We return to Poland (after Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border”) with a story about common intolerance signed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert. With Hors-Saison and Memory, we’re entering the couple’s minefield.
Withchronicles from the most transphobic country in Europe, Poland. After being punched in the stomach green border Agnieszka Holland, here at the competition, Friday 8, Kobieta Z… author: Malgorzata Szumowska e Michael Englert which, over the course of 45 years, tells the largely true story of Adam as he tries to be a good husband and father in a small town in Poland.
Kobieta Z…
But Adam feels more and more uncomfortable in his body, his true personality is different. The story of a transsexual who decides very late to accept his nature. after a life spent fighting the limitations of the bureaucracy and the hostility of most of the people around it
WITH Horse Seasonat competitions Stefan Brize, completing the trilogy of the work, he talks about feelings (not that they were absent in his previous films, on the contrary …) and the trauma of separation. The couple reunite after fifteen years. He, fifty-year-old Laurent (Guillaume Canet), a successful actor, but in crisis after giving up a role in the theater. She, forty-year-old Helen, is a pianist (Alba Rohrwacher), who lives in a small seaside town and still cannot forget Laurent and start life anew.
Snack
Third film in the competition of the day, Memory From michael franco, AND another story of a couple (Jessica Chastain and Peter Saarsgard) still in love this time, but whose relationship is not without obstacles
Horizons offer on Friday can only be Meatmonger, short animated film by Margherita Giusti, the true story of Selina Ayamikoko, a young Nigerian woman who dreams of becoming a butcher like her mother. To be able to fulfill this dream, he will undertake journey of atrocities and bestiality. The promising debut of producer Luca Guadagnino.
Coup!, the class struggle ends the Venetian days.
Coup! From Austin Stark, Josef Schumann and Peter Saarsgard it is the final film of Giornate degli Authori. Barricaded on their beach estate to protect themselves from the 1918 Spanish flu, a progressive journalist and his socialite wife take on cook of mysterious origin. When the epidemic spreads to the island, the family and staff find themselves cut off from the world and, like shipwrecked, struggle to survive. The new chef then tries to take advantage of the situation by persuading his colleagues to re-discuss their assignments and responsibilities. Yes, it looks like a Michel Franco movie…
Enzo Jannacci, I’ll come too
Out of competition, we’ll see Enzo Jannacci, I’ll come too Giorgio Verdelli. An eclectic and disturbing talent, Enzo Jannacci was a singer-songwriter, actor and physician. Thanks to him outstanding linguistic and musical inventionswas able to move between songwriting and cabaret, rock and roll and jazz, theater and film, making himself an interpreter of the contradictions of his time and his city of Milan. Documentary giving an intimate and poetic portrait of an artist who has gone through many different genres because he himself was a “genre” in which archival footage interspersed with interviews with the personalities of the contemporary Italian musical world
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