Category: Arts & Culture

CORRIERE CANADESE / L’ombra di Caravaggio: il Tenebroso

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… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>

Caravaggio’s Shadow: Il Tenebroso

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. 

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Unica: Ilary’s Truth

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.

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