Dominique Sanda, Alba Rohrwacher and Maya Sansa star in the director’s new film, the story of an impossible love that will throw into question the feelings of an entire family. Filming on Il paradiso del pavone, the latest film from Laura Bispuri, has just wrapped in Ostia. The film comes three years after Sworn Virgin and Daughter of Mine (selected in competition at the 2018 Berlinale). This story of an impossible love that will throw into question the feelings of an entire family will be told by actors Dominique Sanda (recently seen in Saint Laurent), Alba Rohrwacher (seen last year in The Ties and shortly in Tre piani), Maya Sansa (last year in Lasciami andare), Carlo Cerciello, Fabrizio Ferracane, Leonardo Lidi, Tihana Lazović (the Croatian actress...
Vivo Film, the Italian shingle at Berlin with Abel Ferrara’s “Siberia,” has a robust slate in various stages including the next drama by Laura Bispuri, whose “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine” both launched from the Berlinale.
Bispuri later this year will shoot her third feature, which is currently titled “Di Lotta e D’Amore” (“Of Battle and Love”), a love story between two teen girls set against the backdrop of squatters’ houses and other spaces occupied by both Italians and immigrants on Rome’s outskirts. She is working with her regular writer Laura Manieri.
The Rome-based indie headed by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa — which has the distinction of being the Italian company that landed the most Berlin lineup slots in recent years — has several other new pics by emerging Italian directors in the pipeline.
They include:
“Miss Marx” — Susanna Nicchiarelli, whose “Nico, 1988,” about the late German chanteuse...
Bispuri later this year will shoot her third feature, which is currently titled “Di Lotta e D’Amore” (“Of Battle and Love”), a love story between two teen girls set against the backdrop of squatters’ houses and other spaces occupied by both Italians and immigrants on Rome’s outskirts. She is working with her regular writer Laura Manieri.
The Rome-based indie headed by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa — which has the distinction of being the Italian company that landed the most Berlin lineup slots in recent years — has several other new pics by emerging Italian directors in the pipeline.
They include:
“Miss Marx” — Susanna Nicchiarelli, whose “Nico, 1988,” about the late German chanteuse...
- 2/21/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Marco Bellocchio with Pierfrancesco Favino on The Traitor (Il Traditore): “The whole world is really tied together by the moon.”
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor (Il Traditore), co-written with Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, and Francesco La Licata, shot by Vladan Radovic is a film of breathtaking beauty with costumes by Daria Calvelli. Pierfrancesco Favino gives a career-defining performance in his portrayal of real-life Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta.
Judge Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) with Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino)
There is nothing alluring about the lifestyle of his family, when Marco Bellocchio takes it on, because the director never lets us forget the threat of violence, lurking around every corner, in every scene. A count-up warns of assassinations to come and music soothes and heightens, in a way only Bellocchio knows how to combine.
Buscetta, after his extradition from exile in Brazil in the Eighties, and the murderous rampage by rivalling factions of.
Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor (Il Traditore), co-written with Valia Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi, Francesco Piccolo, and Francesco La Licata, shot by Vladan Radovic is a film of breathtaking beauty with costumes by Daria Calvelli. Pierfrancesco Favino gives a career-defining performance in his portrayal of real-life Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta.
Judge Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) with Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino)
There is nothing alluring about the lifestyle of his family, when Marco Bellocchio takes it on, because the director never lets us forget the threat of violence, lurking around every corner, in every scene. A count-up warns of assassinations to come and music soothes and heightens, in a way only Bellocchio knows how to combine.
Buscetta, after his extradition from exile in Brazil in the Eighties, and the murderous rampage by rivalling factions of.
- 1/17/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Strand Releasing has unveiled the trailer for “Daughter of Mine,” Laura Bispuri’s follow-up to her debut feature “Sworn Virgin.” The filmmaker’s sophomore effort finds her reteaming with Alba Rohrwacher, sister of director Alice, for another story about a young woman in a difficult situation. Watch the trailer below.
Here’s the premise: “10-year-old Vittoria’s summer will be one of two mothers to challenge, to hate, to love and to forgive. Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving good mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica spend more...
