{"id":2444,"date":"2011-03-08T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2011-03-08T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T13:51:37","slug":"il-gioiellini-by-andrea-molaioli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/il-gioiellini-by-andrea-molaioli\/","title":{"rendered":"Il Gioiellini by Andrea Molaioli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, Andrea Molaioli, a director who had graduated from being assistant director to Nanni Moretti and others, made one of the best Italian films of recent time, <strong>La ragazza del lago<\/strong>, an existential mystery featuring Toni Servillo.\u00a0 After that, though, everything went ominously quiet; like much of the Italian film industry, in fact, which seems to have settled back into producing a treadmill of comedies and sentimental dramas over the last year or two.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Molaioli is back with <strong>Il Gioiellini<\/strong>, which has just been released to Italian cinemas.\u00a0 A political film, it tells a story revolving around the notorious bankruptcy of Parmalat, a huge agri-food business which went bust thanks to a mixture of nepotism, mismanagement and external business forces&#8230; much like most of Europe in the years leading up to the global recession.\u00a0 Not much more information has filtered through as yet.\u00a0 Toni Servillo, inevitably, is the lead &#8211; the guy seems to appear in about ten movies a year at the moment &#8211; and the reviews seem to be broadly positive.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see whether this one comes out in English anywhere.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the (Italian) trailer:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h5Zc8VmBcso?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h5Zc8VmBcso?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, Andrea Molaioli, a director who had graduated from being assistant director to Nanni Moretti and others, made one of the best Italian films of recent time, La ragazza del lago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[22,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444"}],"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=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}