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December 2012

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To The STARS

SPENCER BARNES’ Ultimate Beauty Tips...

Remember Me, My Love

MONICA BELLUCCI –”Alessia” the mistress

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Exclusive Interview

Remember Me, My Love

“Remember Me, My Love” is writer/director Gabriele Muccino’s sensitive drama about the lives and loves of an Italian family.

Fabrizio Bentivoglio stars as the family’s matriarch, Carlo, a man who’s torn between his love for his wife, Guilia (Laura Morante) and a passionate affair with the beautiful Alessia (Monica Bellucci).

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The Movie of Love, Relatives and Friendship

by Ken Fox

Iandnfidelity, suspicion a debilitating

lack of self-worth push familial bonds to the breaking point in Italian director Gabriele Muccino’s frenetic, high-decibal drama. Though the Ristuccia family has all the trappings of yuppie stability and respectability, they’re “protagonists of a society aware of its own superficiality,” as one character describes the Roman uppermiddle class.

Beneath the surface, each member of the family is miserable in his or her own unique way. Patriarch Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) has grown tired of both his job and his high-strung wife, Giulia (Laura Morante), who shelved her dreams of acting for marriage, kids and a less satisfying career as a schoolteacher. Giulia’s shrill micro-management of the family’s affairs has numbed Carlo into an indifferent stupor, and although she’d probably never admit it, she, too, is unhappy and blames Carlo for her aborted career and a crippling lack of selfconfidence. Giulia would also be

loathe to admit that she’s come to resent her own 17-year-old daughter, Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff ), an aspiring pop tart who sees a spot as a dancer on the tacky game show “Ali Baba” as the first step toward superstardom.

Valentina’s 18-year-old brother, Paolo (Silvio Muccino, the director’s son), meanwhile, has none of his sister’s self-esteem; his general sense of worthlessness becomes critical when the girl with whom he’s fallen in love (Guilia Michelini) admits she doesn’t share his feelings. Over the course of the film, which is edited in rapid bursts more typical of an action movie than a family drama, each will face a life altering moment.

Paolo will attempt to distinguish himself from his peers by throwing

a enormous pot party to celebrate his 18th birthday; Valentina will stretch herself out on the casting coach in order to make her dreams a reality; and Giulia will swallow her fear and agree to audition for a play that’s due to open in just two weeks. Carlo, meanwhile, embarks on a romantic adventure with an old lover (Monica Bellucci) that could have serious consequences for them all. Muccino and co-writer Heidrun Schleef ’s script is filled with the kind of sad wisdom that comes with age, and the film is acted with maximum fidelity to the emotional ugliness of real life. If anything it sometimes feels a little too real, watching Carlo and Giulia go at it for two hours ... continue to pg 6 >

Scene from Rememeber Me, My Love (Left: Monica Bellucci as Alessia; Right: Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Carlo Ristuccia.)

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Exclusive Interview

Remember Me, My Love

“Remember Me, My Love” is writer/director Gabriele Muccino’s sensitive drama about the lives and loves of an Italian family.

Fabrizio Bentivoglio stars as the family’s matriarch, Carlo, a man who’s torn between his love for his wife, Guilia (Laura Morante) and a passionate affair with the beautiful Alessia (Monica Bellucci).

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The Movie of Love, Relatives and Friendship

by Ken Fox

Iandnfidelity, suspicion a debilitating

lack of self-worth push familial bonds to the breaking point in Italian director Gabriele Muccino’s frenetic, high-decibal drama. Though the Ristuccia family has all the trappings of yuppie stability and respectability, they’re “protagonists of a society aware of its own superficiality,” as one character describes the Roman uppermiddle class.

