CANNES – From the Cannes festival directly to cinemas. Here are the titles that have landed in Italian cinemas from the Croisette: first of all Furiousthe blockbuster of George Miller that nine years later Mad Max: Fury road delivered a prequel with Anya Taylor-Joy in her former role as a warrior Charlize Theron. Arriving in theaters last Thursday, it immediately jumped to first at the box office.
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Fresh from the award for best director in the Un certain regard section, it is already in cinemas The damned Of Roberto MinerviniI travel together with a group of Northern soldiers during the American Civil War in border mountain areas, in the uncertainty of an ancient war that is so similar to those of today.
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It is in theaters – after a simultaneous preview in Cannes where in some selected cinemas spectators were also able to attend the Montée de marche of Chiara Mastroianni and mum Catherine Deneuve – the film My Marcello Of Christophe Honore. A tribute to the great interpreter whose birth this year marks one hundred years and a film investigating the identity of a daughter of art. Who slowly disappears in his father’s cinematic imagination.
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To see Parthenope Of Paolo Sorrentino we will have to wait until mid-October when the film will arrive distributed by PiperFilm. I Wonder will bring to the theater The Substance pulp horror with Demi Moore And Margaret Qualley sold by Match Factory directed by the Frenchwoman Coralie Fargeat. Lucky Red together with BIM has been awarded the distribution of The seed of the sacred figthe film that the Iranian director daringly made Mohammad Rasoulof he managed to get out of the country and which even more daringly he came to present at the festival by fleeing the country where he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
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Lucky Red has also acquired the Italian rights of Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiarda curious object that mixes genres: thriller about the Mexican drug cartel, melody and musical comedy starring the Spanish trans actress, who became famous in Mexico with telenovelas, Karla Sofía Gascón.
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Still under the Lucky Red distribution there is Bird by the English director Andrea Arnoldthe story of the meeting between a twelve-year-old girl who lives in a London suburb and a young vagabond, Bird like the birds that the girl films with her mobile phone, played by the talented Franz Rogowski (Freaks out And Lubo). The films in competition will also arrive in Italy under the Lucky Red banner Gilles Lellouche L’amour oufa story of passion and crime in 1990s France and Miguel Gomez and its Grand tour black and white of two young Portuguese people in Asia between the colonial era and today. All titles that we will see in the next film season.
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Eagle announced that it has purchased the distribution rights to Megalopolis Of Francis Coppola while the Italian co-production will guarantee the release a Limonov Of Kirill Serebrennikova story between Russia and the United States of the mysterious and complex writer.
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Oh! Canada Of Paul Schrader with Richard Gere And Uma Thurman leads the list of the newly formed distribution Be Water and the biopic of the young Donald Trump The Apprentice Of Ali Abbasi will come out with BIM. The new project of Yorgos Lanthimos And Emma Stone Kind of Kindness will arrive with Disney, while the distribution for it is yet to be confirmed The Shrouds Of David Cronenberg with Diane Kruger And Vincent Cassel.
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Two of the films most loved by critics Diamant Brut of the French Agathe Riedingerstory of a girl who dreams of joining the cast of a reality show, and Anora Of Sean Baker, about a young New York sex worker I’m currently still without a distribution but everything suggests. The closing film of the competition The most valuable of marchandisesanimated film by Michel Hazanavicius which tells a fairy tale with a happy ending in the terrible days of the deportation of the Jews is also part of the Lucky Red price list.