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Futura is an insightful portrait of Italy's young people today
Futura (2021)
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STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
Futura (12A)
Directed by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher
★★★
IN THE words of the great Whitney Houston “children are our future” and so in this ambitious film Italian youngsters voice how they see theirs, painting an insightful portrait of their country.
Three of Italy’s most acclaimed film-makers Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher teamed up to embark on a road trip fact-finding mission across Italy in early 2020 to interview a diverse cross section of young people between the ages of 15-20. They asked them “what is the future for you?”
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