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DAMIEN MANIVEL — ISADORA’S CHILDREN

A triptych of contemporary stories set among a group of people alternately researching, rehearsing, performing, or witnessing MotherIsadora Duncan’s tribute to her dead daughter and son, drowned in the Seine—ISADORA’S CHILDREN won a Golden Leopard for Damien Manivel, its director, at Locarno last year.

The film’s cast includes Elsa Wolliaston, Agathe Bonitzer, Manon Carpentier, and Marika Rizzi.

A selection of the canceled Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2020 festival, ISADORA’S CHILDREN is screening free on Festival Scope.

See link below for details.

ISADORA’S CHILDREN

Free sign-in through April 16.

Damien Manival, Isadora’s Children (2019), from top: Elsa Wolliaston; Marika Rizzi (left) and Manon Carpentier; French poster, Jeonju Cinema Project; Agathe Bonitzer; Carpentier and Rizzi. Images courtesy and © the filmmaker, the dancers and actors, the photographers, and Jeonju Cinema Project.

GINEVRA ELKANN AND ALBA ROHRWACHER IN LOS ANGELES

A midweek highlight of this year’s Los Angeles Italia film festival: Writer-director Ginevra Elkann, actor Alba Rohrwacher, and co-writer Chiara Barzini will present their film MAGARI (IF ONLY), which opened last year’s Locarno Film Festival.

MAGARI (IF ONLY)

Wednesday, February 5, at 7:30 pm.

Chinese Theatre

6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Ginevra Elkann, Magari / If Only (2019), from top: Brett Gelman (far left), Oro de Commarque (girl at left), Riccardo Scamarcio (right), and Alba Rohrwacher (far right); de Commarque and Ettore Giustiniani; Magari, Italian film poster, with Milo Roussel (seated left rear); de Commarque and Luigi Catani; Elkann on set. Images courtesy and © the filmmaker, the actors, the photographers, and Wildside.