 Margherita Buy and Sergio Rubini in a scene from the 'Crisis' segment of Giovanni Veronesi's 'Manuale d'amore' (Manual of Love). Photo (c): Filmauro, 2005. In Giovanni Veronesi’s genial Italian comedy Manuale d’amore (Manual of Love), four separate but interconnected stories illustrate four chapters from the book of the title: Infatuation, Crisis, Betrayal and Abandonment. The 2005 film, one of the biggest local boxoffice successes of that year, can now be seen in Great Britain as part of the Italian Film Festival UK, which started Friday, November 17. Together with some 25 recent titles and a few classics, the festival offers a great opportunity to catch up (or get acquainted) with Italian cinema. The festival selection is shown at various venues throughout the UK. Using the Manual of Love chapter headings for guidance, Boyd van Hoeij, the editor of european-films.net and frequent kamera.co.uk contributor, proposes this small festival guide of five recent Italian films that he loved. |
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 Pedro Almodóvar on the set of 'Volver'. Photo (c): Paola Ardizzoni/Emilio Pereda, 2005. While his latest film Volver recently premiered on American screens, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s earlier life and filmography is explored in the new Marvin D’Lugo book “Pedro Almodóvar”, part of the Contemporary Film Directors series of the University of Illinois Press. In this handsome little volume the professor of Spanish and adjunct professor of screen studies at Clark University covers all the films of Almodóvar up until his last film before Volver, La mala educación (Bad Education), and also looks at the bad boy of Spanish cinema’s own education as a filmmaker and auteur extraordinaire. The result is an insightful look at the parallel trajectories of Almodóvar’s cinematic output and the cultivation of the Almodóvar persona.
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 Finnish director Aku Louhimies at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Photo portrait by Fabrizio Maltese for european-films.net, July 2006. All rights reserved. With Valkoinen kaupunki (Frozen City), Finnish director Aku Louhimies returns to the frozen and snow-covered streets of Helsinki after his recent international success Paha Maa (Frozen Land). His new film offers an intimate portrait of an essentially good young father driven to desperation by the ugly divorce from his wife and then accused of an act he cannot remember committing. Boyd van Hoeij, the editor of european-films.net, spoke with the director at the Karlovy Film Festival in the Czech Republic, where the film had its premiere in the International Competition and would eventually walk away with the Europa Cinemas label, the FIPRESCI prize and a Don Quijote Special Mention. The film will premiere in Finland on November 17. |
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