ROME – Great faces of international and national cinema and long-awaited stories arriving soon in cinemas. At the ‘Ciné – Riccione Cinema Days’ 01 Distribution presented the 2024/2025 price list. ‘Naples – New York’ by Gabriele Salvatores with Pierfrancesco Favino, Michele Placido’s new film ‘Eterno Visionario’ and Marco Tullio Giordana’s ‘La vita alongside’. And again ‘Fuori’ by Mario Martone with Valeria Golino, Matilda De Angelis and Elodie, ‘Sugar Bandits’ by Stefano Sollima with Will Smith, ‘Campo di castello ‘ by Gianni Amelio with Alessandro Borghi, ‘Il tempo che ci ci takes’ by Francesca Comencini, ‘Till the end’ by Gabriele Muccino, ‘In the Grey’ by Guy Ritchie with Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Cavill, and ‘Eden’ by Ron HowardwithJude Law, Ana De Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney and Daniel Brühl. These are some of the many new features illustrated byPaolo Del Brocco, CEO of Rai Cinema. “01 closed the first half of 2024 with a market share of 10%, an important figure that makes us confident about the future, also thanks to the list we are about to present, made up of solid films, with many works that go in depth and are characterized by high production quality”, declared Del Brocco. A list with a mix of Italian and international titles. “For this year the adjectives that I have chosen two: a precious and unique list. We aim, as always, to increase the level of production quality, an objective that Rai Cinema pursues thanks to the production pluralism and the virtuous collaborations it establishes, to offer cinema with narration. engaging, capable of telling the present through the eyes of great authors or with those of emerging directors and directors. This year – continued the CEO – there is a common element that binds our films, even if they are so different The story of the reality that surrounds us passes through history. Our history. In the 24/25 price list it is in fact possible to trace an imaginary time line that touches the proposed works one by one, starting from the Risorgimento up to the present day“.
For Del Brocco “it is no coincidence that in this historical moment, in some respects so uncertain, we feel the need to start again from the search for our own identity. Perhaps also for this reason the various authors, unconsciously coherent with each other, they have turned their gaze to the past to develop the story of more contemporary themes than ever which, in addition to entertaining, aim to stimulate the cultural engine of the country”. Cinema “anticipates or gathers the spirit of the time, and now we observe how the gaze of some of our authors feels the need to focus on our more or less recent history. In this list – continued Del Brocco – we find the echoes of this reflection, it will be interesting to observe how the public will respond From the expedition of the Thousand we arrive at the Great War, to then reach the 1930s with an Italian Nobel Prize, and then. to the immediate postwar period of the Second World War, we will go through a personal story of the 60s which closely concerns Italian cinema, we will travel through a part of the life of an iconic female figure of the 70s and 80s , up to themes such as female emancipation andthe right to be different in the 80s and 90s, and then finally arriving at themes close to the contemporary Mafia strong>”.
But many films “will also talk about love, told with different languages and genres ranging from comedy to drama, from crime up to even the most epic narrative, with the return of Ulysses to Ithaca from his love< /strong>. And finally, the great Christmas comedy cannot be missed (‘You and I must talk’, ed.) which sees the two comedic talents of Alessandro Siani and Leonardo Pieraccioni together for the first time.” , he concluded.
Also among the upcoming titles are: ‘Ballerina’ by Len Wiseman with Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves; ‘Iddu’ on Matteo Messina Denaro by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza with Toni Servillo and Elio Germano; ‘The Return’ by Uberto Pasolini with Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Claudio Santamaria; ‘L’Abbaglio’ by Roberto Andò by Toni Servillo, Salvo Ficarra and Valentino Picone; ‘Follemente’ by Paolo Genovese’; ‘Short love story’ by Ludovica Rampoldi with Pilar Fogliati, Adriano Giannini, Andrea Carpenzano and Valeria Golino;