Here’s the premise: “10-year-old Vittoria’s summer will be one of two mothers to challenge, to hate, to love and to forgive. Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving good mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica spend more...
- 1/13/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Laura Bispuri’s sophomore outing “Daughter of Mine,” which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“Daughter of Mine” world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival where it earned a warm critical reception. Strand Releasing bought the film from The Match Factory.
Written by Francesca Manieri and Bispuri, “Daughter of Mine” is set in Sardinia and follows a young adopted girl who is happy with her adoptive family, and is torn when her birth mother arrives one day. The girl must choose between two women, one who has lovingly raised her and the other, a dissolute, free-spirited woman. The film stars critically-acclaimed Italian actresses Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Golino in the lead roles.
“We’re thrilled to distribute this delicate and beautiful film. Laura really showcases the talents of two amazing actresses in this finely tuned piece,” said Strand Releasing’s Jon Gerrans,...
“Daughter of Mine” world premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival where it earned a warm critical reception. Strand Releasing bought the film from The Match Factory.
Written by Francesca Manieri and Bispuri, “Daughter of Mine” is set in Sardinia and follows a young adopted girl who is happy with her adoptive family, and is torn when her birth mother arrives one day. The girl must choose between two women, one who has lovingly raised her and the other, a dissolute, free-spirited woman. The film stars critically-acclaimed Italian actresses Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Golino in the lead roles.
“We’re thrilled to distribute this delicate and beautiful film. Laura really showcases the talents of two amazing actresses in this finely tuned piece,” said Strand Releasing’s Jon Gerrans,...
- 4/27/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
As a female director in Italy, Laura Bispuri has confronted her share of challenges seeking to uproot all the prejudices and stereotypes about women: in the film industry as well as in everyday life.
Bispuri recently completed her new movie “Daughter of Mine,” which screened at the Berlin Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival.
An advisory board member of We Do It Together — a nonprofit organization that produces movies and media content by women, about women but for everyone — recently shared some of her experiences.
Also Read: 17 Highest-Grossing Movies Directed by Women, From 'Mamma Mia!' to 'Wonder Woman' (Photos)
Your films “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine” both center on female partnerships — both on screen, with the two leading protagonists, and off, with your collaboration with actress Alba Rohrwacher. How important is it, for you, to collaborate with women?
It’s a milestone of my belief. I believe it in life, and the way I decide to live it, and it’s a political belief too. I truly believe in the cohesion between women. It’s one of the things that scare people the most. We can really change everything with it. This collaboration is the thread in both my films: the women I portray are not related by blood, but they are somehow still deeply connected one to the other.
You made maternity a macroscopic concept that often, especially in Italy, is still only interpreted in a very micro way — a mother is the one who gives birth and raises her children.
One of the hardest things was to have three different points of view, but this was exactly what I wanted: not to define maternity in one standard way, but to create an emotional magma, where every woman can become mother and daughter of the other two.
There are several scenes where we understand that there is a past where Tina [Valeria Golino] has always taken care of Angelica [Alba Rohrwacher]. I like a lot a scene where Tina pays a visit to Angelica at the pier — here it’s Angelica who takes care of Tina for the first time. Even Vittoria [Sara Casu], who is a kid, at the end becomes mother to the two others herself.
Also Read: Power Lunch With Dakota Fanning: 'You're Not Telling a Women's Story, You're Telling a Human Story' (Exclusive Video)
You are in the board of We Do It Together. Why did you become part of it, and what do you think of all these current movements like Me Too and Time’s Up?
Even before the marvelous explosion of these movements, I have been working on these subjects for a long time. In Italy, every three days a woman dies. But violence is not just physical, it hides in the details.
I personally think that it’s because these injustices start inside, in the house, in the intimacy of our lives where women are expected to cook the pasta and be criticized if it’s sciapa (unsalted). There is still a very hard time to define the problem and make people see it as such.
Have you personally ever struggled, as a female director?
