©Photo by Francesca Lucidi The Time It Takes : A devoted father working in the film industry shares a deep bond with his young daughter. Together, they discover the magical world of childhood through the daughter’s eyes and the Pinocchio set he’s currently working on, where chaos meets fantasy. The child becomes a daughter, and…
The 24th edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema — promoted by Film at Lincoln Center and Cinecittà, and scheduled from May 29th to June 5th — kicks off with the screening of Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole (The Time It Takes) by Francesca Comencini. Before landing at the Walter Reade Theatre, the picture premiered…
Marco Bellocchio, the secular director from Piacenza, has often explored the consequences of religious imposition — never being sententious yet remaining truthful to his laical perspective. In his 2002 film, My Mother’s Smile (L’ora di religione), he touched upon the sensitive issue of being baptised in treason. In that case it occurred to the son of the…
The Years of Lead is the term that defines Italy’s contemporary history characterised by horrific acts of bloodshed. This period of social and political turmoil — that lasted from the late Sixties until the late Eighties — was marked by both far-left and far-right terrorism. It was in 1978 that the leader of the Christian…
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