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Review: In ‘Amanda,’ a surly loner drums up her own drama — but she’s not insufferable
What makes Amanda (Benedetta Porcaroli), an aimless and emotionally stunted 24-year-old Italian woman living on her wealthy family’s dime, worth spending time with? It isn’t that she fills her days with solo outings to the movies, or that she almost drowned in a pool as a child.
‘Amanda’ Review: Gen Z Ennui Gets the New Deadpan Heroine It Deserves
Amanda hasn’t done a lot of living in her 24 years. She’s never had a job, a boyfriend, or even a friend. She doesn’t fit in with her family — all of them pharmacists — even though she loves the clan’s longtime housekeeper and she’s got a real bond with her too-serious young niece.
‘Amanda’ Review: A Vindication of Idiosyncrasy
Across Amanda , Carolina Cavalli’s writing and cinematic style dovetail with lead actor Benedetta Porcaroli’s calibrated strangeness to express a sensibility that feels genuinely new. It’s also the rare film about mental instability (among other things) that doesn’t pathologize and reduce its characters to a diagnosis.
Abel Ferrara Talks Forthcoming Docs On Patti Smith And Ukraine War & Why He Loves Making Films In Europe – Taormina Studio
Abel Ferrara is currently working on two very different documentaries – one on legendary singer-songwriter-poet Patti Smith and another on the war in Ukraine – and the director touched down at Deadline’s studio in Taormina to reveal a bit more about each project.
Italian Superstar Pierfrancesco Favino on Smashing “Mafia Stereotypes”
A shortlist of the directors he’s worked with — Gabriele Salvatores, Giuseppe Tornatore, Marco Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio, Gabriele Muccino, Ferzan Ozpetek, Mario Martone — reads like a who’s who of Italian cinema.
‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer
A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.”
Paolo Sorrentino’s New Movie Heads Back to Naples, Plays With Local Mythology of Siren Parthenope
Roughly two years after his return to Naples for “The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino is heading back to his hometown for a movie that plays on local mythology. The still untitled film is about a woman named Partenope “who bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth,” the Oscar-winning auteur…
Taormina Film Festival Kicks Off With Super-Tenors Placido Domingo, Vittorio Grigolo; Amber Heard Makes Her First Film Fest Appearance Since Johnny Depp Trial
The newly rebooted Taormina Film Festival kicked off on Friday night in the Sicilian city’s landmark Teatro Antico amphitheatre in an unusual but magnificent style with benefit event “Pavarotti Forever”. Placido Domingo, who was part of the famed The Three Tenors trio with Pavarotti and José Carreras…