There is this spread idea that even if a woman director and a man director are at the same level, a man is seen as a genius and the woman is a good director. This happens all the time. I have always found myself, even in official situations, where people would rather comment on women as objects, rather than on what we do. Sometimes you feel like it’s you against the world, and it’s daily, in the small things — in the critique that men throw at you, for example.
Also Read: 9 Women Who Have Directed Movies With $100 Million Budgets (Photos)
Did this happen with “Daughter of Mine”?
In Italy, “Daughter of Mine” was criticized because women are the protagonists and men are just in the background. It’s a struggle, it’s a big struggle. But I feel like supporting this historical phase with all my might. It started from the United States, but it’s spreading all around the world, and this is what I hope: that we can come together all of us, from around the world, towards a common goal.
Both in “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine,” the location becomes a character itself matching the desolation of the spirits of these characters. Does the story suggest your locations, or does it happen the other way around?
I always spend a lot of time on the locations and it becomes part of the writing phase. For “Daughter of Mine” I instinctively decided that it should have been set in Sardinia. I found several connections between the land and the story and Sardinia started influencing the script. The feeling, in Sardinia, is very strange. It’s an island that questions its relationship with what doesn’t belong there. The fact that in Sardinia there is such a strong identity, but at the same time an equally strong need to look for it and define it, felt exactly like the characters I wanted to portray.
This is part of a blog series by We Do It Together, a nonprofit film production entity created to produce films, documentaries, TV and other forms of media uniquely dedicated to the empowerment of women.
Read original story ‘Daughter of Mine’ Director Laura Bispuri on Challenging Male Bias in the Industry (Guest Blog) At TheWrap...
Bispuri recently completed her new movie “Daughter of Mine,” which screened at the Berlin Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival.
An advisory board member of We Do It Together — a nonprofit organization that produces movies and media content by women, about women but for everyone — recently shared some of her experiences.
Also Read: 17 Highest-Grossing Movies Directed by Women, From 'Mamma Mia!' to 'Wonder Woman' (Photos)
Your films “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine” both center on female partnerships — both on screen, with the two leading protagonists, and off, with your collaboration with actress Alba Rohrwacher. How important is it, for you, to collaborate with women?
It’s a milestone of my belief. I believe it in life, and the way I decide to live it, and it’s a political belief too. I truly believe in the cohesion between women. It’s one of the things that scare people the most. We can really change everything with it. This collaboration is the thread in both my films: the women I portray are not related by blood, but they are somehow still deeply connected one to the other.
You made maternity a macroscopic concept that often, especially in Italy, is still only interpreted in a very micro way — a mother is the one who gives birth and raises her children.
One of the hardest things was to have three different points of view, but this was exactly what I wanted: not to define maternity in one standard way, but to create an emotional magma, where every woman can become mother and daughter of the other two.
There are several scenes where we understand that there is a past where Tina [Valeria Golino] has always taken care of Angelica [Alba Rohrwacher]. I like a lot a scene where Tina pays a visit to Angelica at the pier — here it’s Angelica who takes care of Tina for the first time. Even Vittoria [Sara Casu], who is a kid, at the end becomes mother to the two others herself.
Also Read: Power Lunch With Dakota Fanning: 'You're Not Telling a Women's Story, You're Telling a Human Story' (Exclusive Video)
You are in the board of We Do It Together. Why did you become part of it, and what do you think of all these current movements like Me Too and Time’s Up?
Even before the marvelous explosion of these movements, I have been working on these subjects for a long time. In Italy, every three days a woman dies. But violence is not just physical, it hides in the details.
I personally think that it’s because these injustices start inside, in the house, in the intimacy of our lives where women are expected to cook the pasta and be criticized if it’s sciapa (unsalted). There is still a very hard time to define the problem and make people see it as such.
Have you personally ever struggled, as a female director?
There is this spread idea that even if a woman director and a man director are at the same level, a man is seen as a genius and the woman is a good director. This happens all the time. I have always found myself, even in official situations, where people would rather comment on women as objects, rather than on what we do. Sometimes you feel like it’s you against the world, and it’s daily, in the small things — in the critique that men throw at you, for example.
