Circuito Cinema presents the first edition of “Cannes mon amour”, a film festival that brings the films of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival to theaters. From 17 to 27 July they will be screened simultaneously in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna and Florence in original subtitled version: Fallen leaves by Aki Kaurismäki (Jury Prize), Monster by Hirokazu Kore-eda (Plama for Best Screenplay), About dry grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Place for Best Actress to Merve Dizdar), Perfect days by Wim Wenders (Palma for Best Actor to Koji Yakusho), Jeanne Du Barry – the favorite of the king of Maïwenn (Opening film), the films in competition The old oak by Ken Loach, Youth (Spring) by Wang Bing, Asteroid City by Wes Anderson, May December by Todd Haynes and, finally, the documentary presented as a Special Screening at the festival, Anselm by Wim Wenders. Thanks to “Cannes mon amour” and the work of the institutions and sector operators, the films of the festival arrive for the first time in five cities and not only in Rome and Milan, as was the case in previous years. Appointment then in the cinemas Giulio Cesare and 4 Fontane in Rome, Anteo and Colosseum in Milan, Nazionale in Turin, Rialto in Bologna and Fiorella in Florence with “Cannes mon amour”.
The calendar and the complete list of theaters is available on www.circuitocinema.com
FALLEN LEAVES
di Aki Kaurismäki with Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Alina Tomnikov, Sakari Kuosmanen, Janne Hyytiäinen – durata 81′
For the fifth time in the Official Selection at Cannes, Kaurismäki continues to make his cinema ironic poetry on the world of the least. Ansa and Holappa meet by chance one night in Helsinki. The two have difficult lives marked by hardship and precariousness, but their meeting will be the beginning of a story that will help them to love again. Within the unmistakable style, between narrative minimalism, no sense and quotationism, Kaurismäki offers a thousand small epiphanies that tell the complexity of the world. The leaves fall, but that hope does not die. A hymn, anarchic and very free, to human resistance. Jury Prize Winner.
MONSTER
di Hirokazu Kore-Eda con Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata – durata 126′
After winning the Palme d’Or (A Family Affair) and the Jury Prize (Father and Son), Hirokazu Kore-eda is back in competition for the seventh time with yet another precious piece of his filmography. When her son Minato starts acting strange, Saori thinks it might be a teacher’s fault. But it is only the tip of the iceberg of a parable that will prove to be more stratified. Between Rashomian joints, Kore-eda builds a mosaic of real and presumed faults, of unsaid, of contemporary idiosyncrasies. Once again adolescence is the fertile ground to tell the crystalline nature of affections and their indissolubility with a delicacy that ranges from excruciating to poignant. Ethical, poetic and very human cinema enhanced by the soundtrack signed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Palma for Best Screenplay.
PERFECT DAYS
di Wim Wenders con Kôji Yakusho, Min Tanaka, Arisa Nakano, Tokio Emoto, Tomokazu Miura – durata 123′
Winner of the Palme d’Or for Paris, Texas and for Best Director with The Sky Over Berlin, Wim Wenders returns to Cannes with the story of Hirayama, a man who cleans Tokyo’s public toilets for work. Hiramaya loves to read, listen to rock music and take film photos, rejecting modern technology. A series of unexpected encounters, however, will reveal more of his past. Wim Wenders illuminates the little things and composes a moving reflection on the search for beauty in the world around us. Minimalist cinema but with amplified empathy that he discovers something new every time. The need for an enchantment that infects the viewer and gives the images an astonishing elegance. A political act. Pure cinematic grace. Palm for Best Actor to Koji Yakusho.
ABOUT DRY GRASSES
di Nuri Bilge Ceylan con Merve Dizdar, Deniz Celiloglu, Musab Ekici – durata 197′
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, already winner of two Grand Prix at Cannes (Uzak and Once upon a time in Anatolia) and a Palme d’Or (Winter Sleep) illuminates small solitudes in exile to tell the great contradictions of Turkish society. Samet is a young art teacher isolated in an Anatolian village who, after a series of events, loses hope of escaping the life he seems destined for, until he meets another young teacher. The chilling and ancestral power of the images marries the philosophical and Chekhovian depth of a story that nails man to his pettiness. In ideal and constant dialogue with his masters (Bresson, Tarkovskij, Antonioni), Celyan reflects on fundamental concepts such as good and evil, individualism and collectivism. Surgical, humanist, hypnotic cinema. Palma for Best Actress to Merve Dizdar.
