Projects matching: Uberto Pasolini

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After 20 years away Odysseus decides to come back. The King has finally returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
A new adaptation of Homer’s classic ‘The Odyssey’.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025

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Inspired by true events, NOWHERE SPECIAL features James Norton as thirty-five-year-old window cleaner John, who has dedicated his life to bringing up his son, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for his three-year-old son, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2020 - Orizzonti

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Still Life is a poignant, quixotic tale of life, love and the afterlife. Meticulous and organized to the point of obsession, John May is a council worker charged with finding the next of kin of those who have died alone. When his department is downsized, John must up his efforts on his final case, taking him on a liberating journey that allows him to start living life at last.

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Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy, who travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

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The Emperor's New Clothes tells the little-known story of Napoleon Bonaparte's comeback. It relates to the hitherto untold, funny and romantic tale of the diminutive world conqueror's secret return to France from exile, in disguise, to reclaim his throne and his imperial glory.

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Uberto Pasolini knows a thing or two about taking a punt on first-time writers and directors. The Full Monty, which he produced, came from nowhere to become an international hit and put Peter Cattaneo and Simon Beaufoy on the film-making map. Now, he has backed another couple of newcomers: writer William Ivory and director Aileen Ritchie.

The Closer You Get is set in a village on Ireland's north-west coast where the birth rate is falling and the men are getting twitchy because of a lack of single young women. A group of bachelors, led by Ian Hart, take the matter into their own hands and place an ad in the Miami Herald calling for female companions. However, the local women get wind of the plan.

The film was inspired by an article Pasolini read about a village in Spain, where the men regularly advertise for women in the Barcelona press. He recognised the potential of another film "about foolish men and strong women. I became interested in how the relationships between people in a small community would be affected by the notion of a fresh intake of women."

For Ivory, it was a chance to explore small, working-class rural communities:

"I wanted something that reflected that kind of humour, where people know each other's business. It can be both supportive and really annoying."

Shot in Donegal, the film premiered at Locarno in July and will open in UK in the autumn.

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" . . . and Brooklyn ain't in London!" Somewhere in deepest West London, we find a group of British-Indian boys leaving school on a typical Friday afternoon. Parading through the crowds of the High Street, their Hip-hop influenced street-style fashion, language and attitude are in full display.