Produced by K+, Alberto Rizzi’s debut feature is set against the 2012 earthquake in Emilia and stars Alessandro Roja and Alessandra Mastronardi. Shooting has now wrapped on Si muore solo da vivi, the first full-length film by Alberto Rizzi, already a playwright, theatre director and author of short films. Filmed in Gualtieri (in the Reggio Emilia region of Italy) and written by the director in league with Marco Pettenello, the movie promises to be a romantic comedy full of colour and emotion, unfolding during the 2012 earthquake which rocked the region of Emilia and starring Alessandro Roja (recently seen at the Italian box office in Ma cosa ci dice il cervello and on the small screen in La compagnia del cigno) and Alessandra Mastronardi (whose latest works include L’agenzia dei bugiardi and the TV series Medici: Masters...
Zhao Tao is one of the most recognizable faces in Chinese art cinema thanks to her longtime collaboration with acclaimed director Jia Zhangke, whom she married in 2012. From 2000’s “Platform” to last year’s “Ash Is Purest White,” her work has plumbed the moral depths of modern China and brought stories of the country’s drastic change to global audiences.
Though often described as Jia’s “muse,” it’s a term that she herself is uncomfortable with. “I don’t accept it or reject it. It appeared, and I’ve heard it,” she shrugged. “It isn’t a term that I’ve come up with for myself — it’s one that the media has come up with for our relationship.”
Currently, Zhao is at work as a producer on a new literary documentary about the works of Chinese writers Yu Hua and Jia Pingwa that her husband began shooting in...
Though often described as Jia’s “muse,” it’s a term that she herself is uncomfortable with. “I don’t accept it or reject it. It appeared, and I’ve heard it,” she shrugged. “It isn’t a term that I’ve come up with for myself — it’s one that the media has come up with for our relationship.”
Currently, Zhao is at work as a producer on a new literary documentary about the works of Chinese writers Yu Hua and Jia Pingwa that her husband began shooting in...
- 6/19/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Three world premieres have been added to the lineup of the 74th Venice International Film Festival to complete the program.
John Woo returns to the crime thriller genre where he started his career with his latest film, Manhunt, set to premiere in Venice in an out-of-competition slot.
In the remake of a 1976 Japanese classic, a Chinese man is framed for murder in Japan and hunted by the authorities and a group of mystery killers. Woo (A Better Tomorrow, Face/Off) is a Lido favorite and was feted at the festival in 2010 with a Golden Lion for Career Achievement.
Andrea Segre (Shun Li...
John Woo returns to the crime thriller genre where he started his career with his latest film, Manhunt, set to premiere in Venice in an out-of-competition slot.
In the remake of a 1976 Japanese classic, a Chinese man is framed for murder in Japan and hunted by the authorities and a group of mystery killers. Woo (A Better Tomorrow, Face/Off) is a Lido favorite and was feted at the festival in 2010 with a Golden Lion for Career Achievement.
Andrea Segre (Shun Li...
- 8/7/2017
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's the 63rd anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation and less than two weeks until her "official summer birthday" on June 11, and one hotel has the perfect way to celebrate - if you've got a serious stash of extra cash! The Windsor Court hotel in New Orleans, whose style was inspired by that of the real Windsor Castle - where the Queen celebrated her 90th birthday in May - is offering a special "birthday dessert" honoring the Queen. Cost: $90,000. Created by Pastry Chef Shun Li, the dessert is a 24-karat gold-encrusted dark chocolate cake with a Cristal Champagne fruit sauce of raspberry and passion fruit.
- 6/2/2016
- by Michelle Tauber, @michelletauber
- PEOPLE.com
★★★★☆ Italian documentarian Andrea Segre's debut feature about the exploitation of immigrant workers in his native country, Shun Li and the Poet (2011), packs an undeniably powerful punch. A young, unmarried Chinese woman, Shun Li (Tao Zhao), is in debt to the men who arranged and paid for her travel to Rome. Li is effectively enslaved; she works for free, lives in cramped quarters and endures long hours in a textile factory while waiting for the news that will reunite her with her eight-year-old son. Things begin to look up for Li when she is sent to work in a bar on Chioggia, a small island situated in the Veneto lagoon.
Li is quickly befriended by one of the bar regulars, Bepi (Rade Serbedzija), a Yugoslavian fisherman nicknamed 'The Poet' because of his love of rhyme. Bepi has recently lost his wife and is about to retire. Yet, despite having lived...
