In a short but impressive career, Sara Serraiocco has taken Italian cinema by storm, currently starring as a determined synchronized swimmer faced with tragedy in the coming-of-age drama Chlorine. Since making her on-screen debut in 2013 as a blind g …Read more
Once in a while, a movie comes along about a topic seldom discussed in order to delve into universal concepts of love, sex, friendship and family. Duccio Chiarini’s debut film Short Skin does this, using a condition of the penis called phimosis as a …Read more
Ivano De Matteo’s gripping drama The Dinner, loosely inspired by the eponymous bestseller by Herman Koch, explores how tragedy brings forth the hidden character of family members in a modern-day Cain and Abel allegory. Massimo and his younger brother …Read more
It’s about time American audiences feasted on a sex comedy with more than just a shallow heartbeat. Unlike American Pie, which was too sanitized, too clean, too “Hollywood”, Duccio Chiarini’s Short Skin has dared to go where its predecessor only hint …Read more
Sara Serraiocco stars as seventeen-year-old Jenny in Chlorine (Cloro), a lovely and melancholic portrait of a girl’s struggle to fulfill her purpose and make sense of the world in the midst of familial dysfunction and tragedy. A devoted synchronized …Read more
Set against the backdrop of a massive student strike, Alonso Ruizpalacios’ coming-of-age film Güeros is a playful and lyrical love letter to his native Mexico City. Embarking on a road trip in search of a fabled folk singer, two brothers, Sombra and …Read more
Three insignificant souls try to make the most of their humdrum lives in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama The Flick by Annie Baker, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge Off Broadway in the p …Read more
The British are coming! Off Broadway, that is, as part of 59E59 Theaters’ Brits Off Broadway Festival, introducing American audiences to innovative works from the UK. Writer and director Lucia Cox pays homage to Anthony Burgess with her inspired adap …Read more
Fatalism, consumerism and a heady love triangle lead to a deliciously wicked conclusion in director Lucia Cox’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ One Hand Clapping. The 1961 novel, originally published in the UK under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, is a fri …Read more
What kind of film would Forrest Gump be if it were re-imagined by the Swedes nearly two decades later? If adapted for the big screen from the best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, it would be a silly, light-hearted comedy. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Cl …Read more
