem and make people see it as such.
Have you personally ever struggled, as a female director?
There is this spread idea that even if a woman director and a man director are at the same level, a man is seen as a genius and the woman is a good director. This happens all the time. I have always found myself, even in official situations, where people would rather comment on women as objects, rather than on what we do. Sometimes you feel like it’s you against the world, and it’s daily, in the small things — in the critique that men throw at you, for example.
Also Read: 9 Women Who Have Directed Movies With $100 Million Budgets (Photos)
Did this happen with “Daughter of Mine”?
In Italy, “Daughter of Mine” was criticized because women are the protagonists and men are just in the background. It’s a struggle, it’s a big struggle. But I feel like supporting this historical phase with all my might. It started from the United States, but it’s spreading all around the world, and this is what I hope: that we can come together all of us, from around the world, towards a common goal.
Both in “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine,” the location becomes a character itself matching the desolation of the spirits of these characters. Does the story suggest your locations, or does it happen the other way around?
I always spend a lot of time on the locations and it becomes part of the writing phase. For “Daughter of Mine” I instinctively decided that it should have been set in Sardinia. I found several connections between the land and the story and Sardinia started influencing the script. The feeling, in Sardinia, is very strange. It’s an island that questions its relationship with what doesn’t belong there. The fact that in Sardinia there is such a strong identity, but at the same time an equally strong need to look for it and define it, felt exactly like the characters I wanted to portray.
This is part of a blog series by We Do It Together, a nonprofit film production entity created to produce films, documentaries, TV and other forms of media uniquely dedicated to the empowerment of women.
Read original story ‘Daughter of Mine’ Director Laura Bispuri on Challenging Male Bias in the Industry (Guest Blog) At TheWrap...
- 4/26/2018
- by Giulia Cardamone
- The Wrap
Female filmmakers bagged top prizes at the Hong Kong International Film Festival on Monday, with Chinese drama “Girls Always Happy” scooping two awards and Japanese gay documentary “Of Love & Law” leading the documentary race.
“Girls Always Happy,” the directorial debut of Chines filmmaker Yang Mingming, revolves around a complex mother-daughter relationship. It won the Firebird Award in the Young Cinema Competition and the Fipresci Prize. The film premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year.
The Hong Kong festival features three different competitions: young cinema, documentary and short film. “Daughter of Mine” by Italian filmmaker Laura Bispuri, which also premiered in Berlin, was awarded Jury Prize in the Young Cinema Competition.
The Firebird Award of the documentary competition went to “Of Love & Law” by Toda Hikaru, which follows the story of gay couple Fumi and Kazu, who run a law firm together in Japan. Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “The Distant Barking of Dogs,...
“Girls Always Happy,” the directorial debut of Chines filmmaker Yang Mingming, revolves around a complex mother-daughter relationship. It won the Firebird Award in the Young Cinema Competition and the Fipresci Prize. The film premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year.
The Hong Kong festival features three different competitions: young cinema, documentary and short film. “Daughter of Mine” by Italian filmmaker Laura Bispuri, which also premiered in Berlin, was awarded Jury Prize in the Young Cinema Competition.
The Firebird Award of the documentary competition went to “Of Love & Law” by Toda Hikaru, which follows the story of gay couple Fumi and Kazu, who run a law firm together in Japan. Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “The Distant Barking of Dogs,...
- 4/2/2018
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
Film items we’ve seen at Tiff back in September in Haifaa Al Mansour’s Mary Shelley and Sebastian Lelio‘s Disobedience, to Sundance’s top prize winner in Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post to Berlin’s Daughter of Mine (read review) to highly anticipated Emma Forrest’s Untogether and Marianna Palka’s Egg, Tribeca Film Fest’s Spotlight Narrative section is a hodgepodge of film items (several world preems) that arrive in NYC with certain clout.
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- 3/7/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
After announcing the opening night film, Lisa D’Apolito’s documentary Love, Gilda, the complete lineup for the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival has been unveiling. Along with festival favorites, including Disobedience, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, and Daughter of Mine, there’s a number of anticipated world premieres: The Seagull, starring Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan, Kent Jones’ drama Diane, the documentary McQueen, Miguel Arteta’s Duck Butter, Ondi Timoner’s Mapplethorpe, the Ethan Hawke-led Stockholm, and more. The centerpiece of the festival will be Drake Doremus’ Zoe, starring Léa Seydoux, and closing night is Liz Garbus’ documentary The Fourth Estate.
