Youth Culture, Coming-of-Age Explored by Nordic Talents of Tomorrow at Haugesund

Coming-of-age films have been a mainstay in cinema for decades. By now, you would think that audiences have seen just about every iteration of the genre that features young people figuring out their lives through some sort of monumental event.

Coming-of-age films have been a mainstay in cinema for decades. By now, you would think that audiences have seen just about every iteration of the genre that features young people figuring out their lives through some sort of monumental event.

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health deteriorates. Meanwhile, Corey’s estranged father, Leonard, moves in with them to help care for Gloria.Corey and Leonard’s relationship quickly grows tense as it becomes clear to Corey that Leonard is not a good man and may even be dangerous.

With the flood of original content that seemingly never stops at Netflix, it’s hard to keep track of each and every series that arrives.

Directors mining their lives for a story is nothing new, but it’s always exciting to see that premise connect with viewers beyond its maker. Such were the audience reactions to Kenneth Branagh’s stirring revisit to the Belfast of his childhood: there were sobs, gasps, and so much laughter.

You could say writer/director/actor Kenneth Branagh has a facility easing between high and low art.

“I don’t like reality anymore. Reality is lousy,” teenager Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) says mournfully at a crucial, spiritually lonely moment in Paolo Sorrentino’s evocative new coming of age story, “The Hand Of God.” Sitting on a mountain, looking to the sky, the heavens, for answers, Fabietto should know.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticFabietto (Filippo Scotti), the autobiographical hero of Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” is a teenager growing up in the 1980s in the bustling port metropolis of Naples, and he keeps a watchful gaze on just about everything. He’s like the eye at the center of a storm of avidly impassioned but overstated filmmaking.

In movies as disparate and vividly imagined as Il Divo, Loro, the Oscar winning The Great Beauty, as well as English language efforts like This Must Be The Place, Youth, and his TV miniseries The Young Pope and The New Pope  Paolo Sorrentino has always seemed to be a director with a large brush and even more of a Fellini influence in some cases.

Guy Lodge Film CriticAcross cinema’s long lineage of stories about young women attempting to shake parental control and seize their own destinies, few protagonists have needed to escape quite as viscerally as Ada, the unbearably put-upon heroine of Russian director Kira Kovalenko’s imposing sophomore feature “Unclenching the Fists.” In poor health and kept under literal lock and key by her widowed, loveless father, she fears time is running out for her to make a run for it — though where on

Jessica Kiang Every generation rolls their eyes at the one after (who inevitably roll theirs back), but the striking thing about Dina Duma’s “Sisterhood,” which plants its eerily atmospheric growing-pains drama deep into Macedonian Gen-Z culture and lights it up with phone screens and insta posts, is how depressingly little the pressures of coming of age have changed.

Much of “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” is like its aspiring drag queen protagonist (Max Harwood), torn between the anxious modesty of inexperience and the bombast bursting at the seams. It’s frankly not a bad place to start, as what fuels the film is a flavor of sincerity that inexplicably, and for better, I think, generally doesn’t work beyond its means and place its audience in a headlock of earnestness.

Alexander Durie Discussions around increasing diversity and representation across the film industry have been multiplying in the past few years after global movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter spurred systemic change. Confronting these issues head-on was one of the main topics of discussion in Haugesund at this year’s Norwegian Intl.

Alexander Durie “The Man Who Sold His Skin” and “Coda” stood out among films which picked up awards at the closing ceremony of the 49th Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund. For the festival’s grand reopening to the international market, after a restricted 2020 edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, attendance surpassed pre-pandemic levels with an all-time-high number of industry accreditations for the event which ran Aug.

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorACE (American Cinema Editors) has launched its new International Partnership Program which allows for film editors in other countries to become members of ACE.The International Committee, led by long-time ACE members Edgar Burcksen, ACE and Michael Ornstein, ACE, in collaboration with ACE Executive Director Jenni McCormick have been working to expand the community of editors who live and work outside the United States and are members of an editing organization.