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‘Vermiglio’ Writer-Director Maura Delpero Discusses Her Stunning Film: Italy’s Oscar Entry [VIDEO]
At this year’s Venice Film Festival Maura Delpero’s exquisite film, Vermiglio, won four awards including the Grand Jury Prize.
‘Vermiglio’ Trailer: A Small Italian Village Is Shaken By War In Maura Delpero’s Oscar Contender
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first official look at Vermiglio, the second feature from Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero.
Written and directed by Delpero, the pic, a portrait of a sprawling family, takes its title from a mountain village in the Italian Alps, which was home to the director’s family for generations.
The drama opens in the village in 1944. Largely cut off from the war across Europe, the arrival of a deserted soldier disrupts the life of the village teacher and his family as the eldest daughter falls for him, leading to an unexpected turn of fate.
View the trailer here
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Vermiglio
Directed and written by Maura Delpero.
In select US theaters December 25.
Janus Films and Sideshow Films
On first blush, the titular quaint mountainside Italian town in Vermiglio is untouched by the outside world. There is a second World War raging, but as one character says, German soldiers haven’t been around lately. There are two Italian servicemen, however, who are hiding out in a disused shed. One is a native son of the town; the other, a dashing yet quiet Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico), hails from Sicily. Of the two deserters, it’s the latter who catches the adoring eye of Lucia (Martina Scrinzi), the eldest daughter of the town’s learned but regressive and repressive teacher Cesare (Tommaso Ragno).
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Model, actor and animal behaviorist Isabella Rossellini has no regrets. At the golden age of 72, the child of actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini has learned her fair share of lessons during her five decades-long career. Now, in Edward Berger’s papal whodunnit Conclave, Rossellini transfers that resilience to Sister Agnes, a primarily …
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‘The Leopard’: Netflix Drops Teaser Trailer For Italian Period Drama
It’s one of Netflix’s biggest bets for 2025 and now it has a teaser trailer.
Italian period drama The Leopard will be a six-part drama based on the the novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa about the Prince of Salina’s realisation his family is in danger as Italy moves towards unification and the old aristocracy is threatened.
“You are all safe here,” the Prince of Salina Don Fabrizio Corbera tells his family and friends during the trailer. However, his face betrays his fear that’s not true.
VERMIGLIO looks at a 20th century village coming to terms with women’s autonomy
A small mountain village called Vermiglio is far enough from World War II to not feel its effects, but war eventually is carried back to the village. Quite literally, as Pietro (Giueseppe De Domenico), a Sicilian, carries an injured Attilio all the way back home to Vermiglio to help save his life. Pietro’s arrival spurns changes and peels back the many layers of a village that is stuck in time. War, misogyny, and prejudice are all shackles that determine the fate of the people in this village. The film examines one of the bigger families in the village, but specifically three girls in this family that all are trying to find their own fortune in a world full of small, narrow chances.