“In a year that has reminded us more often of our divisions than our connections, this Festival’s program embraces film’s unique power to overcome differences – that connecting with stories not our own is the road into our deeply programmed human capacity for empathy and understanding,” said Cara Cusumano,...
“In a year that has reminded us more often of our divisions than our connections, this Festival’s program embraces film’s unique power to overcome differences – that connecting with stories not our own is the road into our deeply programmed human capacity for empathy and understanding,” said Cara Cusumano,...
- 3/7/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Bring everything back as it was before." The Match Factory has debuted an international trailer for an Italian film titled Daughter of Mine, or Figlia mia, which just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February. This drama set in summer on the island of Sardinia follows a 10-year-old girl named Vittoria who roams around freely and gets in trouble hanging out with various people, some of whom are not the best role models. The film stars Sara Casu as Vittoria, along with Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Carboni, and Udo Kier. This premiered to mostly positive reviews at Berlinale (see Indiewire or The Film Stage), one of the better discoveries in the competition line-up this year. It's an engaging, thoughtful film about a young girl trying to figure out who she is in a relentlessly rough world. It's definitely worth a watch. Here's the first international trailer for Laura Bispuri's Daughter of Mine,...
- 3/6/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Title: Figlia Mia (Daughter of Mine) Director: Laura Bispuri Cast: Valeria Golino, Alba Rohrwacher, Sara Casu, Michele Carboni, Uno Kier. ‘Daughter of Mine’ (Figlia Mia) is the second feature film by Laura Bispuri, presented at the 68th Berlin Film Festival. A story of maternity, set in Sardina’s scrubland, explores the intricacy of human relationships, but […]
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- 2/20/2018
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Author: Jon Lyus
The 21st edition of the European Shooting Stars was held at the Berlin Film Festival this past weekend, supporting new talent from across Europe. Past Shooting Stars include Tomb Raider’s Alicia Vikander, Game of Thrones’ Pilou Asbæk, Alba Rohrwacher and 007 James Bond himself, Daniel Craig.
The select group were introduced to the Berlinale Palast stage by former Italian Shooting Star Alba Rohrwacher – who recently attended the World Premiere of her new film Daughter of Mine, which is screening as part of the Official Competition.
The prestigious nomination will surely act as a springboard to bigger things for all those gathered here. The full list includes Luna Wedler (Switzerland), Matteo Simoni (Belgium), Alba August (Sweden), Réka Tenki (Hungary), Dieter Kosslick (Festival Director of Berlin Film Festival), Michaela Coel (United Kingdom), Eili Harboe (Norway), Irakli Kvirikadze (Georgia), Matilda De Angelis (Italy), Jonas Smulders (The Netherlands) and Franz Rogowski...
The 21st edition of the European Shooting Stars was held at the Berlin Film Festival this past weekend, supporting new talent from across Europe. Past Shooting Stars include Tomb Raider’s Alicia Vikander, Game of Thrones’ Pilou Asbæk, Alba Rohrwacher and 007 James Bond himself, Daniel Craig.
The select group were introduced to the Berlinale Palast stage by former Italian Shooting Star Alba Rohrwacher – who recently attended the World Premiere of her new film Daughter of Mine, which is screening as part of the Official Competition.
The prestigious nomination will surely act as a springboard to bigger things for all those gathered here. The full list includes Luna Wedler (Switzerland), Matteo Simoni (Belgium), Alba August (Sweden), Réka Tenki (Hungary), Dieter Kosslick (Festival Director of Berlin Film Festival), Michaela Coel (United Kingdom), Eili Harboe (Norway), Irakli Kvirikadze (Georgia), Matilda De Angelis (Italy), Jonas Smulders (The Netherlands) and Franz Rogowski...
- 2/20/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Laura Bispuri’s follow-up to her captivating transgender-themed debut Sworn Virgin is a wrenching, heartfelt drama with an unfussy social commentary that again seeks a new definition of womanhood. Daughter of Mine, led by a trio of female actors–Valeria Golino and Alba Rorwacher, and an equally headstrong first-timer, Sara Casu–contemplates the nature of motherhood in a variety of forms: adoption and the absence of a birth mother, the lack of father figures, and even the effect of an exclusively female family unit. Why is society obsessed with balance in nuclear families about gender–mother and father–rather than in more complex sensibilities?
