TAmong the important, urgent, political and humanist films of this Festival which opened its doors with a film that talks about the past but which many have declined to present, there is certainly Zielona granica (The green border) Agnieszka Holland, the first of the two films in competition on Tuesday 5.
The green border of Agnieszka Holland.
The film by the Polish director and screenwriter has been made semi-secretly for the argument disliked by the Polish government, which he tells the migration story of a Syrian refugee family, a lonely English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guardwho cross their paths on the border between Poland and Belarus.
Migrants as “human bullets” in The Green Frontier
It is the little-known story of the immigrants whom the Belarusian government has attracted with the illusion of being able to easily enter Europe through the Polish border, and who in 2022 they were instead continuously and cruelly bounced from one place to another, in the general indifference.
Aeneas by and with Pietro Castellitto, here at the second workwill tell a Rome populated by problematic families, unscrupulous young entrepreneurs, drug traffickers, clubbers colluded with the mafia where the protagonist moves chasing the myth that bears in his name, to feel alive in a dead and decadent era.
In the Venice Classics section it is the turn of cult film The Exorcist by William Friedkin whose last film we saw a few days ago, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martialmade before death.
Out of Competition we are already moved at the thought of seeing the documentary Ryuichi Sakamoto /Opus by Neo Sora. In the years leading up to his death on March 28, 2023, legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto was no longer able to perform live. Nevertheless, in 2022, he has gathered all his energies to make one last performance in the form of a concert film.
Carefully curated by Sakamoto himself, i 20 songs he performs in the film trace his entire career, from his pop-star days with the Yellow Magic Orchestra to Bertolucci’s magnificent scores, to the meditative music of his latest album, 12.
Michael Pitt, boxer for Jack Huston in The Day of the Fight
Actor Jack Huston (John was the grandfather, Angelica the aunt) go behind the camera with The Day of the Fight, with Michael C. Pitt, Nicolette Robinson, Ron Perlman, Joe Pesci, John Magaro, in Extra Horizons. A once-famous boxer embarks on a redemptive journey through his past and present, on the day of his first fight after being released from prison.
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