Li is quickly befriended by one of the bar regulars, Bepi (Rade Serbedzija), a Yugoslavian fisherman nicknamed 'The Poet' because of his love of rhyme. Bepi has recently lost his wife and is about to retire. Yet, despite having lived...
- 9/24/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
There is much to savour in this poignant film about an unhappy young woman transported to Italy by her Chinese gangmasters
There is much to savour in this poignant feature by the former documentary-maker Andrea Segre: not least its tough, uncliched view of Venice. It is set in Chioggia, actually a separate town and province with its own canals and churches, but no tourists or souvenir shops, or at least none visible here. Zhao Tao, best known as the Chinese star of movies by Jia Zhangke, plays Shun Li, a reserved and unhappy young woman who has been transported to Italy by her gangmasters and must work in a bar to pay off a loanshark debt. Separated from her eight-year-old son, her heart is slowly breaking. Then she comes into contact with Bepi, sympathetically played by the Croatian-born star Rade Serbedzija: an old fisherman who comes into the...
There is much to savour in this poignant feature by the former documentary-maker Andrea Segre: not least its tough, uncliched view of Venice. It is set in Chioggia, actually a separate town and province with its own canals and churches, but no tourists or souvenir shops, or at least none visible here. Zhao Tao, best known as the Chinese star of movies by Jia Zhangke, plays Shun Li, a reserved and unhappy young woman who has been transported to Italy by her gangmasters and must work in a bar to pay off a loanshark debt. Separated from her eight-year-old son, her heart is slowly breaking. Then she comes into contact with Bepi, sympathetically played by the Croatian-born star Rade Serbedzija: an old fisherman who comes into the...
- 6/20/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In merely a coincidental set of circumstances, Andrea Segre’s Shun Li and the Poet arrives in UK cinemas on the very same day as Like Someone in Love – as two completely separate films that both focus in on the tale of an oriental woman, building the unlikeliest of platonic relationships with a man twice her age. However unlike the Abbas Kiarostami production, Shun Li and the Poet is a somewhat blander, more conventional depiction of such a story – though matches the aforementioned title in sincerity and sentiment.
Set on a small island in the Veneto lagoon, we follow Shun Li (Tao Zhao), a thirty something immigrant from China who takes a job at a local bar to raise enough funds to ensure her 8-year-old son can soon join her. Feeling isolated in this foreign land, she befriends the ageing fisherman Bepi (Rade Serbedzija), who, although having lived in Italy for 30 years,...
Set on a small island in the Veneto lagoon, we follow Shun Li (Tao Zhao), a thirty something immigrant from China who takes a job at a local bar to raise enough funds to ensure her 8-year-old son can soon join her. Feeling isolated in this foreign land, she befriends the ageing fisherman Bepi (Rade Serbedzija), who, although having lived in Italy for 30 years,...
- 6/18/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Day six of the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival is upon us!
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Tuesday, November 13th
Band Of Sisters
Band Of Sisters plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
nspired by Vatican II (a 1962-65 council of Catholic bishops) and the great social movements of the 1960s and .70s, U.S. nuns left their convents, found their mission with the poor, and grew in their spirituality . often to the chagrin of the Vatican hierarchy. Against this backdrop, .Band...
Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Tuesday, November 13th
Band Of Sisters
Band Of Sisters plays at 5:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre
nspired by Vatican II (a 1962-65 council of Catholic bishops) and the great social movements of the 1960s and .70s, U.S. nuns left their convents, found their mission with the poor, and grew in their spirituality . often to the chagrin of the Vatican hierarchy. Against this backdrop, .Band...
- 11/13/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Last night was the kick-off with just one film, Silver Linings Playbook, but today the real meat of the fest is served with films screening all day and all evening. Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 9th
Chained plays 7:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre with director Jennifer Lynch in attendance (read the Wamg interview with Ms Lynch Here
At the end of an afternoon excursion, Sarah Fiddler and her young son step into a taxi to head home. They never get there. The cab...
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 9th
Chained plays 7:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre with director Jennifer Lynch in attendance (read the Wamg interview with Ms Lynch Here
At the end of an afternoon excursion, Sarah Fiddler and her young son step into a taxi to head home. They never get there. The cab...
- 11/9/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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