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Open Roads: ‘In The Mirror,’ Cinema As A Therapeutic Experience

Director Roberta Torre, inscribes on reel her love letter towards the esteemed Italian actress Monica Vitti. However, In The Mirror is not a biopic, it’s much better. It portrays how the power of cinema may be therapeutic to someone who is struggling with a neurological disorder. Monica (Alba Rohrwacher) suffers from the Korsakoff syndrome that…

New York Film Festival Review “All of Us Strangers”: Andrew Haigh’s Magnificent and Haunting Take on Taichi Yamada’s Book of The Power of Love and Loss

When you lose a parent there’s a lasting feeling of void and regret. About what you didn’t do, say, or hear them say. In “All of Us Strangers” a Londoner gets the second chance nobody gets. He reconnects with his dead parents in the 80s. The tone of what will come is set in the…

Exclusive Interview With Fanny Ardant at the Brussels International Film Festival

French actress Fanny Ardant has performed in more than eighty films, thirty plays, twenty television dramas and is recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards for Pédale douce (Soft Pedal) by Gabriel Aghion and for La Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos, as well as a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.  There is no other thespian who possesses her…

‘Queen of Italian Cinema’ Monica Vitti dies at 90

Monica Vitti, one of the icons of post-WWII Italian film, has died at the age of 90, accordin  to the Italian culture ministry, which said she was best known for her starring roles in films by Michelangelo Antonioni. Described by one critic as “the high priestess of frosty sensuality, She passed away on Wednesday after…