TORONTO – Renato De Maria’s film is many things, a comedy, a heist, a romance, one that draws inspiration from various works, past and present while leaving nothing off the table in the effort to entertain. From the opening credits, a familiar percussive beat: the Rolling Stones’ “Paint it Black” covered in Italian by actress Matilda De Angelis, the film’s Femme Fatale. She glides onto the stage in a classy Cabaret Bar, a young singing starlet named Yvonne. Her long bouncy curls, coiffed in sleek waves has a touch of Rita Hayworth’s Gilda, minus the trademark hair flips. De Angelis actually sings the cover, with a mix of sultry and sombre, a foretelling of the character’s predicament.
TORONTO – Thousands of people in Western Canada displaced from their homes by the fires that threaten their communities: many warnings and evacuation orders in the last few hours. →
In the tradition of Greek Tragedy, “The Last Paradiso” enchants us with romantic images – in this case the Puglian countryside – and eventually leads the viewer through its sometimes-violent depictions of irreparable familial trauma. A Netflix-made film in association with Mediaset, “The Last Paradiso” stars Puglia native Riccardo Scamarcio, who also produced and co-wrote the film with Director Rocco Ricciardulli.
TORONTO – Canada continues to focus on electric vehicles. Over the past four years, more than $46 billion has been invested by manufacturers of automobiles, electric vehicle batteries and battery components across the country, with billions more in the pipeline. The figure is already huge, but continues to rise: today, in fact, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, announced the investment of approximately 1.6 billion dollars by Asahi Kasei Corporation for build an electric vehicle battery separation plant in Port Colborne, Ontario. →
VANCOUVER – The “XVIII Conference of Italian Researchers in the World”, which took place in Vancouver on 13 April, is now a book. →