Also Read: 9 Women Who Have Directed Movies With $100 Million Budgets (Photos)
Did this happen with “Daughter of Mine”?
In Italy, “Daughter of Mine” was criticized because women are the protagonists and men are just in the background. It’s a struggle, it’s a big struggle. But I feel like supporting this historical phase with all my might. It started from the United States, but it’s spreading all around the world, and this is what I hope: that we can come together all of us, from around the world, towards a common goal.
Both in “Sworn Virgin” and “Daughter of Mine,” the location becomes a character itself matching the desolation of the spirits of these characters. Does the story suggest your locations, or does it happen the other way around?
I always spend a lot of time on the locations and it becomes part of the writing phase. For “Daughter of Mine” I instinctively decided that it should have been set in Sardinia. I found several connections between the land and the story and Sardinia started influencing the script. The feeling, in Sardinia, is very strange. It’s an island that questions its relationship with what doesn’t belong there. The fact that in Sardinia there is such a strong identity, but at the same time an equally strong need to look for it and define it, felt exactly like the characters I wanted to portray.
This is part of a blog series by We Do It Together, a nonprofit film production entity created to produce films, documentaries, TV and other forms of media uniquely dedicated to the empowerment of women.
Read original story ‘Daughter of Mine’ Director Laura Bispuri on Challenging Male Bias in the Industry (Guest Blog) At TheWrap...
- 4/26/2018
- by Giulia Cardamone
- The Wrap
Laura Bispuri’s follow-up to her captivating transgender-themed debut Sworn Virgin is a wrenching, heartfelt drama with an unfussy social commentary that again seeks a new definition of womanhood. Daughter of Mine, led by a trio of female actors–Valeria Golino and Alba Rorwacher, and an equally headstrong first-timer, Sara Casu–contemplates the nature of motherhood in a variety of forms: adoption and the absence of a birth mother, the lack of father figures, and even the effect of an exclusively female family unit. Why is society obsessed with balance in nuclear families about gender–mother and father–rather than in more complex sensibilities?
In a sizzling summer on the Italian island of Sardinia, nine-year-old Vittoria (Casu) is starting to question her place in the world. Her flame-red hair marks her out, she’s bullied at school, and can’t seem to articulate herself to her mother Tina (Golino), who,...
In a sizzling summer on the Italian island of Sardinia, nine-year-old Vittoria (Casu) is starting to question her place in the world. Her flame-red hair marks her out, she’s bullied at school, and can’t seem to articulate herself to her mother Tina (Golino), who,...
- 2/19/2018
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
A pair of sections that we’ve been covering almost since its inception, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced their selections for the New Auteurs and American Independents line-ups and we’ve got a noteworthy, eyebrow-raising sampling of award-winning items from the Cannes played hellish immigration drama Mediterranea from Jonas Carpignano to Sundance (Josh Mond’s James White) to SXSW (Trey Edward Shults’ Krisha) winners. Since Park City days, our Nicholas Bell has reviewed a good chunk of these titles, but we’ll still likely have a couple of more reviews once the festival begins. Here are the selections and jury members.
New Auteurs Selections (11 Titles)
From Afar – When a middle-aged man is assaulted and robbed by a young criminal, an unlikely relationship develops. Dir Lorenzo Vigas. Scr Lorenzo Vigas. Cast Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva. Venezuela/Mexico. U.S. Premiere
Disorder – Matthias Schoenaerts plays an ex-soldier who becomes locked...
New Auteurs Selections (11 Titles)
From Afar – When a middle-aged man is assaulted and robbed by a young criminal, an unlikely relationship develops. Dir Lorenzo Vigas. Scr Lorenzo Vigas. Cast Alfredo Castro and Luis Silva. Venezuela/Mexico. U.S. Premiere
Disorder – Matthias Schoenaerts plays an ex-soldier who becomes locked...
- 10/15/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Venice Golden Lion winner From Afar, Mustang and James White are among selections in the New Auteurs and American Independents sections at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi, set to run from November 5–12.
