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Monicelli: The elements of Italian comedy

Senza questi elementi, fame, morte, malattia e miseria noi non potremmo far ridere in Italia.

Mario Monicelli

REVIEWS

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

A film of marginal pairs’ balance that move among realism and fantasy, hope and disillusionment, justice and injustice, heterosexuality and homosexuality, AIDS and life.

Fuoco! (Fire!, 1968)

Gian Vittorio Baldi directs a piece of art that through its consistency can work on political and dramaturgical level without losing its impactful realism.

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence – Venice 71

The best finale to Roy Andersson's witty and extremely unpredictable existentialistic Living Trilogy. Golden Lion at the 71st Venice Film Festival.

Interruption – Venice 72 Orizzonti

With his directorial debut, Yorgos Zois breaks the fourth wall as he is experimenting on how myth and art interrupt actual life. Or is it the other way around?

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Iveta Grófová depicts the bleak life in Bohemia that has gradually become Germany's poor man's Thailand.

TagMario Monicelli

Monicelli: The elements of Italian comedy

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

Fuoco! (Fire!, 1968)

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence – Venice 71

Interruption – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

TV vs. Cinema by Jean-Luc Godard

Francesco Rosi: The cinema of emotions

Ingmar Bergman on existence

Béla Tarr on Filmmaking

Soft and Hard (1986)