The program of meetings during the nineteenth edition of the Rome Film Festival
Three Masterclasse with the public, protagonists of the Lifetime Achievement Award Viggo Mortensen, the writer Dennis Lehane and the actress Chiara Mastroianni.
Paso Doble return to the festival: dialogues will involve Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, Jerry Harrison e James Mockovski, Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo
In the Absolute Beginners section, Saverio Costanzo will retrace his cinematic debut with this film Private, Pardo d’Oro at Locarno.
The Rome Film Festival presents the program of its meetings at its nineteenth edition which will take place from 16 to 27 October at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone.
MASTERCLASS
Lifetime Achievement Award winner Viggo Mortensen will be the protagonist of a masterclass with the public on the occasion of the preview of his new film, The Dead Don’t Hurt, written, directed and performed by him. During the Masterclass, Viggo Mortensen he will talk about his second experience behind the camera (afterFalling)
and will retrace his extraordinary artistic journey, forty years of great interpretations that reveal his profound versatility and ability to immerse himself into complex, often ambiguous characters, showing their violent nature and fragile identity.
A long journey that starts from the mid-eighties, from the debut with Witness – by Peter Weir, Carlito’s Way by Brian De Palma and Portrait of a Lady by Jane Campion and continues in the 2000s, that brought him to international fame thanks to the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson and continues up to more recent years, with the titles that earned him an Oscar® nomination for best actor in 2008 for Eastern Promises by David Cronenberg, in 2017 for Captain Fantastic by Matt Ross and in 2019 for Green Book by Peter Farrelly.
The program of the masterclasses will continue with Dennis Lehane, one of the most beloved writers internationally, author of bestsellers which later became highly successful films: among these, “Mystic River”, brought to the cinema by Clint Eastwood; “Shutter Island”, translated to the big screen by Martin Scorsese; “Gone, Baby, Gone” and “Live by Night”, both adapted by Ben Affleck.
The protagonist of the third Masterclass will be Chiara Mastroianni, guest of the festival on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of her father, Marcello Mastroianni. After making her debut at a very young age in the film The Two of Us by Claude Lelouch, alongside her mother, Catherine Deneuve, the actress then received a nomination for the César Awards for her performance inMa saison préférée by André Téchiné and won the award for Best leading actress at the Cannes Film Festival for the film The Hotel of Lost Loves by Christophe Honoré. The long collaboration with the French director extends until 2024 with Marcello mio, also presented in Cannes, in which the actress decides to revive her father through herself, with an uncommon talent, incredible courage and irresistible irony
PASO DOBLE
Paso Doble is the section of the Festival dedicated to a dialogue between two authors.
The first meeting will involve two extraordinary personalities of the Mexican cinema, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. After sharing the Best Newcomer Actor award at the Venice Film Festival for Alfonso Cuarón’s film Y tu mamá también, founding the production and distribution companies Canana Films and La Corriente del Golfo, and establishing the Festival Ambulante Gira de documentales, childhood friends Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna are the stars of the series La Máquina, which will be presented at the festival in the Freestyle section.
The second Paso Doble will take place on the occasion of the screening of Stop Making Sense – 40th Anniversary, historic concert film about Talking Heads’ and signed by Oscar® winner Jonathan Demme. The festival will host the new 4K edition of the film: talking about it will be James Mockoski from American Zoetrope, who oversaw the restoration, and Jerry Harrison, guitarist for Talking Heads, curator of the remastering of the soundtrack.
The Paso Doble program will close with a meeting featuring Fabio and Damiano D’Innocenzo, award-winning authors of works such as La terra dell’abbastanza, Favolacce, and America Latina, all of which have been presented at major international festivals, and the TV miniseries Dostoevsky, which premiered at the last Berlinale.
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
This is the section in which an established author recounts the story of his or her debut in cinema and this year it will be hosted by Saverio Costanzo. The Roman director and screenwriter, one of the most important and original filmmakers of contemporary Italian cinema, will be at the Festival with his film Private (2004). Inspired by real events, the film recounts the military occupation of Palestine from the intimate and private perspective of a family forced to share its home with Israeli soldiers who have taken up residence on the second floor. A work without schematism, but with the rare ability to convey universal meaning and awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.