An ambitious project, originated from producer Cristiano Bortone’s Bridging the Dragon association, has adapted Alberto Simone’s novel “Un Amore a Roma” into “The Italian Recipe”, a film co-produced by Italy and China, and developed for the Chinese market. Very aptly, the movie will open with its World Premiere Screening, the 24th edition of the Udine Far East Film Festival, following by its release in thousands of Chinese cinemas.
“The Italian Recipe” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
Two very different young Chinese citizens are struggling to understand their life path in two very far apart corners of the world. Peng (Liu Xun), in Beijing, is an emerging popstar, completely englobed in the stardom system machine, guided by his agent Pete (Wu Yingzhe) and dependent on social media analytics. He is good but not good enough to surpass some of his peers that seem to have a...
“The Italian Recipe” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
Two very different young Chinese citizens are struggling to understand their life path in two very far apart corners of the world. Peng (Liu Xun), in Beijing, is an emerging popstar, completely englobed in the stardom system machine, guided by his agent Pete (Wu Yingzhe) and dependent on social media analytics. He is good but not good enough to surpass some of his peers that seem to have a...
- 4/22/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Il Sciocco: Pif’s Mafia Tinged Broad Comedy Revels in Pedestrian Frivolity
Apparently partially based on a true story, for whatever that statement is worth, The Mafia Only Kills in Summer, the directorial debut of Italian television personality Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif, may certainly appeal to those who enjoy broadly comedic, romantically inclined narratives. Shamelessly simpleminded in scope, this mafia tinged, supposed black comedy never quite plumbs the dark depths of Italy’s underbelly as it seemingly thinks it does. In Italy, Pif is a satirical news personality, and has taken great pains to create a film without the help of Mafia protection taxes, and within the film’s credits, mentions its alliance with a movement whose mission statement publicly denounces the assistance of such illegal organizations. It’s these more obscure elements and revelations that lend Pif’s film a certain weightiness that its narrative never reaches.
Exploring a...
Apparently partially based on a true story, for whatever that statement is worth, The Mafia Only Kills in Summer, the directorial debut of Italian television personality Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif, may certainly appeal to those who enjoy broadly comedic, romantically inclined narratives. Shamelessly simpleminded in scope, this mafia tinged, supposed black comedy never quite plumbs the dark depths of Italy’s underbelly as it seemingly thinks it does. In Italy, Pif is a satirical news personality, and has taken great pains to create a film without the help of Mafia protection taxes, and within the film’s credits, mentions its alliance with a movement whose mission statement publicly denounces the assistance of such illegal organizations. It’s these more obscure elements and revelations that lend Pif’s film a certain weightiness that its narrative never reaches.
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- 3/6/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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