Beneath the surface, each member of the family is miserable in his or her own unique way. Patriarch Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) has grown tired of both his job and his high-strung wife, Giulia (Laura Morante), who shelved her dreams of acting for marriage, kids and a less satisfying career as a schoolteacher. Giulia’s shrill micro-management of the family’s affairs has numbed Carlo into an indifferent stupor, and although she’d probably never admit it, she, too, is unhappy and blames Carlo for her aborted career and a crippling lack of selfconfidence. Giulia would also be

loathe to admit that she’s come to resent her own 17-year-old daughter, Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff ), an aspiring pop tart who sees a spot as a dancer on the tacky game show “Ali Baba” as the first step toward superstardom.

Valentina’s 18-year-old brother, Paolo (Silvio Muccino, the director’s son), meanwhile, has none of his sister’s self-esteem; his general sense of worthlessness becomes critical when the girl with whom he’s fallen in love (Guilia Michelini) admits she doesn’t share his feelings. Over the course of the film, which is edited in rapid bursts more typical of an action movie than a family drama, each will face a life altering moment.

Paolo will attempt to distinguish himself from his peers by throwing

a enormous pot party to celebrate his 18th birthday; Valentina will stretch herself out on the casting coach in order to make her dreams a reality; and Giulia will swallow her fear and agree to audition for a play that’s due to open in just two weeks. Carlo, meanwhile, embarks on a romantic adventure with an old lover (Monica Bellucci) that could have serious consequences for them all. Muccino and co-writer Heidrun Schleef ’s script is filled with the kind of sad wisdom that comes with age, and the film is acted with maximum fidelity to the emotional ugliness of real life. If anything it sometimes feels a little too real, watching Carlo and Giulia go at it for two hours ... jump to pg 6 >

Scene from Rememeber Me, My Love (Left: Monica Bellucci as Alessia; Right: Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Carlo Ristuccia.)

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Monica Bellucci plays the beautiful mistress role Alessia in “Remember Me, My Love,” who in between of Carlo Ristuccia (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and his wife Guilia’s (Laura Morante). She shares her experience here...

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MONICA BELLUCCI –”Alessia” the mistress

By Rebecca Murray

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Was there ever any talk of having you play the wife instead of Alessia?

MONICA

“No, but you know what I like about Alessia? I like that in this atmosphere, an atmosphere that is very chaotic and very hysterical, she’s the only one who has both feet on the ground. And she’s in control, she’s very mature. She knows what she wants and that’s why I like her very much.”

Is it hard playing in such emotionally intense movies?

“Yes, because the film, in general, is full of emotions because there is a lot of passion all over. Every character is full of passion. And you see really well the Italian identity because we all yell a lot, which is typical of Italian people. We yell by phone and we yell all the time. The film is very simple. No special effects, it’s just a simple reality, every day life in Italy.”

Is that more difficult for you than the physical intensity of “Irreversible?”

continue from pg 2 > straight is like listening to the next-door neighbors fighting into the wee hours of the night. It’s alternately perversely fascinating and exhausting. Then there was another scene in the film that was very interesting, about the reality TV, and the desire to become famous for being famous, and how the TV gives today’s youth the possibility of doing this. Because, you see in the movie, there’s this young girl and she’s ready to do everything to become famous. And I think this is something that touches every country - America, Italy, France, England, all over. You will see all these people, they don’t know how to sing, they don’t know how to dance, and still they become famous.

You know, just celebrities. And I think this is a very dangerous process.

“Oh, it’s very refreshing. It’s refreshing because “Irreversible” was such a strong film and very intense.

To play just a simple woman who has simple problems in some ways- - okay, she has many problems because she gets divorced and she has two kids and she doesn’t love her husband anymore and, you know, there are problems, but compared to “Irreversible,” this is nothing. And “Irreversible” was really difficult shooting, but interesting, very interesting.”

Did you feel you had to go back to Europe after spending so much time in Hollywood?

Actually, it’s very funny because I work in Hollywood but I never stay in Hollywood. I don’t have a house. I just have my agent and when I come it’s just because they have to shoot. So, I don’t need to live in America to work in America. And I know that I’m very lucky to have the possibility to stay in Italy, to work with directors like Tornatore, Gabriele Muccino, and then come to France and work with Gaspar Noe who did “Irreversible” with me. And then come to America and work with directors like Mel Gibson or the Wachowski Brothers or Spike Lee and Terry Gilliam. I know that I’m very lucky.

