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Courmayeur Noir Film Festival 2009



Towards evening after a day out skiing at Courmayeur, the so named “vasca” is a habitué. Shopping, aperitif, wonder around the shops. The 19th Courmayeur Noir in Festival is also a must, for all the fans of cinema and literature.

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Five film awards, from the hot Messico of Welcome to Tijuana to the snowy cold of repression in Chechnya with Entre ours et loup. the frightening topicality of a massacre that becomes a game (Playing Columbine) and the massacre of Main basse sur l’Europe. At last the recent American politics traversed by the madness of The Killer Poet, told by Susan Gray, director of Citizen Berlusconi.

There are four highly anticipated film premieres. The funny catastrophes in 3D of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, from the children’s book by Judi Barrett; the Italian cartoon film Cuccioli – Il Codice di Marco Polo, presented in world premiere by director Sergio Manfio; the TV series Casper’s Scare School, presented by Cartoon Network and the fairytale Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book by Stefan Ruzowitzky.

Courmayeur Noir Film Festival

This year’s guests are: Oscar-winning author-screenwriter Diablo Cody with her new film, Jennifer’s Body, directed by Karyn Kusama and interpretated by the beautiful Megan Fox, Amanda Seyefred and Adam Brody. Renato Vallanzasca, author and protagonist of Carlo Bonini’s book-interview, Il Fiore del Male; Federico Zampaglione, musician (who will perform with his new group The Alvarius) and director (with his newest film, Shadow), Michael Caine, the wonderful star of Harry Brown, this year’s opening film; Leonardo Padura Fuentes (winner of the 2009 Raymond Chandler Award), Carlo Lucarelli and Giancarlo De Cataldo. These are just some of the guest at this years festival.

Loads of writers are also present. A lesson on contemporary noir will be held by James Sallis and the labyrinths of the psycho-thriller in the new novel by Sebastian Fitzek (The Child); and there will be also Matt Haig (The Dead Fathers Club) with the sophisticated mystery The Last Family in England. There will be Jonathan Rabb with his cinephile fresco of Fritz Lang’s Berlin (Shadow and Light); Carlo A. Martigli (999: L’Ultimo Custode), Tarquin Hall (The Case of the Missing Servant); the great Spanish tradition of Juan Madrid (Pajaro en Mano) and the rebels of the new Berlin narrated by Zoran Drvenkar in Sorry. There is also the fiction debut of Gianni Canova (Palpebre) and Marco Lombardi (I Nuovi Amici), a journey through the voices of “Sardinia in Noir” by Marcello Fois.

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