Gli Amici Del Bar Margherita
Gli amici del Bar Margherita
(Friends of the Bar Margherita)
Director:Pupi AVATI
Screenplay:Pupi AVATI
Genre:Comedy
Release Year:2009
Country:Italy
Cast:Diego Abatantuono, Pierpaolo Zizzi,
Laura Chiatti, Fabio De Luigi, Luigi Lo Cascio
Neri Marcoré, Luisa Ranieri, Claudio Botosso,
Gianni Ippoliti, Gianni Cavina, Catia Ricciarelli.
Music By:Lucio Dalla
Running Time:90min
Format:35mm (colour)
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Rating: Parental Guidance is Advised
SYNOPSIS
Bologna 1954. Taddeo (Pierpaolo Zizzi) is an 18 year old boy that dreams of one day becoming a regular of the legendary Bar Margherita that is situated under the porticos facing his house. Through a cleverly devised stratagem, Taddeo becomes the driver to Al (Diego Abatantuono), one of the most charismatic and mysterious men of the neighbourhood. Through his newly found ‘protection’, Taddeo becomes a witness to: Bep’s (Neri Marcoré) adventures and his love for the intriguing Marcella (Laura Chiatti), Manuelo’s (Luigi Lo Cascio) follies, Zanchi’s (Claudio Botosso) cruelties and Sarti’s (Gianni Ippolito) idiosyncrasies. The question however remains, will Taddeo whom everyone calls ‘Coso’ (thing) manage to become ‘one’ of the Bar Margherita?
EX – Il film(EX – The film)
Director:Fausto BRIZZI
Screenplay:Fausto BRIZZI, Marco MARTANI, Massimiliano BRUNO
Genre:Comedy-Drama
Release Year:2009
Country:Italy / France
Cast:Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Cristiana Capotondi,
Cécile Cassel, Fabio De Luigi, Alessandro Gassman,
Claudia Gerini,Silvio Orlando, Carla Signoris, Gian Marco Tognazzi, Malik Zidi, Vincenzo Salemme.
Running Time:120min
Format:35mm (colour)
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Rating: Parental Guidance is Advised
SYNOPSIS
The film begins where ordinarily Romantic Comedies end: different couples kiss and declare eternal love. But do they really live ‘Happily Ever After’? Ex follows the crisscrossing lives of six couples: Filippo (Vincenzo Salemme) and Caterina (Nancy Brilli) are in the midst of a divorce and are battling ‘NOT’ to get custody of the children; Luca (Silvio Orlando) and Loredana (Carla Signoris) are caught in a divorce that is worthy of the ‘War of the Roses’ so Luca goes to live with his son in a student’s hostel where at 50 odd years of age he becomes a true Peter Pan; Sergio, (Claudio Bisio) divorced for years and a lover of life in general finds himself having to be a father to two complicated adolescent girls after the unexpected death of his ex-wife; Elisa (Claudia Gerini) is about to be married to Corrado (Gian Marco Tognazzi) when she meets up with an Ex from her past who unwittingly happens to be the priest ( Don Lorenzo) that is to conduct the wedding; Giulia (Cristiana Capotondi) lives with Marc (Malik Zidi) in Paris however an unplanned transfer to New Zealand transforms their cohabitation into a long-distance relationship that threatens to turn them into Ex’s. Paolo (Fabio De Luigi) is engaged to Monique (Cécile Cassel) and is threatened by Davide (Alessandro Gassman), Monique’s Ex who is extremely jelouse and who has not resigned himself to being an Ex. The stories of these couples play out between Christmas and St Valentine’s Day, their numerous links to each other give life to an elaborate structure that is reminiscent of those great English Comedies the likes of ‘Love Actually’ and ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’.
La siciliana ribelle
(The Sicilian Girl)
Director:Marco AMENTA
Screenplay:Marco AMENTA, Sergio DONATI
Genre:Drama
Release Year:2009
Country:Italy
Cast:Veronica D’Agostino, Gérard Jugnot, Marcello Mazzarella, Lucia Sardo
Running Time:110min
Format:35mm (colour)
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Rating: PG16 (SVL)
SYNOPSIS
Freely inspired by real events the film begins on a November morning in 1991, when 17 year old Rita approaches the Chief Prosecutor of Palermo, intent on vindicating her father's and brother's mafia related deaths. This event marks the first time that the daughter of a mafia family openly rebels against the traditionally male dominated organization. From then on, Rita's days are numbered.
Repudiated and threatened by her boyfriend, her hometown and even her mother, she is forced to leave Sicily and seek asylum in Rome where she lives under another name.
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Director:Marco PONTECORVO
Screenplay:Marco PONTECORVO, Roberto TIRABOSCHI
Genre:Biography / Drama
Production Year:2008
Country:Italy, France, Romania
Cast:Jalil Lespert, Evita Ciri, Daniele Formica, Gabriel Rauta, Patrice Juiff, Bruna A. Kremer, Robert Valeanu,
Cristina Nita, Liviu Bituc
Running Time:100min
Format:35mm (colour)
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Rating:Parental Guidance is advised
SYNOPSIS
Miloud is aFrench-Algerian clown that moves to Bucharest three years after the end of the Ceausescu Dictatorship. Here he meets the ‘boskettari’, dirt poor orphans that live on the canals and subterranean passages around the city. After winningover the children, Miloud establishes the Parada Circus which gives the children a future as performers and a means to escape their otherwise violent and often fatal street fate. The film is based on a true story.
Ritorno a Kurumuny(Cape Town only)
Return to Kurumuny
Director: Piero Cannizzaro
Camera: Marc Vanput
Sound: Massimiliano D'Ottavi
Editing: Massimiliano D'Ottavi
Running time: 36 mn
Year of production: 2003
SYNOPSES
A short documentary shot in Puglia, a region in southern Italy, on 1 May 2003. A group of singers perform popular old songs that deal with their environment and work. Kurumuny is the locale where director Piero Cannizzaro interviewed the people who helped prepare this show. He recorded a good number of testimonies about the popular songs that evoke the life of the region's workers at several moments in history, right up to the present day, when they are still presented to the public, like an perpetual confrontation with our modern times. Fipatel
FILM FACT FILE
EX – il film
Box office hit 2008/2009
Partly filmed in Cape Town
La siciliana ribelle / The Sicilian Girl (Marco Amenta)
Presented at the Rome Film Festival
Two nominations for the David di Donatello 2009
Candidate for the David Giovani
Marco Amenta is among the top five New Directors
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PREMIO DON GNOCCHI 65° Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia
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PREMIO ROBERTO ROSSELLINI - Maiori
PREMIO DEL PUBBLICO 23° Festival Internazionale di Mar Del Plata, Argentina
PREMIO DEL PUBBLICO “CINEMA MIRACOLO”-Festival du film italien à Paris – 2e édition
PREMIO MEDITERRANTE Sezione I (ragazzi 10-14 anni) 1° Edizione Festival Mediterrante, Bari
PREMIO CASTELLO D'ARGENTO 21° Edizione Castellinaria – Festival Internazionale del Cinema Giovane
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