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The Forbidden City
(La città proibita)
Gabriele Mainetti
- 2025
- Italia
- Action
- 2h18mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
French premiere
In Rome a young Chinese woman frantically searches for her sister. She meets the son of a debt-ridden restaurant owner, who is also worried and waiting for his missing father. These two souls, set apart by language and temperament, will learn to know each other and unite to fight the criminal underworld.
After the magnificent Jeeg Robot (Nouveau Genre Grand Prize at the 2016 Étrange Festival) and Freaks Out, Gabriele Mainetti confirms that he is, along with Stefano Sollima, among the only directors capable of resurrecting popular cinema in Italy. With Hong Kong cinema as an anchor point, he plays with archetypes and subverts them, without ever denying Italian cinema’s romantic amplitude, whether picaresque or intimate. Marinetti adds a social humanist point of view to this exemplary entertainment, as moving as its love story.
Screenings
02/09 • 18h45 • Screen 500
In the director's presence
03/09 • 16h00 • Screen 300
In the director's presence
Credits
- With : Yaxi Liu, Enrico Borello, Sabrina Ferilli, Marco Giallini, Luca Zingaretti...
- Screenplay : Stefano Bises, Davide Serino
- Photography : Paolo Carnera
- Editing : Francesco Di Stefano
- Music by : Fabio Amurri
- Production : Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Gangarossa, Sonia Rovai
