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The Eight Mountains (2022)

a deep human relationship

[7/10 · 30 December 2022]

This is a very special film about a lifelong friendship between Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) and Pietro (Luca Marinelli). Bruno was born and raised in the mountain, while Pietro learned to love the mountain through his father (Filippo Timi) but he is from the big city, Turin.

Felix Groeningen and are people from flatlands, but sincerely fascinated by the book and learned to love high mountain. This is a film about this friendship, often silent and distant, but very deep ubreakable. It's also a film about the few Europeans who still love places of great beauty but distant from social interaction and the comfort of technology. As at one point Bruno says he is good at one thing: to live alone on the mountain. This is a quality that is more and more rare and the directors have made a great film.

The Invisible Thread (2022)

Two thumbs up!

[10/10 · 21 July 2022]

The story is quite good and new, it's far from the usual and it's a look at how a relationship has to endure after 20 years. The war between the dads is a bit excessive, but not too much and adds to the comedy as well as the drama, the rest of story is quite realistic.

This a totally new gay movie, it addresses to both straight and lgbt audiences. A big plus are the strong lead actors - Filippo Timi, Francesco Scianna above all, but also the newcomer Francesco Gheghi, maybe not as experienced, but surely being well supported by the director, he is a rue heartbreaker.

At the end of the day it's a beautiful movie one could watch definitely more than once.

Like the Wind (2013)

a powerful film

[10/10 · 25 February 2014]

I saw yesterday at an industry screening in Los Angeles the film Come Il Vento, (Like the wind). It's a powerful film, with a strong, sorrowful character. Armida Miserere, one name two tragedies as she ironically calls herself, was a woman that was strangled by a power system (the jail) dominated by violence and corruption. She had to be strong, sometime hard, but the film shows that she tries in anyway to keep her humanity. In fact, even if the film tells a dark story, it's not heavy or hard to watch, but rather moving and engaging. Valeria Golino, this wonderful Italian actress with an extensive American film background, gives to Armida her vitality and her sensuality and makes this controversial role genuine sympathetic. The film subject could easily be made for television, and in some moment it could fall in the genre, but the director's approach has a unique style, it's always original and digs deeply into the story and the character. I was totally blown away from such a powerful film and I think this is one of those kind of film that will stay in time. The film was released only recently in Italy after screening at the Rome film festival and still waits its international premiere, I believe it deserves the best form the festival circuits and from distributors world wide.