Open Roads 2018 Capsules : EQUILIBRIUM, RAINBOW:A PRIVATE AFFAIR, EQUILIBRIUM and MARCO FERRERI: DANGEROUS BUT NECESSARY

BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Must be seen big docu-essay about four people living in a kind of isolation. We see their homes, and listen to them talk about their lives. Beautiful and meditative film is full of heady thoughts and stunning images that will delight the eye.  While the film may not be for all people, it's deeply introspective tone may bore some people, those willing to go with it are going to be richly rewarded.

RAINBOW: A PRIVATE AFFAIR
Final film from Paolo & Vittorio Taviani has a young partisan fighter battling the fascists and himself when he finds himself in a triangle with a friend for the affections of the same girl.  Not a war film but a romantic/personal drama as our hero, Milton, has to battle the feelings kicked up when he discovers that his girl has loved another.  While perhaps not a grand as some of the Tavianis other films, it is a lovely small scale gem that is worth a look for anyone who has enjoyed their film for the last six decades.

EQUILIBRIUM
A newly transferred priest gets involved with the local battle to clean up the buried toxic waste and the the Comorra. Okay drama just sort of is. While not bad on it's own terms it kind of suffers in comparison to some of the other films playing at Open Roads

MARCO FERRERI: DANGEROUS BUT NECESSARY
Excellent portrait of the writer director and agent provocateur who for years rattled the cages of the film community. Filled with clips of the man and his films, we are treated to recollections by his friends and admirers who put his life and work into context.  In an age where Ferreri's work is slowly being eclipsed by time and lack of discussion , at least it seems here in the US, this film is a brilliant reminder of a man who shook the pillars of the film world with his larger than life  persona and need not to shy away from life as lived.  this is a must see for any film fan, especially if you don't know who Ferreri is.

Open Roads 2018 Capsules- FORTUNATA, NOME DI DONNA, STORIES THAT CANNOT BELONG TO THIS WORLD and NAPLES IN VEILS

FORTUNATA (2017)
Jasmine Trinca heads as a great cast as a single mother looking to open a salon of her own but finding life throwing obstacles in front of her at every turn.  While the plot isn't anything we haven't seen before the cast does stunning work and a prime example of why there should be ensemble awards for the entire cast of a film. Thanks to the cast this is a solid and compelling film and recommended.

NOME DI DONNA (2018)
A woman takes a job in a nursing home and is sexually harassed. She refuses to let it go and has her harasser criminally charged. Good look at sexual harassment doesn't break any new ground but is a compelling look a subject that is in the forefront of the headlines.

STORIES OF LOVE THAT CANNOT BELONG TO THIS WORLD (2017)
Romantic comedy drama about a woman who can remember everything in the wake of a break up with her boyfriend. He wants to go off and forget and she can't. As a result she is forced to ponder their relationship. Good little romantic trifle is an extremely entertaining look at life and love and why we can or cannot move on. Recommended.

NAPLES IN VEILS (2017)
A medical examiner is thrown into a tizzy when the younger man she spent a passion filled night end up on her table. This sets her off on a metaphysical quest to find out what happened. Form over substance thriller is a compelling little mystery  whose supernatural and metaphysical overtones help to keep us interested. While a little too brooding and a tad too long this is an otherwise solid little film made something special by it's assistance to stand out side the box of conventional thrillers

Boys Cry (2018) Open Roads 2018

Taut crime drama has two friends  being involved in a hit a hit and run. When they turn to one of their fathers for help they are sent don the road to hell as become low level soldier for the local organized crime family.

Expertly shot with a sterling cast BOYS CRY will keep you on the edge of your seat. You know this is all going to go badly but you can't help but stare at the screen. What makes it doubly tense is the fact that the boys know from the outset that they are screwed. By not doing the right thing and essentially turning to the devil for help they are on the road to a place neither one of them wants to be.

For anyone who likes crime dramas this film is highly recommended. One of the best films at this year's Open Roads Festival.