The New Auteurs section highlights 11 first and second-time narrative directors whose films are eligible for the grand jury prize and includes From Afar (Desde Allá) and Critics Week France 4 Visionary Award winner Land And Shade (pictured).
The American Independents strand represents nine films from returning directors whom AFI Fest programmers believe have created the best of independent filmmaking this year. Entries include James White, Krisha and FIeld Niggas.
As previously announced, the opening night gala will be the world premiere of Angelina Pitt Jolie’s By The Sea on November 5, the centerpiece gala will be the world premiere of Peter Landesman’s Concussion on November 10 and the closing night gala will be the world premiere of Adam McKay’s The Big Short on November 12.
New...
The New Auteurs section highlights 11 first and second-time narrative directors whose films are eligible for the grand jury prize and includes From Afar (Desde Allá) and Critics Week France 4 Visionary Award winner Land And Shade (pictured).
The American Independents strand represents nine films from returning directors whom AFI Fest programmers believe have created the best of independent filmmaking this year. Entries include James White, Krisha and FIeld Niggas.
As previously announced, the opening night gala will be the world premiere of Angelina Pitt Jolie’s By The Sea on November 5, the centerpiece gala will be the world premiere of Peter Landesman’s Concussion on November 10 and the closing night gala will be the world premiere of Adam McKay’s The Big Short on November 12.
New...
- 10/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Earlier today Italy's National Association of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Industries (Anica) announced a shortlist of nine films that are being considered to become the country's official Oscar entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 88th Academy Awards. A selection committee made of industry professional including directors, journalist, and even composers, will meet on Monday September 28th to make their final decision.
Here are the 9 shortlisted films:
"Anna" (Per amor vostro)
Dir. Giuseppe M. Gaudino
PC: Minerva Pictures Group
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"Blood of My Blood" (Sangue del mio sangue)
Dir. Marco Bellocchio
PC: Kavac Film
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"Don't Be Bad" (Non essere cattivo)
Dir. Claudio Caligari
Isa: Kimerafilm
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"Latin Lover"
Dir. Cristina Comencini
Isa: Rai Com
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"Leopardi" (Il giovane favoloso)
Dir. Mario Martone
Isa: Rai Com
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"My Mother" (Mia Madre)
Dir. Nanni Moretti
Isa: Films Distribution
U.S. Distributor: Alchemy
"Sworn Virgin" (Vergine giurata)
Dir. Laura Bispuri
Isa: The Match Factory
U.S. Distributor: Strand Releasing
"The Wait" (L'attesa)
Dir. Piero Messina
Isa: Pathe International
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"You Can't Save Yourself Alone" (Nessuno si salva da solo)
Dir. Sergio Castellitto
Isa: Beta Cinema
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
The shortlisted films include the apparent frontrunner, "My Mother," which premiered at Cannes, and well as several titles that just premiered at the Venice Film Festival: "Blood of My Blood" by revered auteur Marco Bellocchio; "Anna," which won the Best Actress award; "The Wait," starring Juliette Binoche, and "Don'd Be Bad." The list also features older festival favorites like "Sworn Virgin," set in Albani, and biopic "Leopardi." While Moretti seems like a safe bet, this is such a strong group of titles, there is still room for an unexpected surprise.
Italy has the distinction of being the country with the most awards in the category, the country's most recent win came in 2014 with Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty." ...
