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Festival coverage

Italian Film Festival

12 April – 25 April 2013

Back for another year with a great selection of new films, the Italian Film Festival includes the first work by Bernardo Bertolucci for ten years. There are features and documentaries that have made an impression at festivals around the world, plus a look back at one of the giants of Italian cinema, Roberto Rossellini.

The festival will visit Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, Dundee, Inverness and Belfast from the 12th to the 25th of April.

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Latest reviews

  • Pretty Butterflies
    Review preview for Pretty Butterflies

    Mereu's movie somersaults through genre and creates its own.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Two 12-year-old girls set out to spend the day at the beach.
  • Me And You
    Review preview for Me And You

    Everything here is meticulously planned yet the effect is of something effortless.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    An introverted teenager forges a bond with his step-sister as he hides out in his family's basement.
  • The Red And The Blue
    Review preview for The Red And The Blue

    The Red And The Blue is a real charmer despite moments of bleakness.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Bittersweet personal stories interconnect in a high school in Rome.
  • Dormant Beauty
    Review preview for Dormant Beauty

    Dormant Beauty expands beyond the central case to look at myriad issues around coma, caring, bereavement, euthanasia, suicide and choice.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Three stories explore Italian concerns in the context of a famous euthanasia case.
  • Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
    Review preview for Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

    The admiable moral distance that the film keeps from certain key events may leave viewer without pre-existing opinions stranded.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A police commissioner investigating a bombing uncovers shocking government secrets.
  • It Was The Son
    Review preview for It Was The Son

    Keeping us focused as the story meanders is Cipri's own elegant cinematography, which finds a poetry in the grimmest of places.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A dysfunctional family struggles to survive in a challenging environment, but might wealth make things even worse?
  • Journey To Italy
    Review preview for Journey To Italy

    Since the film so closely follows the couple, it is vital that we feel this sense of alienation and despair, and feel it we do.

    Caro Ness · 5 out of 5
    A seminal film about a marriage in crisis.

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