Bayview Entertainment announced its first wave of April new-to-DVD release this past week.
Making its debut on Apr. 26 is Italian documentary filmmaker Cristiana Lucia Grilli’s Adriatic: The Sea That Unites, a fascinating look at the Molise area of Italy.
This is an area that is unique — neither Rome, nor Venice, or part of the booming northern region of Milan — sort of forgotten, but rich in history. Molise, in the south, borders on the Adriatic and has been a crossroads for cultural upheavals for the past 500 years.
The Turks (Ottoman Empire), the Croatians, the Albanians, all have, in their own ways, built the fabric of the area and its people. Customs, traditions … even the language is unique.
Grilli worked with scholars, musicians and local history researchers to stitch-together this unique film showing the history, the regions relationship to the Adriatic Sea and the nearby Balkan Peninsula that has contribution so much to the area’s rich tapestry of life.
Adriatic: The Sea That Unites is a part of a three-film promotion from Bayview Entertainment on Apr. 26 that focuses on filmmakers from Italy.
Also included in the mix is Italian filmmaker Igor Biddau’s biopic, Ride For Glory, which focuses on the life of the late Bianchi cycling team great, Valeriano Falsini (Riccardo Sati), who rose from obscurity on the backroads of Tuscany to become one of Italy’s premiere cyclists in the immediate post-war period.
Biddau blends in the story of Falsini’s rise to prominance, which was no small task in Italy in the 1950s, which had been ravaged by war and was still recovering, and Falsini’s relationship with his idol, Fausto Coppi (Roberto Caccavo), who was considered one of the greatest cyclists in Italian history.
Rounding out this three film promotion from Bayview Entertainment on Apr. 26 is writer/director Matteo Scarfò’s sci-fi thriller, Last Sun of the Night.
In a future Italy, society is in ruins and androids interview the devestated citizens to determine if they qualify for relocation to the “Safe Zones.” Such is the case of Carli (Andrea Lupia), an innoxuous bureaucrat, who is “interviewed” (a very creepy process), given refugee status and subsequently moved to Zone 13, which is nearly unoccupied. Safe Zone? Safe from what?
He shuffles around, tries to make the best of it, but over time he becomes numb to the world around him. Perhaps, just perhaps, Zone 13 is a prison. Interesting.
All three entries in this Apr. 26 promotion are presented in Italian with English subtitles.
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