Here are the 9 shortlisted films:
"Anna" (Per amor vostro)
Dir. Giuseppe M. Gaudino
PC: Minerva Pictures Group
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"Blood of My Blood" (Sangue del mio sangue)
Dir. Marco Bellocchio
PC: Kavac Film
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"Don't Be Bad" (Non essere cattivo)
Dir. Claudio Caligari
Isa: Kimerafilm
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"Latin Lover"
Dir. Cristina Comencini
Isa: Rai Com
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"Leopardi" (Il giovane favoloso)
Dir. Mario Martone
Isa: Rai Com
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"My Mother" (Mia Madre)
Dir. Nanni Moretti
Isa: Films Distribution
U.S. Distributor: Alchemy
"Sworn Virgin" (Vergine giurata)
Dir. Laura Bispuri
Isa: The Match Factory
U.S. Distributor: Strand Releasing
"The Wait" (L'attesa)
Dir. Piero Messina
Isa: Pathe International
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
"You Can't Save Yourself Alone" (Nessuno si salva da solo)
Dir. Sergio Castellitto
Isa: Beta Cinema
U.S. Distributor: None Yet
The shortlisted films include the apparent frontrunner, "My Mother," which premiered at Cannes, and well as several titles that just premiered at the Venice Film Festival: "Blood of My Blood" by revered auteur Marco Bellocchio; "Anna," which won the Best Actress award; "The Wait," starring Juliette Binoche, and "Don'd Be Bad." The list also features older festival favorites like "Sworn Virgin," set in Albani, and biopic "Leopardi." While Moretti seems like a safe bet, this is such a strong group of titles, there is still room for an unexpected surprise.
Italy has the distinction of being the country with the most awards in the category, the country's most recent win came in 2014 with Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty." ...
- 9/21/2015
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Sworn Virgin director Laura Bispuri with Alba Rohrwacher who triumphs in her complex portrayal.
In part 2 of my conversation with Laura Bispuri, the Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Prize winning director for Sworn Virgin (Vergine Giurata), and her star Alba Rohrwacher, we go looking for the character, Alba compares her roles in Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts and Sworn Virgin, the impact of Lars Eidinger in Esther Williams-inspired synchronised swimming is exposed by producer Marta Donzelli, and putting on war paint has new meaning.
Marta Donzelli on Alba Rohrwacher as Mark with Lars Eidinger: "How he frees those ropes in the water is also very metaphoric..."
In the isolated mountains of Northern Albania, women aren't allowed in the woods alone, can't shoot guns, and always choose second. There is a system in place if a woman wants to live like a man. Unlike the Little Mermaid, she does...
In part 2 of my conversation with Laura Bispuri, the Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Prize winning director for Sworn Virgin (Vergine Giurata), and her star Alba Rohrwacher, we go looking for the character, Alba compares her roles in Saverio Costanzo's Hungry Hearts and Sworn Virgin, the impact of Lars Eidinger in Esther Williams-inspired synchronised swimming is exposed by producer Marta Donzelli, and putting on war paint has new meaning.
Marta Donzelli on Alba Rohrwacher as Mark with Lars Eidinger: "How he frees those ropes in the water is also very metaphoric..."
In the isolated mountains of Northern Albania, women aren't allowed in the woods alone, can't shoot guns, and always choose second. There is a system in place if a woman wants to live like a man. Unlike the Little Mermaid, she does...
- 5/2/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sworn Virgin (Vergine giurata) director Laura Bispuri with star Alba Rohrwacher Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Laura Bispuri's Sworn Virgin (Vergine Giurata) won this year's Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Prize. Her debut feature stars Alba Rohrwacher in a complex portrayal of life as Hana and Mark with Flonja Kodheli as her sister Lila. On a brisk spring morning in New York, the director and Alba spoke with me about looking for the character, a goat as metaphor, the impact of Lars Eidinger on an Esther Williams inspired synchronised swimming scene, Elvira Dones' novel on which the film is based, traditions and the questioning of gender roles. In the isolated mountains of Northern Albania, the codes ruling the interactions between men and women are strict.
Alba Rohrwacher (Hana): "I didn’t know about these women who became men to be free."
Anne-Katrin Titze: You found a beautiful way for us to enter your film.
Laura Bispuri's Sworn Virgin (Vergine Giurata) won this year's Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Prize. Her debut feature stars Alba Rohrwacher in a complex portrayal of life as Hana and Mark with Flonja Kodheli as her sister Lila. On a brisk spring morning in New York, the director and Alba spoke with me about looking for the character, a goat as metaphor, the impact of Lars Eidinger on an Esther Williams inspired synchronised swimming scene, Elvira Dones' novel on which the film is based, traditions and the questioning of gender roles. In the isolated mountains of Northern Albania, the codes ruling the interactions between men and women are strict.
