Welcome September and welcome back Milano Movie Week, the week dedicated to the seventh art that returns in 2020, after a very difficult period for the entire film industry. Many events and appointments from 14 to 20 September in Milan. More information and the complete calendar HERE.
We’ll be there too and, since we haven’t seen you in a while, we’re happy to invite you on Tuesday, September 15 with the Milan preview screening of Family Romance, LLC, the penultimate film by master Werner Herzog, in a double date at 8pm: 15 and at 22:15 at the summer arena set up in the garden of TRIENNALE Milano at Via Alemagna, 6.
The screening is part of the initiatives waiting for the 30th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival, scheduled for March 2020 and then postponed to spring 2021, due to the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 emergency.
In program at the Movie Week also events of the Milano Film Network, the network of festivals in Milan of which FESCAAAL is a founding partner and member, which will present two films supported by the industry activities of the network, presented and awarded at the Milano Industry Days by MFN. The protagonists will be two young authors, two successful case histories of Italian independent cinema: La strada per le montagne by Micol Roubini and L’apprendistato by Davide Maldi. The screenings will be held at Cinema Beltrade on Monday 14 and Thursday 17 September respectively.
For info on entry and how to participate: www.milanofilmnetwork.it
Family Romance, LLC: human relationships and social networks between reality and fiction
Family Romance, LLC Family Romance, LLC (USA, 2019 – 89′), the penultimate work of the great master of contemporary cinema Werner Herzog, filmed in Japan, already presented at Cannes 2019 and selected in the program of the 30th FESCAAAL in March 2020 that could not take place on the scheduled dates, is finally coming to Milan for the first time.
Reality, fiction and black humor come together in this documentary about Family Romance, a real-life Japanese company whose business is to provide family members and loved ones for rent for all eventualities. The protagonist is performer Yuichi Ishii, the company’s director, who is hired to play a wide variety of roles: the missing father of a 12-year-old girl, the paparazzo of a fame-seeking influencer or the sober parent of a bride on her wedding day. Love, affection and feelings become a business and are staged as in a theater, to meet the needs of an increasingly alienated and lonely society, made of appearances and marked by the negative effects of hypertechnologization in a country like Japan, among the most torn by the contrast between tradition and technological progress.