Published by Vanessa McMahon

Jul 11, 2010

An interviewer for the premier online filmfestival circuit news outlet (www.filmfestivals.com), Vanessa is a novel writer, screenwriter, documentary director and a film producer.

How Tasty Was My Little Italian?

Penso Un Sogno Cosi...

This dark drama with an ironic almost Caravaggio-esque twist at the end
calls to mind certain images-

Titus (1999) when the failed Roman would-be emperor served the
queen's sons to her on a plate- literally!;

Hannibal (2001), when Dr. Lecter eats the brain of his rival Ray
Liotta-ewe!; and, last but not least, an old

Brazilian movie about native Tupi anthropofagia, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971).

Why do such gory cannibalistic images come to mind in such a subtle
romantic drama? Well, you'll have

to watch this new fantastic film by Marco de Luca and stay to the end to
find out! It's a mystery!

-by Vanessa McMahon

On -A Dream Like That-

During a one-on-one interview with the cast of -Penso Un Sogno Cosi

(I Think a Dream Like That)- actors Paolo Stella and Marina Rocco

discuss their experience working with director Marco de Luca on this

film. First of all, as the film was made for a mere 9,000euros, they

explained that the payment for working on this film was passion and

passion only. They worked for the good of the film and their belief in

it, most days not even having enough for food. "One day", Marina laughed

while explaining, "we had one meat ball between the five of us! That's

how starving we were!" Paolo and Marina explained that apart from the

normal films and TV projects they work on, this one was refreshing

because they had no producers breathing down their neck on how to make

the film. In this, they were truly free to express themselves

creatively; hence, for them this was a true independent film. Watch this

film and you will detect another thing that makes it a true indie work;

there is a strange secret waiting at the end. Is it a dream? Is it

true?