Thursday 4th – Archivio RIFF

L’ultima foglia

riff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:30:49 +0000

The story deals with the events in the lives of Zeno and Rossana, immersing the spectator in the sentimental apathy that marks todays relationships. He is a night watchman and she is a musician. When they move to Rome for work reasons, things are already bad between them, and the change only worsens their sentimental inertia. In fact they begin to live in two different temporal dimensions: Rossana locks herself up in their home as if it were a cage, while Zeno spends his nights doing rounds across the city with his lively and easy-going colleague Tom. Zenos friendship with Tom, and particularly with Ela, a young foreign barmaid, is a comfort for him, but also create significant inner turmoil

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Il Futuro

riff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:20:24 +0000

When her parents die in a car accident, adolescent Biancas universe is upended. Staying alone in the familys Rome apartment and entrusted with the care of her younger brother, Tomas, she struggles to hold things together as her place in her surreal new world becomes blurry. Life is further complicated when Tomass gym-rat friends invite themselves to stay indefinitely. Using Bianca as a lure for a heist theyve concocted, they convince her to initiate a sexual relationship with enigmatic blind hermit Maciste, played by Rutger Hauer. But as the two spend time together, Bianca unexpectedly finds normalcy and acceptance in the aging B-movie star and former Mr. Universes rococo mansion.

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Napoleone torna alla Galleria Borghese

riff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:00:00 +0000

The movie describes the meticulous carriage of 60 statues from the Louvre Museum to Rome, on the occasion of a major exhibition set up at the Galleria Borghese. These statues belonged to Scipione Borghese but in the XIX century Napoleon took them to France and since then Rome has never managed to get them back. The documentary shows us how extraordinary this event is, throughout the significant testimony given by the exhibition curators, Louvre Director and other experts.

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Eros

riff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:40:43 +0000

Eros tells the journey of three activists of the Occupied Valle Theatre through Europe, a continent struggling with recession and the efforts to survive it. The trip links the opposite sides of a system on the edge of a collapse: from Athens, where a group of artists occupied the Empros theatre, to Frankfurt, where thousands of activists plan to block the ECB activities for a day. Eros is polymorphous, fluid and nomadic. It visually links the reportage of the travel with footage from different sources and experiences. Eros is the passion of moving people, ideas and visions.

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Reciclamadrid

riff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:20:12 +0000

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

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Farewell Tune

riff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:40:56 +0000

Nuri is a violinist who only plays farewell songs for the suicides, this is how he makes a living. He never has an audience, he enters many lives, says a proper goodbye without interference and gets out. This has worked perfectly until he meets Azat.

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Two Weeks Tops

riff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:40:18 +0000

Gome, a poet and thinker, is being evicted from his apartment and with no place to go finds himself at his childhood home where he must face his parents and choice of life. The only person Gome finds a mutual language with is his niece who is turning 7 and has a birthday party coming.

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