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Fashion

A s a child, I loved painting and drawing. I begged my parents to enroll me in outside art classes.

Halloween was especially fun for me growing up, because it meant I could create monsters and creatures with makeup and costumes.

When I was a student, I loved working on student films, and regularly produced local commercials as part of my college film club. After seeing my first live stage performance, my interest in transformation and visual storytelling intensified - leading me to spend the next ten years immersed in acting in theatre, commercials, television and film.

The transformational tool of makeup was always key to completing any character and so it was always there, always a part of that world and it just made sense to me, though I never thought of it as a possible career at the time.

Even if you had told me during my last semester of film school that in just one year, I would be painting the faces of some of Hollywood’s biggest starlets, I would have laughed. After graduating and moving to Los Angeles from Utah everything changed, and things just took off.

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Makeup Artist To The STARS

SPENCER BARNES’ Ultimate Beauty Tips...

by Jenna Fordie

From Hollywood red carpets to the hit show House, Spencer Barnes has styled everyone from Zooey Deschanel to Olivia Wilde. He talks tips, tricks and trends for achieving great beauty finishes.

I have done many House promo shoots with Olivia, as well as numerous press interviews, red carpet events, editorial shoots, appearances, interviews, award shows and advertising campaigns.

Olivia is such a vibrant, smart, dynamic, and lovely person - not to mention drop-dead gorgeous - and I find it so compelling and fulfilling to explore and express facets of Olivia’s personality through makeup, giving visual radiance to

her soul. Sure, a talented makeup artist can do a lot for any face, but you can’t fake structure like hers.

In addition to the artistry, my job is to ensure that my clients feel confident, beautiful and ready to take on their work day. If I can help them relax, and get excited for work, while I help them put their best face forward, then I have succeeded... jump to pg 8 >

continue from pg 7 > I have loved the gorgeous bronze tones, luminous skin, sheer lip color, bright tropical tints for lips and cheeks, gray nail polish and pearlescent eyeshadow tones.

Though I love creating everything from red carpet looks, to fashion and the avant-garde, I am best known for my deceptively “clean beauty”.

Colour trends often vary based on what cosmetic companies are trying to pedal as the new “musthave” collections. But these often trickle down from fashion/runway trends and are influenced by pop culture and the media.

I’m guessing we will see currant, plums, burnished spice, smoky turquoise, velvet matte lips,

creamy looking metallic shadows some vibrant (more jewel toned) some smoky and rich-coloured yet sheer glosses. Various lip shades of holiday reds will certainly appear as well as sparkling glosses and liquid eyeliner.

Try picking one feature to take the focus and let others work to complement it. Maybe it’s a bold or sumptuous lip color paired with a clean, but defined eye. Or a dark, smoldering eye combined with a glossy pale-pink or nude lip. Perhaps it’s glowing, radiant skin with creamy cheeks and lips. There are so many possible combinations, but remember by focusing on one feature, it keeps the look simple, fun, wearable and uncomplicated.

season, but do you have any favourite colours and shades that you like to use in your looks?

I love dimensional colour. For the eyes I love champagne, peachynudes, taupe, charcoal, bronze, gold, amethyst, lilac, purples, olive, both iridescent/shimmer and matte shadows can be impactful.

Placement, shading, intensity and shape will also have a big impact on the finished vibe.

Bold, bright shades and smoky eyes have been big hits this

You work closely with the lovely Olivia Wilde on House series 7.

How do you achieve her eyes look?

Olivia’s eyes are definitely my favourite feature. I focus on her eye shape and often extend it out. Lashes are key for her for more glamorous looks, but her incredible pale greenish-blue eye colour gives rise to choosing shadows that either complement or contrast them. I love using bronzes, purples or charcoal tones - they really help her eyes

pop!

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