2010 06 09 - IFF - GOOD MORNING AMAN

DIRECTORClaudio Noce
YEAR2009
GENREDrama
RATINGNC16 (Some Drug Use and Coarse Language)
CASTValerio Mastandrea, Said Sabrie, Anita Caprioli, Amin Nur, Giordano De Plano, Adamo Dionisi, Sandra Toffolati

synopsis
Aman, a 20 year-old Somali boy who grew up in Rome, works in a second-hand car store. Since he suffers from insomnia, during the night he wanders the streets alone, trying to pick up girls and dreaming about making it big in the world. One of those nights, he secretly goes up to the balcony of an apartment building, and there he meets Terry, a 40 years old ex boxer with an obscure past. The two become friends and little by little this friendship turns into a strongly ambiguous relation. Terry uses the boy for his own purpose, but Aman, in turn, foresees in this relation a chance of social redemption.

2010 06 09 - IFF - VINCERE

DIRECTOR : Marco Bellocchio
YEAR : 2009
GENRE : Drama
RATING : TBA
CAST : Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi, Fausto Russo Alesi

SYNOPSIS
The powerful new film from acclaimed auteur Marco Bellocchio (My Mothers Smile, Good Morning, Night, The Wedding Director), VINCERE is a compelling drama based on the little known story of Benito Mussolini’s first wife. Ida Dalsar (Giovanno Mezzogiorno) and Mussolini (Filippo Timi) begin their liaison in 1914; she is a well-to-do beauty salon owner and he is an impoverished young Socialist and union activist. When Ida sells all her possessions to fund her lover's new newspaper, the rise of Fascism is set into play. An official selection of the Cannes, Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals, VINCERE is a gripping film that combines drama, archive footage, and music creating a highly cinematic oratorio of enormous emotional force.

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