Sti opens today Berlinale 73 (February 16-26), the early-season film festival finally returning with no restrictions. It’s not a glamorous appointment, the sequins don’t circulate like on the red carpet at Cannes and Venice, here the seventh art is the master. And who better than Steven Spielbergthe quintessence of cinema, could celebrate this beginning of the year?
The director of ET – The extra-terrestrial in fact it will be a Berlin to present The Fabelmanshis most personal film, and to withdraw the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement. Who knows if it will bring him luck for next March 26, the day of the delivery of the Oscars. But there is not only Spielberg in Berlin. There is also a nice Italian parterre, including Blessed Porcaroliamong the emerging stars of 2023.
Berlinale 73: Anne Hathaway, Kristen Stewart and Sean Penn on Zelensky
The director of Indiana Jones it is not the only expected talent. To inaugurate the Berlinale 2023 it’s up to She Came to Me Of Rebecca Millera romantic comedy with big hits like Peter Dinklage (Game of thrones), Marisa Tomei and Anne Hathaway. There will be also Helen Mirren (1923) that in Golda plays the Israeli premier Golda Meir.
Volodymyr Zelensky will appear here as well. This time thanks to the world premiere of Super powerthe new documentary by Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman on the Russian invasion. We’ll see if the president will actively intervene in some way of Ukraine. Judging the films in competition will be the jury chaired by Kristen Stewart.
Among the titles in the race stand out The grand chariots by Philippe Garrel Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert Of Margarethe von Trotta And Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese. To be reported out of competition Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes with John Malkovich.
The Italians at the Berlinale: from Disco Boy to Mario Martone’s doc on Troisi
Disco Boy it is the only Italian title in competition in Berlin. Giacomo Abbruzzese’s film is interpreted by Franz Rogowski (do you remember the Nazi with six fingers by Freaks Out?), in the role of Alekseia Belarusian fleeing the past: arrived in Paris he enlisted in the Foreign Legion to obtain a French passport.
Simultaneously on the Niger Delta, Jomoa young revolutionary, fights against the oil companies that have devastated his village, while his sister udoka dream of escaping. The fates of the three are intertwined. The film will be presented in Berlin on February 19 in world premiere and will be released in theaters on March 9th thanks LuckyRed.
It will be presented in the Berlinale Special section Someone down there loves me by Mario Martone on the cinema of Massimo Troisi (He would have turned 70 on February 19). In the documentary, Martone traces the Neapolitan comedian’s career, especially as a director, from beginning to end, interviewing colleagues and collaborators such as Francis Small, Paolo Sorrentino, Ficarra and Picone and the director of The postman Michael Radford. The film is released in theaters on February 23.
Pierfrancesco Favino and the Disney+ series on the women of ‘Ndrangheta
It will be presented in Berlin The last night of love Of Andrea Di Stefano with Pierfrancesco Favino. In the film the actor of Nostalgia interprets Frank, a cop grappling with an endless night, will be the most complicated of his career. In 35 years he has never shot a man, but tonight she will question his whole life: his work, love for his wife Viviana and friendship with colleague Dino.
Pierfrancesco Favino. (Loris Zambelli)
The seriality to which the festival is dedicating an award for the first time could not be missing. He competes for Italy The Good Mothers which tells the true story of three women, who grew up in families of ‘Ndranghetawho decide to collaborate with justice for get out of hell.
They are women who fight for the right to survive and to build a new future for themselves and their children. In the cast Gaia Girace (The brilliant friend), Valentina Belle (Romulus II) And Micaela Ramazzotti. The series will air soon on Disney+.
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