Lto Rome Film Festival 2022 (October 13-23) changes face. «It will be a plural festival and a great kermesse in a single city – says the president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma Gian Luca Farinelli – the soul of the seventh art made up of new authors and titles will be represented popular able to excite the public larger”.
There are titles from Ukrainedocumentaries on Dario Fo And Paul Newman (signed by Ethan Hawke) and the most anticipated films of the new season: from Amsterdam by David O. Russel with Christian Bale and Margot Robbie to The hummingbird by Francesca Archibugi with Pierfracesco Favino (which will open the event), a The shadow of Caravaggio by Michele Placido. In the Lgbtq + area the appointment is the first gay rom-com Broswritten and performed by the comedian Billy Eichner. There will be series: scheduled Django, I’m Lillo And Romulus II – The war for Rome by Matteo Rovere.
Rome Film Fest 2022: the films in competition
There are 16 films in the Rome Film Fest competition, seven directed by women. Stands out Causeawaythe first film produced by Jennifer Lawrence who plays a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. “We will see one Lawrence which goes back a little to its origins ”, says the new artistic director of the Festival Paola Malanga. Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor are the protagonists of the road movie Raymond & Rayproduced by Alfonso Cuaròn, while the good Margaret Qualley is in Sanctuary she plays an escort.
There are also two Italians in the race. The cure by Francesco Patierno with Alessandro Prezioni and Francesco Di Leva, set in Naples during the lockdown, e The dead remain with their mouths open by Fabrizio Ferraro. Here we are in the Apennines in 1944.
Jennifer Lawrence in “Causeaway”. (Apple Tv)
The films for the public. One for all: Amsterdam with Margot Robbie
Amsterdam by David O. Russell with Christian Bale, Margot Robbie And Robert De Niro is the title everyone will want to see. Who knows if any of the actors will show up on the red carpet that will be set up at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The crime is about three greats who find themselves at the center of one of the most shocking secret plots in American history. Nicolas Cage is a bison hunter of the western Butcher’s Crossing by Gabe Polsky, while Ralph Fiennes is a chef in noir The Menu. At his side Anya Taylor-Joy.
The cast of “Amsterdam”. (20th Century Studios)
There are also many Italian films. We will have fun with the polite and fairytale Astolfo by Gianni Di Gregorio with Stefania Sandrelli and with It was time by Alessandro Aronadio. Edoardo Leo he will see it with the passing of time. Too much. We will finally see The shadow of Caravaggio by Michele Placido with Riccardo Scamarcio in the shoes of the cursed painter e Marco Giallini in those of a kind of Scrooge ne The Prince of Rome. Ficarra and Picone are the protagonists of The strangeness by Roberto Andò con Toni Servillo in the guise of Pirandello.
The series at the Rome Film Fest: from Django to I’m Lillo
Even the TV series, as in any self-respecting festival, they do their part. The first episodes of Django – The series by Francesca Comencini with Matthias Schoenaerts And Noomi Rapace. As if to say: the western never sets. The second season is also revealed Romulus – The war for Rome by Matteo Rovere on the foundation of Rome.
For fans of Lillo Petrolo comes the new series of Prime Video on Posaman: I’m Lillo. And here the laughter will not count.
Lillo Petrolo. (Prime Video)
It is a completely different pasta Self – Portrait As A Coffe Pot of the artist William Kentrige who converses with himself. It also shows itself Netflix with the film Let’s rob the Duce by Reato De Maria with the new couple of Italian cinema Pieto Castellitto and Matilda De Angelis.
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