Quality Cinema and Collaboration Space

collaboration space: He said the forum, supported by Venice Days and Xinhua, an event at the film festival aiming to draw attention to high quality cinema, looked "extremely interesting" to him. "Italy and China are trying to deepen their collaboration in the cinema field, and therefore I wanted to participate in this forum," he said. "I myself made a little work some years ago in Beijing and it was a wonderful experience," he added, according to Xinhua China. Tornatore wished collaboration between the two countries will be further enhanced, because "the Italian cinema has an important history, but the Chinese one is extraordinary and is going through a period of great force and energy, thus it would be beautiful to find new collaboration space." He noted there are not many other countries in the world in which new cinema theaters are continuously opening. "Usually what happens is the contrary, therefore for cinema lovers like me China today looks like a wonderland, with countless audiences and thousands of cinema theaters and a really important market strength," he pointed out. "Therefore we have many things to learn from China and likely also many things to teach to China, in fact I believe the Italian and Chinese have several points of mutual attraction," Tornatore went on saying. Tornatore, Oscar winner for best foreign language film in 1990 for his film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso , told Xinhua in an interview that he is interested in collaborating with China cinema. "Though nothing concrete has been decided yet, there are ongoing talks," he said. The director told Xinhua he was particularly hit by the "spectacular nature" and capacity of Chinese cinema to give films the "expressiveness" they need. "Chinese directors manage to be spectacular when they tell spectacular stories and manage to be minimalist when they tell minimalist stories. He also noted that Chinese films are very much linked to their home country culture. "Even when they are fantasy films, you can feel there are always the roots of Chinese history and culture below them, which is a very important characteristic of Chinese cinema that makes it very recognizable, very personal," he explained. That is to say that they manage to do films in the way films need to be, differently from less rich cinema industries where you feel that films are somehow forced to be a little different from their nature," he underlined. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.