Fore tickets and more information go here.

Diva! (2017) Open Roads 2018

Stunning portrait of actress Valentina Cortese has eight actresses speaking on camera as Cortese while a wealth of clips  highlighting her career, and acting as a cinematic Greek Chorus to her life play.

If you want to see a film that will make you fall in love with it's subject see DIVA! Half way into the film I wanted to run to the computer and find every film she was every film she was ever in (IMDB says it's 105).  Call me heathen, but while I know I've seen Cortese in films it wasn't until I saw this film that I connected up all her film roles an realized who she was and what she's done.

I really don't know what to say but this is one of the my favorite films at Open Roads and probably of the year.This is a film for lovers of film and of a life. It is an absolute delight and highly recommended.

For tickets and more information go here

The Place (2017) Open Roads 2018

Valerio Mastandrea gives a great performance as a nameless man who seems to have all of the answers. Day and night people come to him asking for their wildest desires and he tells them how to achieve it, but telling them there is a price. he also demands that the return to him regularly to update him with details.

Based on the series The Booth at The End, THE PLACE is a heady and expected charmer. While it clearly asks us to ponder what we would do to get what we truly wanted, the film also gives us a glimpse into the hearts and souls of the people visiting this name less man.

Despite being a kind of cinematic stage play, we never leave the man or the table though time clearly passes, this is a gripping film.  We are sucked into the lives of everyone who passes, and even the an himself. Who is this person? We don't know What is his game? We can only guess. In theory this shouldn't be as compelling as it is but the entire cast sells the whole affair. We believe everything e are seeing which says a great deal.

Highest praise has to go to Valerio Mastandrea who asks questions, says stray comments and writes in his book. He seemingly does very little but reveals everything to us in each look and gesture. By the time the end comes around we feel the weight of the world upon him.

While I highly recommend the film I will pass on one word of warning, if you want action and changes of scenery look else where. This film is all talk in one place. For those who can accept that this is going to be a glorious way to start this years Open Roads look at new Italian cinema.

THE PLACE plays Thursday May 31st at Lincoln Center. For tickets and more information go here.

The annual Open Roads Festival of New Italian Cinema opens Thursday

Open Roads is one of the great festivals in any film year. Lincoln Center’s annual survey of Italian cinema always gives me a whole bunch of cinematic delights that I would never have seen otherwise. Every year I’m always tempted to see everything because the films are always so wonderfully curated. There is almost never a bad film, only one that looks weak only when compared to the other high quality films.

This year is the same way, there is nary a bad one in the bunch, and I’ve seen pretty much everything they are running. While there is one film I’m not reviewing because I’m the wrong person to talk about it, everything else is choice and recommended. That may sound like PR BS but it’s not, I really liked everything I’ve seen.

If you need a push why not try THE PLACE, BOYS CRY or STORIES OF LOVE THAT CANNOT BELONG IN THIS WORLD-. Though see whatever interests you because there is something for everyone.

The festival starts Thursday and runs through June 6th . For more information and tickets go here.

THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER AND ISTITUTO LUCE CINECITTÀ ANNOUNCE COMPLETE LINEUP FOR THE 18TH EDITION OF OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA, May 31-June 6

Opening Night selection is Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s Sicilian Ghost Story

17-film festival features nine North American and seven New York premieres

New York, NY (May 7, 2018) – The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà announce the complete lineup for the 18th edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, May 31 – June 6.

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema is the leading screening series to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films. This year’s 18th edition again strikes a balance between emerging talents and esteemed veterans, commercial and independent fare, outrageous comedies, gripping dramas, and captivating documentaries, with in-person appearances by many of the filmmakers.