JEANNE DU BARRY – THE RE’S FAVORITE
di e con Maïwenn e con Johnny Depp, Melvil Poupaud, Pierre Richard, Pascal Greggory, Benjamin Lavernhe – durata 116′
The return to the big screen of Johnny Depp, directed and supported by the French filmmaker Maïwenn, already winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes in 2011, for Polisse. Jeanne has humble origins but from an early age she is beautiful and brilliant. She dedicated to libertinism, she will thus arrive between the sheets of the King of France Louis XV and she will become his last favorite from 1768 to 1774, the year of the death of the Sovereign. The protagonists are magnetic and intriguing and paint, with irony, a sumptuous and disturbing fresco that hints at eighteenth-century painting with an authorial, modern and irreverent gaze. A majestic page of Cinema. Opening Movie.
THE OLD OAK
of Ken Loach with Dave Turner, April Marie, Claire Rodgerson, Trevor Fox – duration
After winning the Palme d’Or twice (The Wind That Shakes the Grass and Me, Daniel Blake) and the Jury Prize three times, Ken Loach returns with dogged consistency to film activism. The Old Oak is the last remaining pub in an English mining town, now the victim of abandonment by young people. The community will have to learn to live with the presence of Syrian refugees. After more than fifty years of career Loach, with screenwriter Paul Laverty at his side, continues to deeply probe reality, to observe iniquities to transform them into vibrant narrative material. Pure distillation of all his poetics, Ken Loach directs a film of contagious humanity that acknowledges a defeat but suggests an alternative path. In competition.
YOUTH (Spring)
di Wang Bing – durata 212′
It was from the Palme d’Or to Fahrenheit 9/11 that a documentary was not in competition at Cannes. Set in one of the poles of the Chinese textile industry, Youth tells of how thousands of kids from all provinces move to work. They are in their 20s, sleeping together, flirting, joking and arguing behind their sewing machines. Master of contemporary documentary, Wang Bing directs a monumental work that offers moments of touching intimacy. Tiny stories, all differently equal, which are tragically reproduced in series, as the logic of capital. An immersive viewing experience as a reminder that the working class, even when it goes to hell, lives, desires, dreams and blossoms like spring. In competition.
ASTEROID CITY
di Wes Anderson con Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Rupert Friend, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Maya Hawke – durata 104
A science fiction story conceived as a love story. 1950s, an astronomy conference is held in the imaginary desert town of Asteroid City. The convention draws several students and their parents, but their stories end up overlapping in unexpected ways. Wes Anderson’s dazzling authorship explodes in a disruptive fresco that combines various forms of art and exceptional performances. Mixing science fiction and westerns, Anderson also talks about a series of human fears, collective (the atomic bomb) and individual (loneliness), resulting in an intimate and personal film. The film is scored by award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat. In competition.
MAY DECEMBER
di Todd Haynes con Natalie Portman, Cory Michael Smith Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, Piper Curda – durata 113
The award-winning Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven, Carol) directs Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in a refined and whirlwind film that reflects on the impossibility of fully grasping the complexity of the human and its mystery. To prepare for her new role, a famous actress meets the woman she will play on screen, whose love life sparked the tabloid press and captivated the country 20 years earlier. Search for truth and artistic performance, seduction and voyeurism: Todd Heynes directs a vibrant and Bergmanian film that thrives on contrasts, pastel colors and butterflies destined to regress to caterpillars. Intelligence and humor at the service of a work that highlights a ruthless humanity. In competition.
ANSELM
by Wim Wenders with Anselm Kiefer – duration 93′
After Pina, Buena Vista Social Club and The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders returns to the documentary to pay homage to the work of Anselm Kiefer. “I have always been struck by the immense scope of his work touching on history, astronomy, philosophy, biology, physics and myths.” this is how Wim Wenders defines the work of the German painter and sculptor. Past and present intertwine to blur the line between film and painting, creating an immersive universe in which the viewer experiences the illusion of being inside places that become moving sets. A dazzling cinematic experience that sheds light on the life journey, inspirations and creative process of one of the greatest contemporary artists. Special screenings.