The richness of diversity

After the traffic of Christmas films, the theaters open (and we really hope not to close anymore) with a series of proposals that happily present personal styles and themes and that reflect a variety that often the works produced by streaming platforms they have not, flattened as they are on works that must, by their nature, please a large and transnational audience of subscribers.

SPENCER BY PABLO LARRAIN
Christmas Eve in a castle on the outskirts of London where Lady Diana, in a troubled weekend, contemplates leaving the royal family. Here is an example of a far from passionate The Crown film about nearly a century of Windsor history: Larrain is an expert in blocking the lives of celebrities (widow Kennedy in a previous film) in pivotal moments in their lives to analyze their reactions in detail, like an entomologist in front of an insect.

A HERO OF ASGHAR FARHADI
After two imperfect international experiences, the Iranian director returns to his country to tell the story of Iranian society worn out by bureaucracy through the Kafkaesque vicissitudes of an ordinary man who from prison becomes a hero despite him.
Farhadi is a master in making the cases of conscience of his characters credible and interesting in a series of masterful "existential thrillers", among them A separation of 2011.

LATIN AMERICA BY DAMIANO AND FABIO D'INNOCENZO
The two brothers are creative directors in the strict sense of the term, like Garrone, Sorrentino and a few others in Italian cinema. In very personal films they are able to tell obscure and out of the ordinary characters that reflect aspects of our society that we do not want to investigate.
Still Elio Germano protagonist (as also in the previous Favolacce).
And for those who want to play it safe.…

THE KING'S MAN - THE ORIGINS OF MATTHEW VAUGHN
Third film in the series of the vicissitudes of secret agent Gary Unwin set in one of the darkest periods in European history struggling with the First World War. Amazing and spectacular adventures also filmed in Turin. A challenge for the Savoyard spectator in trying to be able to recognize the real locations.


Davide Bracco
NP January 2022