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THE EGYPT OF GHADA ABDEL AAL. Interview with Egyptian blogger and writer Ghada Abdel Aal
In 2006, a young thirty year old Egyptian, Ghada Abdel Aal, decides to start a blog titled “Wanna be a bride”, to vent about her vicissitudes related to the difficulties of finding her husband in a society as the Egypt, where a woman can hardly choose whom to marry or even remain single, especially after age 30. [...]
FEFF 14: The Longest Nite, review
Inside the Udine Far East Film Festival this year found some space films produced by Johnnie To, the festival’s guest of honor, and yesterday we saw The Longest Nite, a noir thriller from 1998 directed by Patrick Yau with Tony Leung , Lau Ching Wan andMaggie Siu between the main protagonists. The story sees two warring gangs forge an ‘alliance against a powerful boss who [...]
FEFF 14: The complete program
There are only a very few days at the beginning of the fourteenth edition of the Far East Film Festival and the city of Udine is preparing to host the event organized by the CEC – Centre Cinemaand expressions to be held in the city 20 to 28 April this year. Introducing himself always as the most important showcase for [...]
Diaz – Don’t Clean this Blood, review
To remember the Genoa’s 2001 -G8- for someone it’s a horrible memory, very difficult to delete. For someone these horrible scars have to be surgically exported. But to heal up a scar it’s necessary to make the right act of critical conscience. Bravery is necessary. Daniele Vicari in “his” Diaz (but since it’s coming out it’s “our” [...]
Woody Allen in Rome for To Rome With Love
Today, April 13, was presented in Rome for the world premiere of Woody Allen’s new film dedicated to the eternal city. We speak about To Rome With Love, a comedy by italian flavor with an international cast that includes Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Roberto Benigni, Antonio Albanian and many others. After the success of Midnight in Paris,won the Oscar for [...]
Khaled Hosseini interview
When we talk about Khaled Hosseini we can not forget the emotions that we got with The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007), two best-selling international success that made the world aware of the tragedies experienced by women in Afghanistan and children as a result of devastating wars. We have been able to appreciate the first [...]
Trailers
Far East Film Festival 14, trailer
Even Udine this year is preparing for the famous Far East Film Festival, the film festival now in its 14th edition East to be held 20 to 28 April 2012 at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine and Visionary. To realize the trailer for this year is the presentation of Filipino director Quark Henares, love of FEFF. [...]
Safe House review
Safe House, the action thriller directed by Daniel Espinosa and presented by Universal Pictures. The main actors are Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, a couple who sends a good chemistry together, enriched by a great supporting cast made up of Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Ruben Blades and Robert Patrick.The screenplay was done by David Guggenheim, on which the producer Scott Stuber said: [...]
Albert Nobbs, trailer
19th century Ireland; a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of pverty and loneliness. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years – ‘he’ is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all [...]
Home for The Weekend, trailer DE
Marko is in his mid-30s and has lived in Berlin ever since he started studying – far enough away from his parents Gitte and Günter whose middle-class lifestyle never really made him feel comfortable. He visits his parents once or twice a year, mainly to let them spend a few days with their grandchild, Marko’s [...]
