Cannes will bring eleven films from its latest edition to Florence

Florence – For the fifth year in a row, France Odeon brings Cannes to Florence.. The line-up has evolved this time Francesco Martinotti, understands 11 most significant titles from the 71st edition.just summed up: six from the official selection of the competition (including the Palme d’Or), the remaining five from Directors’ Fortnightthe most combative and non-standard section of the festival.

Everything is presented for Florence, in the original version with subtitles, screenings take place at the French Institute in Piazza Ognissanti. from 12 to 14 June and then from the 15th to the 17th at Cinema La Compagnia in Via Cavour.. In honor of Quinzen’s 50th anniversary, the departure is in tune with the atmosphere of the time and the heroes of that time, amid barricades and protests.

The turbulence of Cannes 68 comes alive again in Giovanni Cocconi’s reading of Tourbillon of Life. dedicated specifically to the two champions Truffaut and Godard, and more panorama to the May season in France, followed by “Le livre d’image”, the latest work of the hermit JLG, awarded a special Palme d’Or, experiment. on the image, its excesses and its limits.

The day ends with Petra, a French-Spanish production directed by Jaime Rosales., starring the great Marisa Paredes. We remain at the French Institute, where on Wednesday the 13th the program includes Pajaros de Verano by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, the saga of a family of farmers from a Colombian village who became one of the largest drug traffickers in the 1970s, and “Winter’s War” by Pawel Pawlikowski (already the director of Ida, which won the 2015 Best Foreign Film Oscar), a tense love story set against the backdrop of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, was awarded for Best Director. On Thursday 14th, during Godard’s re-run, we will be able to see Buy Me a Revolver, another Latin American production from director Julio Hernández Cordón, an adventurous tale of violence and oppression in a country under patriarchal laws where women are forced into prostitution. and killed.

The three days at Compagnia were delightful and vibrant, with a wonderful overview of the winners.. Let’s start with Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaum, which won three awards (Grand Prize of the Jury, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Prize of La Libera), the story of a childhood deprived of life in the degraded suburbs of Beirut. We continue “Se Rokh” by the Iranian Jafar Panahi, winner in the category “Best Screenplay” (shared with “Lazzaro Felice” by Alice Rohrwacher), a story about a road among the remote mountains of the northwest, on the border with Turkey. in search of a girl who turned to a famous Iranian actress for help in dealing with violence from her family.

Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s Manwiki Kazoku ended on a high note with the Palme d’Or., the story of a unique family made up of people who are not actually related but are united by one need, the need to find comfort under a roof, a film that combines the inspiration of Dickens and the neorealist poetics of Zavattini. Finally, for lovers (but not only) of great couples in art and life, Xavier Bardem and Penélope Cruz together in Asghar Farhadi’s “Todos lo saben” (a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires returns to her hometown near Madrid to host attending his sister’s wedding, a family reunion in which a long-buried past comes to light), while the hosts find support in Philippe Faucon’s “Amine” (author of “Fatima”) and Romain Gavras’s “Le monde est à toi” with Vincent Cassel and Isabelle Adjani. Information and full program www.franceoodeon.com

Photo: Capharnaum by Nadine Labaki