Cnews from the most transphobic country in Europe, Poland. After the punch in the stomach of The green border by Agnieszka Holland, here, in competition, Friday 8, Kobieta Z… by Małgorzata Szumowska e Michał Englert which tells, over a period of 45 years, the largely authentic story of Adam, who tries to be a good husband and father in a small town in Poland.
But Adam feels increasingly uncomfortable in his own body, his true identity is another. Story of a transsexual who decides to embrace his nature very late, after a life spent fighting against the stupidity of the bureaucracy and the hostility of most of the people around her.
With Hors-Saisonin competition, Stéphane Brizé, once the work trilogy is over, he talks to us about feelings (not that they were absent in his previous films, on the contrary…) and the trauma of separation. A couple meets again after fifteen years. He, the fifty-year-old Laurent (Guillaume Canet), is a successful actor but in crisis after turning down a role in the theater. She, the forty-year-old Hélène, is a pianist (Alba Rorhwacher) who lives in a small town by the sea, without ever having managed to forget Laurent and start over with her life.
Third film in competition of the day, Memory Of Michel Franco, And another couple story (Jessica Chastain and Peter Saarsgard) this time still in love, but whose relationship is not without obstacles.
Orizzonti’s proposal on Friday can only be The Meatseller, animated short by Margherita Giusti, the true story of Selinna Ayamikoko, a young Nigerian who dreams of becoming a butcher like her mother. To be able to realize this dream, you will take action a journey of atrocity and bestiality. A promising debut produced by Luca Guadagnino.
Coup!, the class struggle closes the Authors’ Days
Coup! Of Austin Stark, Joseph Schuman, with Peter Saarsgard, it is the closing film of the Giornate degli Autori. Barricaded in their seaside estate to protect themselves from the Spanish Flu of 1918, a progressive journalist and his high-society wife hire a chef, with mysterious origins. When the epidemic spreads to the island, the family and staff find themselves cut off from the world and, like castaways, fight for survival. The new chef then tries to exploit the situation, convincing his workmates to re-discuss assignments and tasks. Yes, it looks like a Michel Franco film…
Enzo Jannacci I’m coming too.
Out of Competition, we’ll see Enzo Jannacci I’m coming too by Giorgio Verdelli. An eclectic and surprising talent, Enzo Jannacci was a singer-songwriter, actor and doctor. Thanks to his extraordinary linguistic and musical inventionshe knew how to move between songwriting and cabaret, rock’n’roll and jazz, theater and cinema, interpreting the contradictions of his time and his city, Milan. A documentary that brings an intimate and poetic portrait of an artist who navigated between many different genres, because he himself was a “genre”, in which Archive footage is alternated with interviews with personalities from the contemporary Italian musical world.
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