Have you ever been impressed by someone’s accomplishment and rationalized it by instinctively pulling out the usual excuses such as oh that most likely takes lots of experience, money, contacts and anything else that you can come up with to sooth your ego and inaction?
The reality is that we’re all doing it all the time [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 09.23.2009 at 8:48 pm// Tagged: Drama, Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema
In-line with Independence Day here in the US, I figured it’s a good opportunity to deconstruct the concept of independence and throw it against Italian cinema backdrop. You can never know what you’ll find. When we speak of independence you can literally place it in wide range of contexts; from emotional, financial, political, to physical. [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 07.04.2009 at 12:21 pm// Tagged: Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema
It’s part of the trio short movies proposed by Per Fiducia, the project already described in the review of Il Premio.
This is an intense shot on reality. When we say the eloquence of silence. He makes the silence speak. Slowly, sweetly, deeply. Black and white, and we are already into a poem. Every single shot [...]
Posted by Laura Bianconcini on 04.27.2009 at 12:50 am// Tagged: Documentary, Drama, Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Cinema, Political, Romance, Short
This short film is part of “Per Fiducia” (“Through Trust”), an ambitious project that unites three award-winning directors Ermanno Olmi, Gabriele Salvatores, and Paolo Sorrentino in cooperation with Intessa Sanpaolo – to answer a simple, yet timely question:
Can movies, as mirrors to reality, change it and give hope, especially in dark moments?
The answer is resounding [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 04.26.2009 at 3:13 pm// Tagged: Drama, Modern Italian Cinema, Political, Romance, Short , ermanno olmi, Per Fiducia, train
In tune with the tough economic times these days, the film explores the impact of a job loss on a middle class family in Genoa.
I found this film very interesting, especially when viewed through the prism of The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica – 1948). Both effectively depict the rigid patriarchal family structure [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 03.28.2009 at 9:17 am// Tagged: Drama, Modern Italian Cinema