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As The Shadow / Come
l’ombra (15)
The Night Before the Exams
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La notte prima degli esami (12A)
Night Bus / Notturno
Bus (12A)
Salvatore-This Is Life
/ Salvatore-Questa e la vita (PG)
The True Legend of Tony
Vilar /
La vera leggenda di Tony
Vilar (12) |
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As the Shadow / Come l’ombra(15)
2006, 87 mins
Dir Marina Spada
The second feature from director Marina
Spada is a simple storytold with with great
confidence and sophistication. Anita Kravosstarts
as Claudia, a lonely young Italian who works
in a travelagency. She is studying Russian
and strikes up a friendshipwith her teacher
Boris (Paolo Pierobon), a Ukranian professorof
languages. Boris asks if she would allow
his cousin Olga(Karolina Dafne Porcari)
to stay for a few days holiday. Sheagrees
but when Olga turns out to be a willowy
blonde beautyshe wonders if Olga is really
Boris's cousin and whether he istaking advantage
of her good nature.Capturing the shifting
balance of power between these threeindividuals.
Spada deploys a distinctive visual style
and acuteunderstanding of human behaviour
to create an utterlycompelling drama that
casts a fascinating light on therelationship
between East and West.
Director
Marina Spada will be present at the
following screenings:
Glasgow 23 Nov 6.30pm
| Edinburgh 24 Nov
6.00pm
London Renoir 26
Nov 6.30pm |
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London Riverside 18 Nov 7.00pm
Glasgow 23 Nov 6.30pm + short
Edinburgh 24Nov 6.00pm
London Renoir 26 Nov 6.30pm |
Cast
Anita Kravos, Karolina Dafne Porcari, Paolo
Pierbon
Prod Film Kairos
Scr Daniele Maggioni
Ph Sabina Bologna, Giorgio Carella, Gabriele
Basilico
Ed Carlotta Cristiani
Mus Tommaso Leddi
Intl Sales Film Kairos, Via Anapo 46, 00199
Rome Tel 00 39 06853 4329
Fax 00 39 06854 6041 kairos@kairosfilm.it
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The Night Before
the Exams / La notte prima degli
esami (12A)
2006, 100 mins
Dir Fausto Brizzi
One of the biggest Italian box office hits
of recent times is acomedy about preparing
for the final exams that will mark theend
of high school and adolescence for a group
of young peoplein Rome in 1980.Luca and
his friends prepare for the dreaded maturità
(highschool graduation) exams. Instead of
studying they end up gettingmixed up in
a series of funny mishaps , beginning with
Luca, whosuddenly feels overwhelmed by a
moment of true courage,and decides to let
the most despicable teacher of all mankind,Professor
Martinelli, know exactly what he thinks
of him.He lashes out at the professor with
a series of insults andaccusations only
to discover ten seconds later, that ProfessorMartinelli
is the new examiner who will be sitting
in for theexams that year! |
Glasgow 16 Nov 6.30pm
Glasgow 17 Nov 3.45pm
London Riverside 22 Nov 9.20pm
London Renoir 24 Nov 6.30pm
Cardiff 26 Nov 6.30pm |
Cast Cristiana
Capotondi, Giorgio Faletti, Sarah Maestri,
Nicolas Vaporidis,
Andrea De Rosa, Eros Galbiati
Prod IIF Italian International Film, Rai
Cinema, supported by MiBAC, Aurora Film
Scr Fausto Brizzi, Marco Martani, Massimiliano
Bruno
Ph Marcello Montarsi
Ed Luciana Pandolfelli
Mus Antonello Venditti
Int sales FILMEXPORT GROUP Via Del Pianeta
Urano 60 00144 Rome
Tel 00 39 06 5220 7432 Fax 00 39 06 522
78416
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Night Bus / Notturno
bus(12A)
2007, 104 mins
Dir Davide Marengo
The dark beauty of night-time Rome provides
the atmosphericbackdrop to this spirited
film noir romp from director DavideMarengo.
An award-winning maker of documentaries,
shortfilms and music videos, Marengo brings
confidence and styleto this polished mixture
of crime caper and odd couple comedythat
enjoyed considerable commercial success
in Italy earlierthis year.Valerio Mastandrea
stars as Franz, a bus driver with a passion
forpoker and a dreary life that seems to
provide him with very littleexcitement.
Then he meets Giovanna Mezzogiorno's Leila,
a womanwho might have chosen trouble as
her middle name. A stunningbeauty, a wily
hustler and a chronic liar, Leila could
lead anyone fromthe path of righteousness.
That may explain how the duo wind upembroiled
in a series of murders and completely out
of their depth.