In a sizzling summer on the Italian island of Sardinia, nine-year-old Vittoria (Casu) is starting to question her place in the world. Her flame-red hair marks her out, she’s bullied at school, and can’t seem to articulate herself to her mother Tina (Golino), who,...
In a sizzling summer on the Italian island of Sardinia, nine-year-old Vittoria (Casu) is starting to question her place in the world. Her flame-red hair marks her out, she’s bullied at school, and can’t seem to articulate herself to her mother Tina (Golino), who,...
- 2/19/2018
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
There’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment towards the end of Laura Bispuri’s raw and arresting “Daughter of Mine” when a distraught Sardinian mother named Tina (“Hot Shots! Part Deux” star Valeria Golino) desperately tries to flag down a sunbathing teenager. “Have you seen a little girl with red hair?” she asks in a panic, but the stranger doesn’t speak a word of Italian — she’s just a tourist in a bikini. Tina drives off, frustrated and frantic, her tires kicking up the ancient Mediterranean dirt.
It’s the first and only time in this tempestuous drama that the world outside of the island is anything more than an abstract idea, a cloud that might not come your way, a mild itch that doesn’t asked to be scratched. Bispuri presents Sardinia as a rugged and primordial place where the houses are built out of cinder blocks and the...
It’s the first and only time in this tempestuous drama that the world outside of the island is anything more than an abstract idea, a cloud that might not come your way, a mild itch that doesn’t asked to be scratched. Bispuri presents Sardinia as a rugged and primordial place where the houses are built out of cinder blocks and the...
- 2/19/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Second feature, second Berlin competition slot for Italian director Laura Bispuri, whose off-beat gender-bender tale, Sworn Virgin, brought her international acclaim in 2015. Her new film Daughter of Mine (Figlia mia) shows growing confidence with actors and staging, and even has a little more bite, but its more conventional storyline is a progressive turn-off as it devolves into the obvious, particularly in the closing scenes. On the plus side, the Match Factory release can bank on two top-drawer actresses squaring off in the opposing roles of positive (Valeria Golino) and negative (Alba Rohrwacher) maternal figures, in a film that seems aimed...
- 2/18/2018
- by Deborah Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Golino’s second feature shows the difficult relationship between two brothers.
At the eve of the Efm, Italian world sales company True Colours adds Valeria Golino’s new film Euphoria to its slate.
Produced by Ht Film and Indigo Film, who are partnering again after the success of Sergio Castellitto’s Fortunata, together with Rai Cinema (Fire At Sea, Daughter Of Mine), Euphoria will be distributed in Italy by 01 in 2018.
The film is currently in post-production after finishing its 8 weeks of shooting in December.
Euphoria’s cast includes Riccardo Scamarcio (Them, John Wick 2) and Valerio Mastandrea (Perfect Strangers, The Place) as the two brothers, as well as Un Certain Regard Best Actress Jasmine Trinca (Fortunata, Honey) in a supporting role.
The film tells the story of the difficult relationship between two brothers with opposite characters. It is written by Valeria Golino, Francesca Marciano (Me And You, [link...
At the eve of the Efm, Italian world sales company True Colours adds Valeria Golino’s new film Euphoria to its slate.
Produced by Ht Film and Indigo Film, who are partnering again after the success of Sergio Castellitto’s Fortunata, together with Rai Cinema (Fire At Sea, Daughter Of Mine), Euphoria will be distributed in Italy by 01 in 2018.
The film is currently in post-production after finishing its 8 weeks of shooting in December.
Euphoria’s cast includes Riccardo Scamarcio (Them, John Wick 2) and Valerio Mastandrea (Perfect Strangers, The Place) as the two brothers, as well as Un Certain Regard Best Actress Jasmine Trinca (Fortunata, Honey) in a supporting role.
The film tells the story of the difficult relationship between two brothers with opposite characters. It is written by Valeria Golino, Francesca Marciano (Me And You, [link...
- 2/16/2018
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
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