The Opening Night selection is Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s second feature, Sicilian Ghost Story, a transfixing blend of realism and mythology based on the true events of a missing young boy, which won the David di Donatello award for Best Adapted Screenplay. This year’s edition showcases 16 additional titles, including the premiere of Boys Cry, a gritty gangster genre debut by the D’Innocenzo brothers; Roberto De Paolis’s feature debut about youthful self-discovery, Pure Hearts; Sergio Castellitto’s emotionally raw Fortunata, featuring legendary Rainer Werner Fassbinder leading lady Hanna Schygulla and Jasmine Trinca, who won the Un Certain Regard Best Actress prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival; and three works by returning Open Roads filmmakers: Marco Tullio Giordana’s Nome di donna, Ferzan Ozpetek’s Naples in Veils, and Vincenzo Marra’s Equilibrium.

Open Roads will also present Rainbow: A Private Affair, the latest and final film by legendary filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Vittorio sadly passed away this April at age 88), paired with a special screening of their classic Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner, The Night of the Shooting Stars; as well as the new digital restoration of iconoclast Marco Ferrari’s The Ape Woman, screening with Anselma Dell’Olio’s new documentary about the provocateur, Marco Ferreri: Dangerous but Necessary.

Tickets for Open Roads: New Italian Cinema + the Visconti retrospective go on sale May 18, with Film Society members receiving an early access period beginning May 15. Tickets are $15; $12 for students, seniors (62+), and persons with disabilities; and $10 for Film Society members. See more and save with the 3+ film discount package or Open Roads Access Pass. Learn more at filmlinc.org. 

Open Roads: New Italian Cinema is co-presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Organized by Dennis Lim and Dan Sullivan, Film Society; and by Carla Cattani, Griselda Guerrasio and Monique Catalino, Istituto Luce Cinecittà. Special thanks to: Italian Cultural Institute New York; Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò.

FILMS & DESCRIPTIONSAll screenings take place at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street) unless otherwise noted.

Opening NightSicilian Ghost Story
Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza, Italy, 2017, 120m
Italian with English subtitles
New York Premiere Winner of the David di Donatello award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s spellbinding follow-up to their acclaimed 2013 drama Salvo is by turns fantastic and ripped-from-the-headlines. One day after school, 12-year-old Luna (Julia Jedlikowska) follows her classmate crush Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez) into a possibly enchanted forest—and, just like that, he vanishes. Was he kidnapped by the Mafia, for whom his father used to work as an assassin before he turned informant? Grassadonia and Piazza’s film, based on true events, renders Luna’s quest for the truth as a transfixing blend of realism and mythology.
Thursday, May 31, 1:00pm & 6:00pm (Q&A with Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza at the 6:00pm screening) ***Grassadonia, Piazza, and actors Vincenzo Amato and Filippo Luna are available for interview.***

The Ape Woman / La donna scimmia
Marco Ferreri, Italy/France, 1964, 100m
Italian with English subtitles
North American Premiere “One of Marco Ferreri’s earliest and most beloved films, The Ape Woman is inspired by the true story of 19th-century carnival performer Julia Pastrana. Annie Girardot gives a signature performance as “Marie the Ape Woman,” an ex-nun whose body is completely covered in black hair. She is discovered at a convent by sleazy entrepreneur Focaccia (Ugo Tognazzi), who marries her and swiftly gets her on the freak show circuit to cash in on her distinctive appearance. A freewheeling satire both hilarious and grotesque, The Ape Woman is distinguished by the irreverent wit and anarchic energy of Ferreri’s greatest work. New digital restoration!
Tuesday, June 5, 8:45pm

Beautiful Things
Giorgio Ferrero & Federico Biasin, Italy/Switzerland/USA, 2017, 94m
North American Premiere This wildly ambitious documentary follows four men who work in isolation at remote scientific and industrial sites around the world. Like monks, they carry out their daily tasks in silence and solitude, creating products soon to enter the capitalist cycle of production, consumption, and destruction. A ravishingly beautiful audiovisual experience, Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasin’s debut feature is a transfixing work about the origins of consumer society imbued with a musical sense of rhythm (Ferrero is also a composer and sound editor) and a wealth of aesthetic ideas about the way we live now.
Sunday, June 6, 6:00pm (Q&A with Giorgio Ferrero)

