Others conduct their business on the hoods of parked cars. Some use campers they keep parked around the street corners. There are streets for transvestites, male prostitutes and Nigerian women there are also streets lined with eastern European women and others with Asian girls. But of late it is also an open air market for sex.ĭrive down any of 20 or more EUR streets after dark-and often during the day-and you can’t miss prostitutes who are grouped according to race, sexual orientation and, it would seem, sexual titillation level. The neighborhood has since become a commercial Mecca with posh apartments and wide boulevards. That World’s Fair, during which Mussolini planned to showcase 20 years of fascism, was quashed thanks to World War II. But fragile as young people generally are regarded, I wished that Anna and Basim were not as helpless as they were portrayed here.ROME - The EUR neighborhood south of the city center was developed in the 1930s by Italy’s Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini to re-create ancient Rome’s splendor ahead of the 1942 World’s Fair, thus the name Espozione Universiale Roma. Kone and Bogach both give soulful and touching performances. She touches upon post-me too generation concerns and also immigration issues the country is facing. Luchetti's delicate direction with two young first time actors is the marvel of Twin Flower. But things are not going to stay as they are for long. With Manfredi still looking for Anna, the two young people find their shelter in the streets, fields and abandoned houses.Īnna gets a job working for an kind old florist in town who seem to understand her situation in silence while Basim sells his body to strangers to put the food on the table in their santuary - an abandoned house near the salt flats. It takes some time for Anna to open up to good natured Basim who always seem to have positive spin on any situation even though things are dire and people can be unfriendly. Laura Luchetti's lyrically lensed Twin Flower concerns a budding friendship between Basim (Kallil Kone), a teenage boy from Ivory Coast traveling by foot through Italy to find a better life in Nothern Europe and Anna (Anastasiya Bogach), a teen girl fleeing from Manfredi, a predatory man involved in human trafficking whom her father worked for.Īfter a harrowing experience, Anna loses her voice and becomes deeply mistrustful of any men. But Alba Rohrwacher continues to impress here with her physical comedic turn, compensating for the film's weaker points. Lucia's Grace touches upon environmental issues and the nation's anxiety of influx of refugees, but it doesn't quite go deeper in either directions. But this mother of god not only insistent, but is downright physical, pulling and knocking Lucia around into submission. And with the help of social media, she starts having worshipers following her around. People around her start noticing her erratic behavior- talking and fighting with herself (Holy Mother is invisible to others). Freaked out and fearful, she relocates to a friend's house and seeks out the help of a psychiatrist. To make matters worse, Lucia starts to seeing the vision of Virgin Mary telling her to stop the project and instead build the church on the same spot. Lucia (Alba Rohrwacher) is a young single mom struggling with life - her relationship with unfaithful Arturo is on the rocks, her fencing teenage daughter is growing up too fast, and her meticulousness is getting in the way as a land surveyor for Paolo, a local developer who wants her to rubber-stamp a big, opulent project on the hill. So without further a do, here are my 4 films preview of this year's Open Roads:
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The series also pays tribute to the late Bernardo Bertolucci (passed away last November) by screening his debut film La Commare Secca which he made when he was 21.
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Some of more notable film titles presenting this year are Loro starring Toni Servillo by Paolo Sorrentino ( The Great Beauty), Piranhas, the opening night selection, about the rise and fall of Naples' youth gangs, actress Valeria Gollino takes another great directing effort with Euforia and the great Alba Rohrwacher stars in a religious dramedy, Lucia's Grace. These new crop of films reflects diverse issues facing the country, embroiled in social and political upheaval (like in many other European countries are facing, but very Italian) - prevalence of the comorra (modern mafia), African immigration, satirical look at Bellusconi years and others. Film at Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà present the 19th edition of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, which will unfold from June 6-12.