Love and Anarchy Cannes Filmotomy
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Rétrospective du Festival de Cannes: Film d’amore e d’anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza… / Love and Anarchy, 1973

Lina Wertmüller might have a German name, but she is an unsung heroine of Italian cinema. The writer and director was the very first woman…

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Incredible Line-up for Cannes Classics 2019 Announced

Oh boy. Not going to the Cannes Film Festival this year just got a whole lot more painful with the revelation of . There’ll be…

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Lina Wertmüller & Her Frames of Rebellion

Lina Wertmüller will open your mind, make you laugh, wince, and, at some point, probably piss you off. She was a force in 20th Century filmmaking, and the likes of Jane Campion, Sophia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig owe her a huge abbracciare for the path she carved through the male-dominated jungle of film directing.

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