Alberta (Luisa Ranieri) and Gabriella (Jasmine Trinca) are sisters. Together they run a highly regarded Fashion House that specialises in designing and creating costumes for the entertainment industry. When we meet them they have two distinct personalities. Alberta is stern and all business and Gabriella is quiet and almost withdrawn.

They are surrounded by a staff of colourful and idiosyncratic women. Each of these ladies have private lives that vary from good to the truly awful. As the film fills in the blanks and you get to know them, you also get invested in their plight and come to understand their actions.

When a large movie costume job arrives, it pushes the staff to their limit and the effects their private lives have on their ability to work. We find the sisters harbouring a tragic secret from their past, a staff member who deals with domestic abuse is a most straight forward manner and many other tales.

The most intoxicating aspect of Diamonds is how these characters and your knowledge of them and their lives is constantly changing. As these ladies and their lives come into sharper focus you can’t help but to be drawn in and make a connection and feel their acute sense of success and failure and the camaraderie that that fosters.
Rob Hudson

Diamonds Screenings in Brisbane
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Thursday 25th September 3:00pm
Saturday 27th September 12:40pm

Palace James St Cinema
Monday 29th September 3:15pm
Wednesday 1st October 7:45pm
Thursday 2nd October 12:50pm
Thursday 9th October 8:10pm
Sunday 12th October 10:10am
Wednesday 15th OcOctobert 3:00pm
Sunday 19th October 5:45pm
Tuesday 21st October 11:00am

2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival runs in Brisbane from 24 September – 22 October, and will take place at the Palace James Street and Palace Barracks cinemas. Click here for more information about the festival, or head to the official website for more information and to book your tickets!
www.italianfilmfestival.com.au

From the outside looking in, Alessandro (Edoardo Leo) and Arturo (Stefano Accorsi) are the perfect couple, but the cracks are starting to appear. When a former muse, Annamaria (Jasmine Trinca), and her two young children arrive unbeknownst to Alessandro, it shifts the couple’s dynamic in a major way. When the truth behind her visit becomes known, it shifts things into overdrive.

Every family has its secrets and Annamaria’s upbringing was rife with trying times and dark realities. When circumstances dictate her children living with her mother, the darkness comes into sharp focus. This forces Alessandro and Arturo to get over themselves and unite in a common cause. It’s a slow burn circumstance that flashes bright with sinister overtones and energy.

The Goddess of Fortune is screening as a special presentation at the ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Brisbane screening times listed below:

PALACE BARRACKS
Friday 2, October 7:30 PM
Wednesday 7, October 4:00 PM
Sunday 11, October 4:40 PM
Thursday 15, October 2:30 PM
Friday 16, October 11:00 AM
Sunday 18, October 1:00 PM

PALACE JAMES ST
Saturday 3, October 11:00 AM
Sunday 4, October 2:00 PM
Thursday 8, October 7:30 PM
Friday 9, October 4:30 PM
Saturday 10, October 4:30 PM
Tuesday 13, October 11:00 AM
Saturday 17, October 7:30 PM

For more information and screening details about this great film festival head to www.italianfilmfestival.com.au

Standing in for Neeson this time out is the now craggy faced Sean Penn, who looks like he spent considerable time in the gym while preparing for this role. He plays Jim Terrier, an overseas mercenary with a dark secret and a love interest in Annie played by Italian actress Jasmine Trinca. Through circumstance they become separated but the tie of love warrants a future reconnection.

There are more notable moments of interest amongst the cast members like Javier Bardem sporting normal look hair or Idris Elba getting to test run the initials J.B. than there is in what is a very predictable script. The lack of discovery in the storyline is unsuccessfully remedied by a ramp up of excessive and graphic violence.

The Gunman does however have it moments. Little expense is spared with its overseas location shots so it looks great and the action scenes, while predictable are never less than exciting. When you add up all the pieces, you get a modern revenge scenario that will only become an institution with public support and this time out that seems a stretch.

Rob Hudson
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Standing in for Neeson this time out is the now craggy faced Sean Penn, who looks like he spent considerable time in the gym while preparing for this role. He plays Jim Terrier, an overseas mercenary with a dark secret and a love interest in Annie played by Italian actress Jasmine Trinca. Through circumstance they become separated but the tie of love warrants a future reconnection.

There are more notable moments of interest amongst the cast members like Javier Bardem sporting normal look hair or Idris Elba getting to test run the initials J.B. than there is in what is a very predictable script. The lack of discovery in the storyline is unsuccessfully remedied by a ramp up of excessive and graphic violence.

The Gunman does however have it moments. Little expense is spared with its overseas location shots so it looks great and the action scenes, while predictable are never less than exciting. When you add up all the pieces, you get a modern revenge scenario that will only become an institution with public support and this time out that seems a stretch.

Rob Hudson
www.thegunmanthefilm.com