Turin 2003

The Torino International Film Festival under its new directors Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan and Roberto Turigliatto organized a considerable competitive section and added highly interesting sidebars, dedicated, among others, to Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov, to William Friedkin, Joe Dante. A young Polish director, Lukasz Barczyk, got the Critics' Award for his debut "Changes" ("Przemiany").

Details of the FIPRESCI Prize

"Changes". Julian Hanich reviews the winner of the FIPRESCI Prize. "The most mature and intensive film in the Turin competition is a promise — a promise eloquently made by its young director. Lukasz Barczyk."
"Looney Tunes: Back in Action". "Classic movie fans could bathe forever in Joe Dante's fabulous flood of "in" jokes", writes Gerald Peary in his review of the film.
"Swimming Alone". This Argentinean debut talks of "a rebellion not towards an economical or a political system, much more against the incapacity of the new Argentine society to give existential answers, and to give them to the new generations." Francesco di Pace reviews the film.
"The End of the Animal Reign". Ayman Youssef reviews the French film awarded by the international jury.
Alexander Sokurov retrospective. It is often ignored that many of his films are reports on the death experience as a state of consciousness. Laszlo Kriston provides a speculative take on a less apparent and extremely enigmatic level of meaning of Sokurov’s movies which, he believes, not only talk about death but show death as a transient experience that leads away from the familiar physical world and takes us to terra incognita.

Dario Argento, Roberto Turigliatto, Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, William Friedkin

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