Alba Rohrwacher (Hana): "I didn’t know about these women who became men to be free."
Anne-Katrin Titze: You found a beautiful way for us to enter your film.
- 4/26/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Alba Rohrwacher (Hana) Flonja Kodheli (Lila) in Laura Bispuri's Sworn Virgin
The Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Prize winner, Sworn Virgin (Vergine Giurata), directed by Laura Bispuri, co-written with Francesca Manieri, from the novel by Elvira Dones, stars Alba Rohrwacher with Flonja Kodheli as her sister Lila, Ilire Vinca Cela as their mother, and Lars Eidinger as pool guardian.
In the isolated mountains of Northern Albania, the codes are strict ruling the interactions between men and women. Bispuri's sharply crafted first feature lays out the dictates in images that share and combine the rough beauty of the land with the oppression lying beneath. Women and donkeys carrying sacks of rubble up the flinty mountains. Men go hunting in the woods, drink a fiery alcohol called Raki, and howl collective chants when one of them dies.
Flonja Kodheli: "Lila doesn't seem so happy. At least she isn't married to someone she doesn't love.
The Tribeca Film Festival Nora Ephron Prize winner, Sworn Virgin (Vergine Giurata), directed by Laura Bispuri, co-written with Francesca Manieri, from the novel by Elvira Dones, stars Alba Rohrwacher with Flonja Kodheli as her sister Lila, Ilire Vinca Cela as their mother, and Lars Eidinger as pool guardian.
In the isolated mountains of Northern Albania, the codes are strict ruling the interactions between men and women. Bispuri's sharply crafted first feature lays out the dictates in images that share and combine the rough beauty of the land with the oppression lying beneath. Women and donkeys carrying sacks of rubble up the flinty mountains. Men go hunting in the woods, drink a fiery alcohol called Raki, and howl collective chants when one of them dies.
Flonja Kodheli: "Lila doesn't seem so happy. At least she isn't married to someone she doesn't love.
- 4/25/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Andrew Renzi‘s directorial debut about a third wheel starring Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning and Theo James, Reed Morano‘s relationship testing drama featuring Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson, Onur Tukel‘s secret unleashed on the airwaves and Gregory Kohn‘s hallucinatory tale with Eléonore Hendricks topling are part of the American independent offerings at the 14th Tribeca Film Festival. Renzi’s Franny and Morano’s Meadowland will be competing in the dozen selected in the World Narrative Competition while Tukel’s Applesauce and Kohn’s Come Down Molly are among the in the Viewpoints sidebar. Here are the selected titles below sans synopsis.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
- 3/3/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Top brass at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) presented by At&T have announced the World Narrative and Documentary Competition and Viewpoints selections.
Organisers also said that At&T’s Film For All Friday will return with free screenings on April 24. The festival is set to run in New York City from April 15-26 and the festival hub is Spring Studios.
Tuesday’s announcement covers 51 films out of a total 97 features at the upcoming 14th edition. As previously announced, Tribeca will open with the documentary Live From New York!
The line-up includes world premieres of Andrew Renzi’s Franny starring Richard Gere, Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries with James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris and Cynthia Nixon and documentaries In My Father’s House by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and In Transit from Albert Maysles and four co-directors.
Thirty of the festival’s feature film directors are women –the highest percentage in Tribeca history. Nine of...
Organisers also said that At&T’s Film For All Friday will return with free screenings on April 24. The festival is set to run in New York City from April 15-26 and the festival hub is Spring Studios.
Tuesday’s announcement covers 51 films out of a total 97 features at the upcoming 14th edition. As previously announced, Tribeca will open with the documentary Live From New York!
The line-up includes world premieres of Andrew Renzi’s Franny starring Richard Gere, Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries with James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris and Cynthia Nixon and documentaries In My Father’s House by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg and In Transit from Albert Maysles and four co-directors.
Thirty of the festival’s feature film directors are women –the highest percentage in Tribeca history. Nine of...
- 3/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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