written and directed by Francesca Fini, an art film about surviving
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Dicono di Ofelia non annega
“A great, great, great movie!” - Bob Wilson
“Un film originalissimo, direi unico, nel mescolare performance bellissime con il repertorio dell’istituto Luce facendolo sembrare quasi sperimentale.” - Adriano Aprà
“Un film incosciente e dalla voce altissima.” - Rossella Or
“Nei quadri del film, quasi delle slide, siamo costretti a confrontarci con il corpo di Ophelia; un corpo dipinto, esaltato, schiaffeggiato. Un corpo talmente materico, talmente immanente da trasformarsi nell’opposta rarefazione di una luce algida, fotografato senza ombre, una realtà astratta, bidimensionale.” - Igor Pulcini (BookCiak Magazine)
“Un film che, se da un lato sembra in alcuni momenti ricordare certe sequenze simbolico-performative del cinema di Alain Robbe-Grillet o mistico-oniriche di un Kenneth Anger e perfino di certo Bergman stilizzato anni ’60, dall’altro nella sua trama visuale basata sul continuo trapasso da documentari e cortometraggi altrui a una messa in scena lucidamente visionaria, si configura come un’opera fortemente originale.” - Bruno Di Marino
“Questo film è la dimostrazione che l’Archivio è malleabile, utilizzabile al di là di quello che si pensa, perché abbiamo 90 anni di storia audiovisiva e il fondo è stato sempre alimentato e continua ad esserlo. Francesca Fini l’ha usato in modo originale, divertente e musicale.” - Roberto Cicutto, Istituto Luce
“Francesca Fini ha una capacità straordinaria di creare immagini in un’assoluta autonomia linguistica, estetica, visuale e corporea. La scena della macchina da scrivere è una delle cose più belle che io abbia visto negli ultimi anni.” - Massimo Canevacci, antropologo
“L’azione di Francesca Fini è un’azione importante, che dialoga con una linea forte dell’arte contemporanea, soprattutto femminile, che è quella della body-art, in maniera coraggiosa e innovativa.” - Lorenzo Canova
“Nel film di Francesca Fini il conflitto di genere è reso esplicito, ma lo scopo ultimo è superarlo: nella visione poetica dell’artista, Ofelia prende dimestichezza con l’acqua e invece di annegare impara a fluire in essa, consapevolmente, aprendo nuovi occhi alla vita, in una natura finalmente benigna.” - Lucilla Colonna (Taxi Drivers)
“Sono rimasto vigile per tutti i 90 minuti, volentieri, provando un senso di impalpabile ammirazione per le varie incarnazioni dell’eroina shakespeariana che alla fine sceglie di sopravvivere, appunto di non annegare. Al cinema, sia pure in una chiave alquanto diversa, l’aveva fatto con Bob Dylan il regista americano Todd Haynes, in una strano film intitolato: Io non sono qui.” - Michele Anselmi
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A very nice review of the movie on Italian magazine TaxiDrivers
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The very precious gift of a young artist who is fan of the movie
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Sabato 2 dicembre, a partire dalle 19.30 al Teatro dei Dioscuri di Roma, proiezione del film “Ofelia non annega”, di Francesca Fini. Seguirà performance, aperitivo e talk sul rapporto del film con il femminismo e gli scottanti temi di attualità. https://www.facebook.com/events/1857897804520644/
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22/11/2017 Happening for the projection of the movie @MUSEO MACRO in Rome, for #FUORINORMA Festival
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Sabato 2 dicembre, a partire dalle 19.30 al Teatro dei Dioscuri di Roma, proiezione del film "Ofelia non annega", di Francesca Fini. Seguirà performance, aperitivo e talk sul rapporto del film con il femminismo e gli scottanti temi di attualità. https://www.facebook.com/events/1857897804520644/
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6/11/2017 Happening for the projection of the movie @CASA DEL CINEMA in Rome, for #FUORINORMA Festival
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OFELIA DID NOT DROWN, the dates at #FUORINORMA Festival in Rome
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Adriano Aprà launches the crowdfunding for the project #Fuorinorma - the neo-experimental way of Italian Cinema. FUORINORMA is a project proposed by Adriano Aprà and co-ordinated by Fuorinorma Cultural Association, together with the movie theatres, institutions and scholars who have since shared it or will join.This project is born out of the awareness that in recent years there has been a tendency in Italy, which we call neo-experimental, both in the film of fiction and in the documentary, towards a renewal of expressive forms that finally align Italian cinema with the most advanced research in the world.At the same time, many independent movie theatres have sprung up in Rome and throughout Italy, that are interested in projecting works often marginalized by the industrial system.We therefore thought of promoting some of these works, bringing together many movie theatres in Rome and proposing them to project these movies