Boys Cry / La terra dell'abbastanza
Damiano & Fabio D'Innocenzo, Italy, 2018, 96m
Italian with English subtitles
North American Premiere The D’Innocenzo brothers reinvigorate the gangster genre with their gritty, surprising debut feature, set on the outskirts of Rome. Best friends and aspiring restaurateurs Manolo (Andrea Carpenzano) and Mirko (Matteo Olivetti) kill a pedestrian in a car accident, kicking off a series of events that enmesh them with the local crime syndicate and push their mutual allegiance to the breaking point. Smart, stylish, and muscular, this critical hit at the 2018 Berlinale announces the D’Innocenzos as formidable and film-savvy new voices in Italian cinema. 
Sunday, June 3, 3:30pm (Q&A with Damiano & Fabio D'Innocenzo)
Tuesday, June 5, 2:30pm

Crater / Il cratere
Silvia Luzi & Luca Bellino, Italy, 2017, 93m Italian with English subtitles
North American Premiere Documentarians Luzi and Bellino’s fiction debut stars Rosario and Sharon Caroccia (playing versions of themselves) as a carnival worker and his ostensibly unambitious daughter. He dreams she’ll hit it big as a pop singer, but when Sharon loses interest in pursuing this potentially lucrative profession, tensions build between the two. Luzi and Bellino summon their nonfiction filmmaking background to lend naturalism and spontaneity to this tale of helicopter-parenting that consciously recalls Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima. Crater is a moving parable about the gulf that exists between our desires and those of the people closest to us.
Saturday, June 2, 1:00pm (Q&A with Silvia Luzi & Luca Bellino)
Monday, June 4, 4:15pm

Diva!
Francesco Patierno, Italy, 2017, 75m
Italian with English subtitles
North American Premiere Valentina Cortese starred in films by such masters as Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, and François Truffaut (she was nominated for an Oscar for her turn as an over-the-hill, hard-drinking thespian in the latter’s Day for Night). In this inventive work of cinematic biography, eight actresses play Cortese at various stages of her career, amidst a kaleidoscopic wealth of film clips and archival footage. In a work that is by turns glamorous, celebratory, and soberly confessional, “Cortese” often addresses the viewer directly, yielding a direct and engaging portrait of an actress whose offscreen complexity often exceeded the roles she memorably incarnated.
Friday, June 1, 4:00pm (Q&A with Francesco Patierno)
Wednesday, June 6, 8:30pm

Equilibrium / L'equilibrio
Vincenzo Marra, Italy, 2017, 90m
Italian with English subtitles
North American Premiere The director of Vento di terra returns to Open Roads with this realist parable about faith and crime in Campania. After Roman priest Don Giuseppe (Mimmo Borrelli) begins developing an attraction to an employee of the refugee center where he works, he requests a transfer, settling just north of Naples. There, he finds himself in conflict with the Camorra when he tries to intervene in the local industrial-waste crisis, their nefarious tactics putting the priest’s spiritual resolve to the test. Working with a mix of professionals and non-actors, Marra renders a scrappy, moving drama about the antagonism between religious belief and the modern world.
Sunday, June 3, 1:00pm (Q&A with Vincenzo Marra)
Wednesday, June 6, 4:30pm

Look Up / Guarda in alto
Fulvio Risuleo, Italy/France, 2017, 90m
Italian with English subtitles
North American Premiere While taking a cigarette break on a rooftop in Rome, a young baker (Giacomo Ferrara) notices a curious fowl plummeting from the sky. He crosses from one rooftop to the next to get a closer look, and what he discovers is the beginning of a journey down an urban rabbit hole of incredible situations and bizarre characters (including one played by a delightfully off-kilter Lou Castel). Documentary filmmaker Fulvio Risuleo’s fiction debut is an odd bird indeed, an unpredictable and imaginative twist on the road movie that evokes Alice in Wonderland and recalls the early work of Michel Gondry. 
Sunday, June 3, 8:30pm

