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Io Capitano: love overcomes hell
From the Venice Film Festival awards, comes a beautiful film ‘Io Capitano’ (The Captain) by Matteo Garrone: an account of the dramatic journey of two…
Author: Edoardo Zaccagnini
Cinema and writing as friends with whom to extract and release feelings. Love for both at La Sapienza, Literature. With them travelling through festivals, television experiences, interviews and reviews: for Close-up the first, then Cineforum, Cittanuova, l’Osservatore Romano, Romasette. As a lover and then as a freelance journalist, between family, two children, faith and experiences in social work. Asking my two friends to help me build goodness.
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Bergoglio, Lisbon and the love for cinema
Amongst the various cinematic initiatives of Lisbon 2023, there was an interesting review presented in the days before the WYD (28/31st of July) on the…
Empathy and fear, the present and human nature: interview with director Cristian Mungiu | Part 2
“R.M.N” (“Wild Animals”), his last film, is set in a small country of Transylvania, where the balance of the local community (made up of different…
Empathy and fear, the present and human nature: interview with director Cristian Mungiu | Part 1
“R.M.N” (“Wild Animals”), his last film, is set in a small country of Transylvania, where the balance of the local community (made up of different…
Myself and the other
Two very different stories but the same journey towards love of the other. One, a TV drama series – ‘A Small Light’ ; the other…
Fragility and greatness: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
A conversation, profound and enlightening, with Monsignor Follo and Fr Francois Marie Lethel on the importance and modernity of the French saint, celebrated by UNESCO…
Love and time
Two very different films, one Chinese, the other Italian, remind us that true love has the power to overcome the most difficult circumstances, but love…
The treasure of the world
A walk through Umberto Eco’s extraordinary personal library, that becomes a journey in the thoughts of this philosopher and writer and a consideration on the…
Distant lights
‘Trieste is Beautiful at Night’, a moving documentary portraying the hopes and dreams, hardship, exhaustion and fear of Asian migrants along the Balkan route. In…
Poetry against war
A film about war made of poetry: the power of imagination and the interior strength of the youth (and of the women) against the atrocity…
By the hand of my brother
A thought on the beauty and the great value of fraternity through two recent films and a TV series: Tori and Lokita by the Dardenne…
Virginio, Sisa and their “home”
It is a simple story, the one narrated in the movie “Utama – The forgotten lands”, and yet filled with significance: it is the story…