under the "Fuorinorma" label. In Rome, the chosen period will be from 26 October to 20 December: each film will be presented about six or seven times in the different theatres, in the presence of the authors, collaborators and critics. So it will be a good diffusion.The theatres that have joined so far are:Azzurro Scipioni, Apollo 11, Cinema dei Piccoli, Teatro Flavio, Teatro dei Dioscuri, La Camera Verde, Off Off Theatre, Palladium, Detour, Kino, MACRO, Casa del Cinema, Trevi, sette sale delle Biblioteche di Roma.Other spaces we are in contact with: MAXXI, Nuovo Aquila, Farnese, Teatro Tor Bella Monaca. Only six of these works are fiction films, the others are "unidentifiable visual objects":Flòr da Baixa (2006) by Mauro Santini, Tramas (2007) by Augusto Contento, Valzer (2007) by Salvatore Maira, Puccini e la fanciulla (2008) by Paolo Benvenuti, Storia di una donna amata e di un assassino gentile (2007-2009) by Luigi Faccini, La bocca del lupo (2009) by Pietro Marcello, Terramatta; (2012) by Costanza Quatriglio, Su Re (2012) by Giovanni Columbu, Bellas mariposas(2012) by Salvatore Mereu, Il viaggio della signorina Vila (2012) by Elisabetta Sgarbi, Sangue(2013) by Pippo Delbono, Abacuc (2014) by Luca Ferri, N-capace (2014) by Eleonora Danco, Terra(2015) by Marco De Angelis and Antonio Di Trapani, Montedoro (2015) by Antonello Faretta, Per amor vostro (2015) by Giuseppe Gaudino, Ofelia non annega (2016) by Francesca Fini, Spira mirabilis (2016) by Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti, Lepanto – Último cangaceiro (2016) by Enrico Masi, La natura delle cose (2016) by Laura Viezzoli. It is no longer a matter of praising the marginal. It is to be noted that this large number of feature films - to which it would be appropriate to add short films - indicate a tendency (if not a "movement", because each one of the authors continues to work on its own), which has emerged especially in the last decade.Forty titles have been identified and selected, which will be presented in subsequent editions of the Festival. And many mani others. We are ready for 2018. SUPPORT THIS INITIATIVE. JOIN OUR CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN. HELP TO SPREAD THIS TREND OF THE NEW ITALIAN CINEMA. THANK YOU! https://www.produzionidalbasso.com/project/fuorinorma-la-via-neosperimentale-del-cinema-italiano/
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Special projection of "Ophelia did not drown", for the opening of Fonlad Festival in Coimbra
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Ofelia non annega among the 20 Italian films selected by celebrated critic Adriano Aprà to launch FUORI NORMA, a new project to promote Italian neo-experimental cinema. Fuori Norma, the neo-experimental way of Italian cinema (2006-2016). This project rises from the awareness that in recent years in Italy we are witnessing to a trend, that I call fuori norma (out of the norm) or neo-experimental, both in fiction films as well as in documentaries – or should I better say nonfiction films – towards a renewal of forms of expression that finally align the Italian cinema to the most advanced research in the field worldwide. Meanwhile in Rome, and elsewhere in the country, we have seen the birth of alternative movie theaters interested in projecting works often marginalized by the industrial system. We have therefore decided to coordinate these authors and promote their works, too often disregarded, bringing together (for the moment) some Roman movie theaters and proposing them to project these works within the "fuorinorma" project. On February 10, at the "Casa del Cinema", we held a meeting with representatives of most of these theaters, which have shared the project and have stated their willingness to make it happen. All authors involved were enthusiastic of the project. They gathered in Rome to discuss and meet on 5 March 2017 at the "Casa del Cinema". The event is scheduled for the second half of September and the first of October.
Adriano Aprà Visit FUORINORMA Facebook page to know more about the project!
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“Ophelia did not drown” among the best 10 movies of the year inspired by literary characters, according to film magazine BookCiak.
link: http://www.bookciakmagazine.it/10-film-letterari-piu-belli-del-2016/
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“Ophelia did not drown” nominated among the best movies of the year, on the “Alias” culture section of “Il Manifesto” newspaper.
link: http://ilmanifesto.info/top-ten-film-2016/ (to log in you must register)
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December 16 "Ophelia did not drown" will be presented as an absolute première in Venice. The screening will be hosted by "La Fabbrica del Vedere", curated by Carlo Montanaro and Elisabetta Di Sopra. For more information: http://www.fabbricadelvedere.it/
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Interview for the tabloid Just Cinema, at American Film Market 2016
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