After discovering much support with The Academy when it involved craft classifications for his previous function Pinocchio, Italian supervisor Matteo Garrone has actually currently gained his initial Best International Attribute Movie election this year for his well-known migrant dramatization Io Capitano. In party, NYC’s Quad Cinema will certainly hold a retrospective labelled “The Great Garrone,” happening February 16-22, leading up to Cohen Media Team’s February 23 launch of his newest movie.
“A real son of Rome (and a favorite at Cannes, Berlin, and Venice), director and screenwriter Matteo Garrone carries the mantle of Italy’s neo realist and surrealist-fantasist traditions of cinema and lifts them into the 21st Century,” notesQuad Cinema “His accolade-laden filmography toes the lines of narrative, documentary, and fantasy exquisitely, bringing forth to the surface the depth of humanism and understanding through resonant human stories and an artist’s eye for fine detail. The Quad is thrilled to present this retrospective of Matteo Garrone, leading up to the theatrical release of his new, Academy Award-nominated film Io Capitano, opening on February 23.”
Ed Frankl stated in his testimonial of Io Capitano, “Matteo Garrone’s talent for weaving stories out of the fabric of real events––especially those involving desperate or violent people––gets another airing in Io Capitano, an engrossing, visceral portrait of one young man’s brutal journey from Senegal to the coast of Italy. The director won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2008 for Gomorrah, his defining, excoriating portrait of the Camorra crime syndicate, and he performed the trick again ten years later in Dogman, inspired by a gruesome gangland murder in Rome. He’s also had success in comedies (Reality) and fantasy (Tale of Tales), but his new film is an epic embracing the defining issue of Italian politics right now––the flow of refugees crossing the Mediterranean heading for Europe––making a potentially abstract, no-less-urgent topic tactile and approachable.”
Have a look at the retrospective schedule listed below.
The Embalmer (Matteo Garrone, 2002)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 2008)– Champion, Grand Prix (Matteo Garrone)– 2008 Cannes Movie Celebration
Truth (Matteo Garrone, 2012)– Champion, Grand Prix (Matteo Garrone)– 2008 Cannes Movie Celebration
Story of Stories (Matteo Garrone, 2015)
Dogman (Matteo Garrone, 2018)
Pinocchio (Matteo Garrone, 2021)
Io Capitano (Matteo Garrone, 2023)– opening up February 23, just in movie theaters
