There’s a kinetic vibrancy to the photography and the direction gives the young performers enough room to breathe without ever taking the viewer out of the experiential aesthetic. While the elevator pitch may seem a bit sterile (young woman deals with neglectful parents and a sort of “first love” all as young adulthood is staring them in the face), Sirley is a film born of a documentarian’s eye, with Amoruso’s camera being intimate while never exploitative. The film comes from director Elisa Amoruso, and is a work of auto-fiction that tells the story of a young girl’s struggles as she tries to find a place in the world while facing oncoming adulthood. Sirley marks, unlike For Lucio, not a director’s return to documentary but instead a documentarian’s debut fiction feature. Marcello’s direction is propulsive and enveloping, turning what could be a rather esoteric work of historical scholarship into a powerful piece of political pop art.įrom one of the more talked about films to one of the festival’s biggest surprises. A personification of a nation in a moment of great evolution, Dalla’s rise in the 1960’s and 70s is a fascinating exploration of encroaching globalization and consumerism. Blending both interviews with Dalla’s collaborators as well as archival footage of the man himself, the documentary is a formally entrancing rumination on postwar Italy as seen through one artist’s own modernization. Marcello’s first documentary since 2011’s The Silence of Pelesjan, For Lucio feels less like a change of pace for the director than some sort of spiritual extension of his previous masterpiece. Coming off of 2020’s brilliant Martin Eden, Marcello takes to the world of non-fiction cinema to tell the story of Bolognese singer Lucio Dalla. That is unless you’re privy to a festival like Open Roads: New Italian Cinema.Įntering its latest, virtual edition this week, Open Roads is the latest teaming of Film At Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecitta, and hopes to bring to light the latest and greatest in inventive, ground-breaking filmmaking from Italy.Īrguably the most talked about film of the bunch comes from the festival’s best known creator, Pietro Marcello. However, what with foreign language cinema being pushed further and further into the world of art houses and speciality cinemas, much of modern Italian cinema has gone rather under-appreciated. Be it socio-political neo-realism or the equally boundary-pushing giallo, or even the genre-defining Spaghetti Western, Italian films have become some of the most influential and culturally important in the whole of film history. Scott Edel from Loeb & Loeb negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers.Throughout the history of film, Italian cinema has been at the forefront of some of the most fascinating movements in all motion pictures. The deal was negotiated on behalf of Open Road Films by Tom Ortenberg, CEO, General Counsel Marni Richman, and Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Production Lejo Pet.

Everyone from China to Culver City is delivering a visually stunning and enchanting film that all audiences will fall in love with all over the world,” said Finkelman Cox and Rabins. “ Duck Duck Goose has been an amazing international collaboration from start to finish and we could not be more proud of the artistry, storytelling and the dazzling animation accomplished by the team at Original Force Animation. In addition to being a wholly original story filled with lovably funny and relatable characters that the entire family will enjoy, the animation in Duck Duck Goose is truly superb and the project is a welcome addition to our 2018 slate.” “Sandy and Penney are legends in animation having launched Sony Pictures Animation and DreamWorks Animation, and their impressive track record developing and producing commercial and critical hits in this space speaks for itself. “We are thrilled to be in business with Harley Zhao and the team at Original Force,” stated Ortenberg. Duck Duck Goose also features the voices of Greg Proops, Natasha Leggero, Reggie Watts, Diedrich Bader, Jennifer Grey, Rick Overton, Craig Ferguson, Stephen Fry and the legendary Carl Reiner. In Duck Duck Goose, a high-flying bachelor goose named Peng (voiced by Jim Gaffigan) is injured in flight and finds himself saddled with two adorably hilarious and demanding ducklings (voiced by Zendaya and Lance Lim) on a long journey south that turns the scrappy threesome into a family.

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