{"id":1014,"date":"2009-02-23T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T10:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2009-06-18T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T09:41:35","slug":"aspettando-il-sole-aka-waiting-for-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/aspettando-il-sole-aka-waiting-for-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspettando il sole aka Waiting for the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also out this week, Ago Panini’s, Waiting for the Sun<\/strong>, aka Aspettando il sole. This looks kind of interesting… and it has a great cast headed by Raoul Bava & Gabriel Garko. Panini made his name as a commercials director, and it’s his debut. Here’s the review from Cineuropa<\/a>…<\/p>\n

In this rather Hollywood-starved edition of the Rome International Film Festival, mostly Italian stars have walked down the red carpet. Monica Bellucci (The Man Who Loves [trailer]) and Christian De Sica (Parlami di Me) were followed today by the cast of the the feature debut by commercials director Ago Panini, Waiting for the Sun, a Special Event at the festival.<\/p>\n

The film has 15 main characters, whose actors are scrupulously listed in alphabetical order. There are all guests for a night at the Hotel Bellevue, a decrepit place on the outskirts of anwhere, Italy in 1982. There is the concierge (Giuseppe Cederna, winner of Best Actor at Annecy); a porn filmmaker; a thief hiding out after a robbery; those who suffer and contemplate revenge for love; failed erotic encounters; and plenty of secrets. And so forth, in a mosaic of stories that (hardly) ever intersect.<\/p>\n

The over-the-top, pulp tones belong to noir comedy yet the film struggles to find its rhythm, and not all the stories leave their mark. Of mostly top-name cast (including Raoul Bova, the only one who will not be present on the red carpet tonight), the strongest are the infallible Bebo Storti, a disillusioned porn director who speaks of love and cinema, and the surprising Gabriel Garko, who for once breaks from the routine of a television sex symbol to play a tenderly maladjusted criminal.<\/p>\n

Produced by laCasa in collaboration with Mikado Film, Waiting for the Sun was made for \u20ac7000,000. Panini’s upcoming project is a film on Death Row victim Derek Rocco Barnabei. The film is in the preparation phase and will be entitled Just’us<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Also out this week, Ago Panini’s, Waiting for the Sun, aka Aspettando il sole. This looks kind of interesting… and it has a great…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}