“Suburra” begins with two haunting and indelible images: the deserted St. Peter’s Basilica, as the camera backs slowly and forebodingly away from it, and then two minutes later, a frenetic, writhing, and illicit drug-fueled orgy. It’s this juxtaposition of the public veneer of Rome and its seedy underbelly that combine and form one sprawling world of corruption.
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- 10/6/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Title: Qualcosa di nuovo (Something new) Director: Cristina Comencini Starring: Paola Cortellesi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Eduardo Valdarnini. Filmmaker and playwright Cristina Comencini explores the cougar phenomenon adapting her play ‘La scena’ (The Scene) for the big screen, with ‘Qualcosa di nuovo’ (Something new). This is a story about female friendship. The cinematic tale accounts sisterly complicity ? that alternates with competition ? when two women in their forties find themselves sharing a teenage lover. The story is extremely predictable and drenched with cliches, which are enhanced by the female characters who embody two opposing stereotypes. Lucia (Paola Cortellesi) is stiff with men, she mistrusts them, interrogates them and has a rather [ Read More ]
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- 10/14/2016
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
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