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Love Means Nothing in Tennis but Everything in “Challengers”
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist sustain a three-way rally of romance in Luca Guadagnino’s almost absurdly sexy sports film.
Zendaya, Luca Guadagnino, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist on ‘Challengers’
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, who play three entangled tennis pros, and their director, Luca Guadagnino, talk about ambition, jealousy and the “erotic amusement” of their new movie.
Alice Rohrwacher Digs Up Buried Treasure
Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera has it all: a band of music-playing, charming grave robbers, two swooning romances, song breaks, a beat-up green car, and enough jokes and heartbreak to go around. The Italian filmmaker’s fourth narrative feature tells the story of Arthur (played with handsome ruefulness by Josh O’Connor), a somewhat magical ex-con with the ability to find Etruscan artifacts hidden in the Italian countryside. With a group of merry tombaroli, he goes digging — in search of wealth and art, sure, but also something deeper.
Italy’s ‘La Chimera’ unearths a fable of lost love and grave robbing
Director Alice Rohrwacher has a gift for stories on the edge of realism
‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ & ‘Io Capitano’ Lead Italy’s David Di Donatello Award Nominations
Italian actress and screenwriter Paola Cortellesi’s directorial feature debut, There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani), and Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano lead nominations at this year’s David Di Donatello Awards . There’s Still Tomorrow nabbed 19 noms, including best film while Io Capitano landed…
Paola Cortellesi’s ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Leads Italy’s Donatello Awards Nominations
Her feature debut, which out-performed ‘Barbie’ at the Italian box office, earned 19 nominations at Italy’s answer to the Oscars, beating out Matteo Garrone’s Academy Award nominee ‘Io Capitano’ with 15.
‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ & ‘Io Capitano’ Lead Italy’s David Di Donatello Award Nominations
Italian actress and screenwriter Paola Cortellesi’s directorial feature debut, There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani), and Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano lead nominations at this year’s David Di Donatello Awards.
There’s Still Tomorrow nabbed 19 noms, including best film while Io Capitano landed 15, including best director for Garrone. Trailing the leading two is Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film, La Chimera, starring Josh O’Connor. Other leading films are Rapito (11), Comandante (10), Il Sol Dell’avvenire (7), and Adagio (5).
Marco Bellocchio’s Cannes Movie ‘Kidnapped’, About The Catholic Church’s Abduction Of Jewish Boy Edgardo Mortara, Sets U.S. Release Date
Cohen Media Group‘s well-received Cannes, TIFF and NYFF 2023 drama Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara is set to be released stateside on May 24.
The latest from respected Italian filmmaker Belloccio debuted in Competition at Cannes. It reconstructs the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the Papal state and forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th-Century Italy.
La Chimera’ is marvelous — right up to its most magical ending – NPR
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‘La Chimera’ Director Alice Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini on Excavating Italian Cinema (Exclusive)
The Italian writer and director Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, La Chimera, is the story of an archeologist — known only as the Englishman in less reputable circles — with a penchant for plundering tombs and selling their buried treasures on the black market. In her filmmaking, Rohrwacher fancies herself something of an archeologist, too, albeit with less disturbing of the dead.