Fortunata
Sergio Castellitto, Italy, 2017, 103m
Italian with English subtitles
New York Premiere Jasmine Trinca plays the ironically named Fortunata, a young mother and hairdresser living in Rome whose ambitions are constantly thwarted by inept, needy friends and family baggage. Awaiting a divorce from her soon-to-be-ex-husband and dealing with the resultant issues her 8-year-old daughter has developed, Fortunata begins taking her daughter to a handsome child therapist (Stefano Accorsi), with whom she has immediate chemistry. Also featuring legendary German actress Hanna Schygulla, Fortunata is an emotionally raw melodrama anchored by Trinca’s powerhouse performance, which earned her the Best Actress prize in the Un Certain Regard section at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Friday, June 1, 6:15pm (Q&A with Jasmine Trinca)
Monday, June 4, 2:00pm

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous but Necessary / La lucida follia di Marco Ferreri
Anselma Dell’Olio, Italy, 2017, 77m
Italian and French with English subtitles
North American Premiere Marco Ferreri: Dangerous but Necessary is a complex, multilayered portrait that seeks to give an underappreciated iconoclast his due. Directed by journalist-critic (and former Ferreri collaborator) Anselma Dell’Olio, the film draws upon interviews with such performers as Isabelle Huppert, Roberto Benigni, Hanna Schygulla, and Ornella Muti, as well as cinematic luminaries like Philippe Sarde and Dante Ferretti, to make the case for Ferreri as a figure who belongs on the same historical wavelength as such artistic revolutionaries as Godard, Fassbinder, and Buñuel. This fast-paced documentary’s enthusiasm for its legendarily provocative subject is positively infectious. 
Tuesday, June 5, 6:30pm 
Nome di donna
Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy, 2018, 90m
Italian with English subtitles
North American Premiere A woman courageously tries to break the silence in a culture of complicity surrounding sexual harassment in this all-too-timely film from Open Roads veteran Marco Tullio Giordana. Nina (Cristiana Capotondi) is a single mother who takes a job at a home for the elderly in Lombardy, where the inappropriate verbal treatment of her new manager (Bebo Storti) turns into outright assault. Nina’s quest to seek justice brings her face to face with the cultural and institutional mechanisms that allowed for the harassment in the first place. Ultimately, Nina is one of the most multidimensional and inspiring protagonists in recent Italian cinema.
Saturday, June 2, 3:30pm (Q&A with Marco Tullio Giordana)
Tuesday, June 5, 4:30pm

Naples in Veils / Napoli velata
Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy, 2017, 113m
Italian with English subtitles
New York Premiere In this moody, baroque thriller from Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek, Giovanna Mezzogiorno stars as Adriana, a medical examiner who meets cute with younger man Andrea (Alessandro Borghi) during a party at her eccentric aunt’s garish apartment. They hit it off immediately, though their romance is curtailed when Andrea later stands her up. While inspecting a corpse at work, Adriana notices a distinctive tattoo that reminds her of Andrea’s—at least as she remembers it. So begins a gripping metaphysical murder mystery, in which Naples becomes a shadowy, mysterious labyrinth of desire and memory. 
Saturday, June 2, 8:30pm (Q&A with Ferzan Ozpetek)

The Night of the Shooting Stars / La Notte di San Lorenzo
Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 1982, 35mm, 105m
Italian with English subtitles The Taviani brothers’ crowning achievement and winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, The Night of the Shooting Stars remains one of world cinema’s great war films. The story of a group of Italians in Tuscany fleeing the Nazis, who intend to bomb their small town before it can be liberated by the Americans, this is an enthralling chronicle of everyday people refusing to sit back and wait for history to redeem them, instead seeking their own salvation. This tonally eclectic, humanistic masterwork affectingly melds comedy, tragedy, and melodrama to convey the resilience of the Italian people during the war’s darkest hours.
Monday, June 4, 8:45pm

