Non sarà facile per Paolo Virzì ed il suo “La Prima cosa bella“, riuscire ad entrare nella rosa dei cinque film che si contenderanno l‘Oscar alla migliore opera straniera. La concorrenza è agguerrita ed in gara ci sono ben 65 pellicole. L’Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, darà il suo verdetto il 25 gennaio. Poi, il 27 febbraio la serata delle premiazioni. Per quanto concerne l’Italia, oltre a Virzì c’è un’altra possibilità, quella offerta da La Pivellina, lo struggente film di Tizza Covi e Rainer Frimmel che però rappresenterà l’Austria. Tra le conoscenze del vasto pubblico, anche il thailandese Apichatpong Weerasethakul con “Lo zio Bonhomme…“, Palma d’oro a Cannes e da domani nelle sale italiane. Sempre da Cannes, dove ha ottenuto ampi consensi – e un posto nella cinquina potrebbe essere già suo – arriva Biutiful del messicano Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.
Di seguito l’elenco dei 65 film così come comunicati dall’Academy:
Albania, “East, West, East,” Gjergj Xhuvani, director;
Algeria, “Hors la Loi” (“Outside the Law”), Rachid Bouchareb, director;
Argentina, “Carancho,” Pablo Trapero, director;
Austria, “La Pivellina,” Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, directors;
Azerbaijan, “The Precinct,” Ilgar Safat, director;
Bangladesh, “Third Person Singular Number,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, director;
Belgio, “Illegal,” Olivier Masset-Depasse, director;
Bosnia – Herzegovina, “Circus Columbia,” Danis Tanovic, director;
Brasile, “Lula, the Son of Brazil,” Fabio Barreto, director;
Bulgaria, “Eastern Plays,” Kamen Kalev, director;
Canada, “Incendies,” Denis Villeneuve, director;
Cile, “The Life of Fish,” Matias Bize, director;
Cina, “Aftershock,” Feng Xiaogang, director;
Colombia, “Crab Trap,” Oscar Ruiz Navia, director;
Costa Rica, “Of Love and Other Demons,” Hilda Hidalgo, director;
Croazia, “The Blacks,” Goran Devic and Zvonimir Juric, directors;
Repubblica Ceca, “Kawasaki’s Rose,” Jan Hrebejk, director;
Danimarca, “In a Better World,” Susanne Bier, director;
Egitto, “Messages from the Sea,” Daoud Abdel Sayed, director;
Estonia, “The Temptation of St. Tony,” Veiko Ounpuu, director;
Etiopia, “The Athlete,” Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew, directors;
Finlandia, “Steam of Life,” Joonas Berghall and Mika Hotakainen, directors;
Francia, “Of Gods and Men,” Xavier Beauvois, director;
Georgia, “Street Days,” Levan Koguashvili, director;
Germania, “When We Leave,” Feo Aladag, director;
Grecia, “Dogtooth,” Yorgos Lanthimos, director;
Groenlandia, “Nuummioq,” Otto Rosing and Torben Bech, directors;
Hong Kong, “Echoes of the Rainbow,” Alex Law, director;
Ungheria, “Bibliotheque Pascal,” Szabolcs Hajdu, director;
Islanda, “Mamma Gogo,” Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, director;
India, “Peepli [Live],” Anusha Rizvi, director;
Indonesia, “How Funny (Our Country Is),” Deddy Mizwar, director;
Iran, “Farewell Baghdad,” Mehdi Naderi, director;
Iraq, “Son of Babylon,” Mohamed Al-Daradji, director;
Israele, “The Human Resources Manager,” Eran Riklis, director;
Italia, “La Prima Cosa Bella” (“The First Beautiful Thing”), Paolo Virzi, director;
Giappone “Confessions,” Tetsuya Nakashima, director;
Kazakhstan, “Strayed,” Akan Satayev, director;
Corea, “A Barefoot Dream,” Tae-kyun Kim, director;
Kyrgyzstan, “The Light Thief,” Aktan Arym Kubat, director; Lettonia, “Hong Kong Confidential,” Maris Martinsons, director;
Macedonia, “Mothers,” Milcho Manchevski, director;
Messico, “Biutiful,” Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, director;
Olanda, “Tirza,” Rudolf van den Berg, director;
Nicaragua, “La Yuma,” Florence Jaugey, director;
Norvegia, “The Angel,” Margreth Olin, director;
Peru, “Undertow” (“Contracorriente”), Javier Fuentes-Leon, director;
Filippine, “Noy,” Dondon S. Santos and Rodel Nacianceno, directors;
Polonia, “All That I Love,” Jacek Borcuch, director;
Portogallo, “To Die Like a Man,” Joao Pedro Rodrigues, director;
Porto Rico, “Miente” (“Lie”), Rafael Mercado, director;
Romania, “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle,” Florin Serban, director;
Russia, “The Edge,” Alexey Uchitel, director;
Serbia, “Besa,” Srdjan Karanovic, director;
Slovacchia, “Hranica” (“The Border”), Jaroslav Vojtek, director;
Slovenia, “9:06,” Igor Sterk, director;
Sud Africa, “Life, above All,” Oliver Schmitz, director; Spagna, “Tambien la Lluvia” (“Even the Rain”), Iciar Bollain, director;
Svezia, “Simple Simon,” Andreas Ohman, director;
Svizzera, “La Petite Chambre,” Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond, directors;
Taiwan, “Monga,” Chen-zer Niu, director;
Thailandia, “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul, director;
Turchia, “Bal” (“Honey”), Semih Kaplanoglu, director;
Uruguay, “La Vida Util,” Federico Veiroj, director;
Venezuela, “Hermano,” Marcel Rasquin, director.
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