“Fear of a female planet”: This is how the refrain of Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing” ends, in the most emblematic scene of Hal Hartley’s Simple Men. Simple Women fearlessly introduces the complex universe of two women who come closer through cinema and get to know and lose their self – and all that remains hidden behind their public image. A young, restless filmmaker decides to sh...
the plot of which unfolds in 1900. Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian courtesan at the height of her fame, flees Paris in order to conceal her daughter, who has been deemed an “idiot”. After arriving in Rome, her life is turned upside down when she meets a female doctor who has developed a method of helping intellectually challenged children: Maria Montessori. However, if she wishes to ...
《十日谈》是包揽戛纳金棕榈奖、威尼斯金狮奖、柏林金熊奖的意大利国宝级导演——塔维亚尼兄弟(Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani)继《凯撒必须死》之后的最新力作。影片利用新颖的电影创作手法重新演绎了世界文学名著《十日谈》,使电影故事充满了超现实主义的诗意。塔维亚尼兄弟恰到好处地掘取了《十日谈》故事中的精华并予以独具匠心的雕琢,保留了人文主义思想的核心,赞美爱情是才华和高尚情操的源泉,将影片主旨设定在“爱情与生命之美”,并用沉静、自然与美丽的故事核心,探讨并化解当代青年人的面对生存艰难时的恐惧。
影片在场景及角色上也进行了深思熟虑的设计,使文学元素充分融入到画面及观影氛围中。来自曾凭《凯撒必须死》摘下柏林金熊奖的团队摄影师为影片带来了简明的影像风格,使之拥有紧凑、严谨的视觉体系。影片囊括了大批出色的意大利大牌与新秀卡司,演员生动...
The story is loosely based on the life of Rocco Siffredi and his direct testimonies, revolving around unseen aspects of the pornstar and recounting a profound tale which explores his life from childhood onwards: his family, his origins, his relationship with love, and the starting point and context which caused him to take the path of pornography.