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Vampiresses take a bite out of the Noir birthday cake |
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| 06/12/2010 |
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To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Courmayeur Noir in Festival kicks off with something for all those with a sweet tooth (spectators and vampires alike): a giant cake at Courmayeur’s Palanoir.
Then the chills and thrills get properly underway, with Dennis Gansel’s (The Wave) horror-romance We Are the Night. Recently released to success in Germany and hailed as the revelation of the year at the American Film Market in Los Angeles, the spectacular Constantin production set in a high-tech Berlin is the story of a fatal love affair between young Lena and an older vampiress, who runs a night-club with two beautiful and dangerous friends. After a string of mysterious murders, Lena crosses paths with a cop who, however, does not believe in the supernatural.
The other Competition film of opening day is Norwegian filmmaker Petter Moland’s A Somewhat Gentle Man, about a mild-mannered man with a lethal private vendetta.
Another much-anticipated highlight of the day is without a doubt Giorgio Faletti, in Courmayeur to speak about his new novel, Appunti di un venditore di donne, and to inaugurate Francesco Galli’s photography exhibit “Privacy – Ritratti segreti,” conceived by Marina Fabbri and dedicated to Italian noir writers.
The festival shows off its international flavor with yet another exhibit, entitled Rising Sun Noir, of the work of the students of Milan’s European Institute of Design and their Japanese peers from the Jikei Gakuen network of graphic design schools.
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