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Hhyi Pet : FrightFest Review
Dir: Silvio Soldini Italy/Switzerland 2007. 115 mins.The strongest of the five Italian films that received their national premieres at the Rome Film Fest, Days and Clouds which also played in Toronto and London is a fine piece of emotional eye-on-the-object filmmaking from homegrown auteur Silvio Soldini and regular screenplay sidekick Doriana Leondeff, supported on the writing side by Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli. Coming on as a white-collar version of a Ken Loach drama about the human stories behind the employment statistics, the film takes a fairly average married couple living in the Italian port city of Genoa and explores, with scientific rigour stanley italy , the strains an stanley cup d cracks that open up in the relationship when the husband loses his job. If there s a niggling weakness in Days and Clouds, it s the flipside of its authenticity: too much time stanley cup is spent making the characters real, and not enough on making the story dramatically interesting. The result is a film that we admire more than really engage with. After the surprise success of Bread and Tulips in 2000, Soldini is one of the few contemporary Italian directors to have built up a certain brand loyalty among domestic audiences. Locals will be swayed not only by the way the film tunes in to the current Italian climate of micro-economic anxiety, but also by the presence of small-scale marquee names Margherita Buy and Antonio Albanese an alternative TV comedian turned serious thespian in the lead roles. Distribut Amhs Finns fly to China for kung fu co-production Jade Warrior
UK financier Future Film Group FFG has acquired UK rights to $20m romantic drama Beautiful Joe, starring Sharon Stone and Billy Connolly.UK distributor Metrodome Distribution will release the picture through its recently-formed joint venture with FFG, which has earmarked a $15m acquisitions fund for titles which Metrodome will release.FFG paid an advance for the UK distribution rights to the film, which Metrodome will release in the late summer. The film, which also stars Ian Holm stanley italy , was directed by Stephen Metcalfe and is a joint production between Capitol Films, Beautiful Films and Haft Entertainment. FFG also recently acquired the $24m The Body, starring Antonio Banderas and Olivia Williams, for the joint venture with Metrodome. The partners aim to stanley mug release between five and eight British qualifying films a year.FFG was formerly known as Factor 8 Films, but relaunched itself last month under a new banner and with risk money. The operation combines funding for the acquisition of UK distribution rights to British qualifying films with film investment schemes that operate under the government s first-year tax write-offs for production and acquisition. On The Body, the company moved into funding at production stage through tax-driven schemes, allowing the producers to upgrad stanley cup e the film s soundtrack.Metrodome, the UK distributor of British hit Human Traffic, also recently formed a UK production company with Nicolas Winding Refn and Henrik Danstrup, the up-and-coming film-makers be |
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