QuoteThe Naples set coming-of-age drama follows Parthenope over decades — first, as a young woman summering in Capri with her beloved brother Raimondo (Daniele Rienzo) and his best friend Sandrino (Dario Aita) in a sordid, not-so-family-oriented love triangle. The film then follows her over the years as she meets lovers and friends while she figures out what she wants to do with her life before settling on studying anthropology. It's an epic tale of a woman living her life by her own principles at a time and place where women rarely did so.
Oscar winner Sorrentino ("The Great Beauty") takes an unusual step in his filmography by placing a woman at the center of his latest exploration of youth and time's passing.
"It's connected to a particular literary genre, which is epic. Epic tales historically were male-dominated, and they had almost exclusively male protagonists. Therefore, I thought it would be repetitive because so much has already been done and said. There's been so much effort and commitment [on] the part of women. When we're focusing on an epic dimension, the epic dimension belongs to women in this day and age a lot more than it belongs to men," he said via Interpreter Lilia Pino Blouin.
QuoteLynch, born in Montana, had moved around the United States with his family, as his father, a research scientist employed by the government, moved from post to post, spending the bulk of his teen years in Virginia. Lynch later recalled having, despite the repeated moves, a rather idyllic childhood, and his art, of course, became preoccupied with depicting and conceiving the discovery of the existence of the teeming strangeness and threat in the world.
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Despite all his more high-falutin' allegiances and associations, Lynch was every bit as much a member of the Movie Brat generation in terms of his preoccupations and imaginative spurs as, say, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, or John Carpenter, and crucially similar to them in fundamental ways, even as his expressive modes and appeal jumped the guard rails into different artistic methods and motifs: somehow Lynch managed to be as American as apple pie whilst also channelling artistic modes utterly at odds with convention. Like Spielberg he was compelled by the theme of the suburban quotidian in American life being upended by squalls of chaos and threat and the roar of the semi-suppressed id. Like Carpenter his suburbs are riddled with emanations from a reality-fracturing supernatural beyond. Like Lucas he contended with the tension between rebellion and conformity, and often couched it in terms of a battle between the monstrous father figure and the ardent but tempted youth. Lucas was perhaps being a little more canny and attentive than it seemed when he offered the chance to direct Star Wars – Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) to Lynch, who chose to do Dune instead. I could even go so far to say that Mulholland Drive is to Blue Velvet what Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005) was to his original triptych – playing with the same essential ideas, story, and archetypes, but delving more deeply into a sense of social and political context as the backdrop to a revision of the original myth, full of evil empires and puppet-masters, golems and dark mages of backroom machinations, and also where the now the hero is also the villain.
QuoteWhen Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World) is called to a parent-teacher conference after hours, she is presented with scathing allegations that trigger a tangled web of accusations between parents and faculty.
QuoteReal-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara are now looking to play fictional sisters as the two are set to star in Bucking Fastard, a new movie from Werner Herzog.
Herzog will write and direct the film, with Ariel Leon Isacovitch and Agnes Chu producing, along with Andrea Bucko and Emanuele Moretti of Cobalt Sky Motion Picture Group. Production is set to start this spring in Ireland and Slovenia.
The film is based on the true story of inseparable twin sisters Joan and Jean, who live on the fringes of society.
The film marks the first time the sisters have worked together. For Rooney, the two-time Oscar nominee was most recently seen in the Orion Pictures drama Women Talking from writer-director Sarah Polley. She is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.