Special
preview screenings courtesy of Maiden Voyage
Pictures Ltd who will release the film in
the UK
Director
Davide Marengo will be present at
the following screenings:
Edinburgh 25 Nov
8.30pm | Glasgow
26 Nov 8.20pm + short
Dundee DCA 27 Nov
8.30pm |
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London Riverside 16 Nov 6.45pm
London Riverside 18 Nov 8.50pm
Edinburgh 25 Nov 8.30pm
Glasgow 26 Nov 8.20pm + short
Dundee 27 Nov 8.30pm
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Cast Giovanna
Mezzogiorno, Valerio Mastandrea, Ennio Fantastichini,
Anna Romantowska, Roberto Citron, Francesca
Pannofino
Prod Emme S.r.l., Rai Cinema
Scr Giampiero Rigosi, Fabio Bonifacci
Ph Arnaldo Catinari
Ed Patrizio Marone
Intl Sales Intramovies Via E.Manfredi, 151
00197 Roma Tel 00 39 06 8076 157
Fax 00 39 06 8076156 Mail@intramovies.com
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Salvatore
– This Is Life / Salvatore
– questa è la vita (PG)
2006 90 mins
Dir Gian Paolo Cugno
Gian Paolo Cugno's debut feature has been
charming audiencesacross Europe over the
past year. An unshamed heart-warmer with
astellar cast (Enrico Lo Verso and Giancarlo
Giannini to cite just two),it tells the
tale of a young Sicilian orphan determined
to accept theresponsibility and care for
his family.Alessandro Mallia stars as Salvatore,
the plucky youngster whodecides to leave
school and find work so he can support his
littlesister and his grandmother. Enrico
Lo Verso is Mario Brioni, adedicated teacher
who refuses to give up on the boy and visits
everyday after work to allow Salvatore to
continue with his education.The lad's greatest
struggle comes with a well-meaning social
workerwho decides that he would be better
off in an orphanage.Notable as the first
Disney feature produced in Italy, Salvatore
is setin the director's home town of Pachino
and is not for the cynical butbuilds into
the kind of emotional crowd-pleaser that
only the hardestof hearts will be able to
resist. |
Manchester 19 Nov 6.30pm
London Riverside 23 Nov 7.00pm
Glasgow 27 Nov 8.50pm
Edinburgh 29 Nov 10.30am - Schools |
Cast Enrico
Lo Verso, Galatea Ranzi, Alessandro Mallia,
Giancarlo Giannini,
Gabriele Lavia, Ernesto Mahieux, Maurizio
Nicolosi, Lucia Sardo
Prod Globe Films, The Walt Disney Company
Scr Gian Paolo Cugno, Paolo di Reda
Ph Gino Sgreva
Ed Ugo De Rossi
Mus Paolo Vivaldi
Intl Sales Buena Vista International, via
Cantalupo in Sabinia 29, 00191 Rome
Tel 00 39 06 330831 Fax 00 39 06 33083270
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The True Legend of
Tony Vilar / La vera leggenda
di Tony Vilar (12)
93 min, 2006
Dir Giuseppe Gagliardi
Using a tongue-in-cheek mockumentary style,
this half-true, halfimaginedtale is based
on the story of real-life singer Tony Vilar.Born
in Italy, he later moved to Argentina and
became one of themost popular crooners in
1960s Latin America, then mysteriouslydisappeared,
leaving a faint trail apparently leading
to New York City.Like the title says, the
story of Tony Vilar is half real, and half
legend.Historically, he is a real-life singing
star who was born in Calabria,Italy, moved
to South America and reached the pinnacle
of hissuccess in Buenos Aires in the 1960s,
before mysteriouslydisappearing after a
fan pulled off his toupee. Totally humiliated,
hevanished from the stage without a trace.
But a legend grew up aroundthe disappearance,
and director Gagliardi takes on that legend
with amusical tale about fictional Calabrian
singer Peppe Voltarelli, whohas always venerated
the myth of Tony Vilar. Setting out to learn
whathas become of the former crooner, Peppe’s
journey leads him fromArgentine record shops
and tango bars to shady Brooklyn hangouts,and
finally to a used car dealership in the
Bronx.Gagliardi, continuing to explore the
theme of the Italian Diaspora,manages to
ably confuse documentary and fiction and
enlivens itall by a broad cast of improbable
characters. A whimsical road tripfilm made
with a great deal of light-hearted imagination,
The TrueLegend of Tony Vilar is a prime
an example of the dynamism comingout of
southern Italy. |
Glasgow 18 Nov 8.45pm
Edinburgh 19 Nov 6.15pm
London Riverside 21 Nov 6.45pm
Cardiff 24 Nov 6.30pm |
Cast Peppe
Voltarelli, Christian Mantis, Dario de Luca,
Totonno Chiapetta,
Saverio La Ruina, Tony Vilar
Prod Gino Pennacchi, Sarah Pennacchi, Andrea
Kerkoc
Scr Giuseppe Gagliardi, Peppe Voltarelli
Ph Michele Paradisi
Ed Gianluca Stuard
Int sales Rai Trade, Via Umberto Novaro,
18 – 00195 Rome Tel 0039 06 374981
Fax 0039 06 3723492
info@aitrade.it www.raitrade.it
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