Tag: Alice Rohrwacher
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#45: Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
Set in central Italy, a young man navigates worlds both agrarian and metropolitan, past and future, just out of place in any setting.
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#43: The 35th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival
Recap on the Italian films featured: “Io capitano,” “La chimera,” and “Kidnapped.”
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La chimera (2023)
A sense of dread looms over a band of grave-robbers as the present struggles to coexist with the ancient.
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#42: The 59th Chicago International Film Festival
Recap of the Italian films featured at the festival, including reviews of “Kidnapped” and “The Beautiful Summer.”
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#37: Le pupille (Alice Rohrwacher, 2022)
An all-girls school is shaken by the prospect of a beautiful cake – an extravagant, tempting indulgence in an era of rationing and sacrifice.
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#31: The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher, 2014)
A struggling family of bee farmers get the chance to represent their way of life on a TV competition show.
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#14: Corpo celeste (Alice Rohrwacher, 2011)
This episode features an audio essay on Alice Rohrwacher’s debut fiction feature Corpo celeste (Heavenly Body), a modern-day take on Marta (Martha) from the Bible. We also explore the film’s themes of the sacred and the profane, expectations vs. reality, and who “is” the church. Plus, some quick news updates on the David di Donatello awards,…