Today’s Schedule for L.A. International Film Festival
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival opens today for two weeks at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas. Here is today’s schedule:
‘Mignon Has Come to Stay’
Italy - France, 1988, 94 min.
8:35 p.m.
The Italian-French mix here extends from cast and crew to story to characters: a large, messy, fertile Roman family coping with the cool little upper-class Parisian teen-ager, Mignon, invading them for a summer and ravishing the heart of 13-year-old Giorgio. Also the style: a blend of the better traditions of French and Italian family comedy (with Truffaut, Renoir, Monicelli and Visconti as obvious influences). There’s a warmly humane, almost maternal glow about this picture, perhaps only coincidentally because debuting director-co-writer Francesca Archibugi was pregnant with her first child during most of the shooting; it’s a lovable film. RECOMMENDED
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