TORONTO – Si potrebbe affermare in modo convincente che il film di Michele Placido su Michelangelo Merisi di Caravaggio sia un’opera degna dell’approvazione dell’artista barocco – se fosse vivo oggi per vederlo. Naturalmente, non si saprà mai, e aspettarsi di catturare l’intero contesto della vita di un uomo attraverso un resoconto di due ore, a distanza di quattrocento anni, è allo stesso tempo assurdo e impossibile…
TORONTO – One might convincingly posit that Michele Placido’s film about Michelangelo Merisi of Caravaggio is a work worthy of the Baroque Artist’s approval – were he alive today to view it. Of course, one will never know, and to expect to capture the full context of a man’s life through a two-hour account, four hundred years removed, is both absurd and impossible.
TORONTO – Molto è stato scritto su un certo “psicodramma” che viene dalla capitale del Belpaese, su quella che i giornalisti hanno scherzosamente chiamato “la famiglia reale di Roma”…
TORONTO – Much has been written about a certain “psychodrama” coming out of Rome, about what journalists have playfully termed the Royal family of Rome. This is a reference of course to some people’s preoccupation with Ilary Blasi’s former marriage to retired Footballer Francesco Totti. Fortunately, for those who are desperately seeking answers about their dissolved marriage, Ilary Blasi and her team of filmmakers have documented her side of the story.
TORONTO – “Rapito” is a film whose scandalous history befitting of a 19th century Vatican, had initially lured the interest of Steven Spielberg. The American Director reportedly dropped the project after failing to find a suitable child actor for the lead role. While screening the film at Cannes last year, Rapito’s Italian Director Marco Bellocchio hypothesized on the American Director’s decision: “My feeling, speculation of course, is that he [Spielberg] may have seen the complexity of this very Italian and dramatic case, for which the Italian language is not necessarily obligatory, but very precious”.