The Place
Paolo Genovese, Italy, 2017, 105m
Italian with English subtitles
New York Premiere
An enigmatic, nameless man (Valerio Mastandrea) sits in the corner of a bar, receiving visitor after visitor. They tell him of their profoundest wishes and desires, and he assures them they can have exactly what they want . . . but there will be a price, and the extreme deeds they must perform will lead them to question who they are and to what lengths they will go. An elegant reworking of the American television series The Booth at the End, this gripping, minimalist moral thriller boasts an all-star cast that includes Alba Rohrwacher, Silvio Muccino, and Rocco Papaleo.
Thursday, May 31, 3:30pm & 9:00pm (Q&A with Paolo Genovese at the 9:00pm screening)

Pure Hearts / Cuori puri
Roberto De Paolis, Italy, 2017, 114m
Italian with English subtitles
New York Premiere An impeccably acted drama about youthful self-discovery, De Paolis’s feature debut is a fresh take on the “opposites attract” tale, set on the outskirts of Rome. Seventeen-year-old Agnese (Barbora Bobulova) plans to take a vow of chastity to appease her intensely devout mother, but then she encounters 25-year-old parking lot attendant Stefano (Simone Liberati) while shoplifting a cell phone. Stefano represents for Agnese an alternative way of being in the world beyond the strictures of the church, from which she feels increasingly alienated. Partly improvised and deftly filmed by DP Claudio Cofrancesco, Pure Hearts marks an auspicious debut for De Paolis. 
Friday, June 1, 8:45pm (Q&A with Roberto De Paolis)
Wednesday, June 6, 2:00pm

Rainbow: A Private Affair / Una questione privata
Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy, 2017, 85m
Italian with English subtitles
New York Premiere Few filmmakers have better embodied Italian cinema over the past 50 years than the Taviani brothers. Their latest and final film together (Vittorio died in April) is an elegant tale of young love caught in the whirlwind of war, loosely adapted from a book by Beppe Fenoglio. Set near Turin in 1944, Rainbow follows student Milton (Luca Marinelli) and his friend Giorgio (Lorenzo Richelmy), who both love the same woman (Valentina Belle). Their friendship is put to the ultimate test against a backdrop of violent struggle after the two men are swept up in the anti-fascist movement. A sensitive, atmospheric film about the connection between the personal and the global, this is an essential capstone to the Tavianis’ vital oeuvre.
Friday, June 1, 2:00pm
Monday, June 4, 6:30pm 

Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World / Amori che non sanno stare al mondo 
Francesca Comencini, Italy, 2017, 92m 
Italian with English subtitles 
New York Premiere 
Francesca Comencini adapts her own novel for this intelligent, intensely felt romantic comedy. Academics Claudia (Lucia Mascino) and Flavio (Thomas Trabacchi) have been a couple for seven years, but their physically and intellectually passionate relationship seems to have reached an impasse, and neither of them understands why. As a result, Claudia begins a process of reflection and self-exploration to come to terms with Flavio’s love in light of her own insecurities and neuroses. This funny, charming movie reveals the inner work we must do in order to move on with our lives.
Saturday, June 2, 6:00pm (Q&A with Lucia Mascino)
Wednesday, June 6, 6:30pm

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Istituto Luce Cinecittà is the state-owned company whose main shareholder is the Italian Ministry for Culture subsidizing its activities on an annual basis. Istituto Luce Cinecittà holds one of the most important European film and photographic archives in which materials are collected and digitally categorized, including its own productions and materials, derived from private collections and acquisitions by a variety of sources. Istituto Luce Cinecittà owns a film library, Cineteca, containing around 3000 titles of the most significant Italian film productions in order to promote Italian culture at major national and international institutes around the world. In collaboration with the Italian Ministry for the Foreign Affairs, restorations and new prints are added every year. 

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