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‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Trailer: Paola Cortellesi’s Lauded Italian Dramedy Debuts Stateside
Writer/director/star Paola Cortellesi’s debut feature is among the highest grossing films of all time in Italy, and went on to win six Italian Academy Awards including Best Film.
Jane Campion Praises Italian Director Maura Delpero’s ‘Vermiglio’ in Open Letter as Oscar Voting Kicks Off: The Film ‘Put a Spell Over Me’ (EXCLUSIVE)
With Oscar voting starting today, double Oscar-winner Jane Campion is championing young Italian director Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio,” Italy’s contender in the international film category.
A war story taken from family lore, ‘Vermiglio’ involves an entire village
Inspiration comes in all forms. Sometimes it’s your imagination, sometimes it’s real-life experiences and, often, it’s a combination of both. Maura Delpero’s new drama “Vermiglio,” Italy’s shortlisted entry for the international film Oscar, was the latter. It came to her while she slept.
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Maura Delpero on “Vermiglio”
Few things are as common yet as earth-shattering as love and death. Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio” explores these core human experiences in all their thorny complexities. In this remote Italian village in the alps, where time seems suspended in air, they intermingle with human life as seamlessly as the townsfolk blend into the vastness of the mountains they inhabit.
Italy’s Oscar Submission Is the Year’s Most Beautiful Film
“Vermiglio” provides a window onto a bygone world that feels at once lost to time and intensely alive. You won’t see a more beautiful film this year.
Vermiglio Review
“Vermiglio,” about the lives of villagers in the mid-century Italian Alps near the end of World War II, is the rare movie set in the past that seems attuned to the consciousness of the time it depicts.
With ‘Vermiglio,’ Maura Delpero Offers a Film Cut Through With High Regard: for the Characters and for the Audience
‘Vermiglio’ is a film of profound emotional gravity, an exegesis on family, faith, and circumstance that spares no one and yet doesn’t capitulate to despair.
‘Vermiglio’ Review: Remote Rites of Passage
During World War II, life changes for a family in a Northern Italian mountain village when a Sicilian stranger arrives.
Vermiglio
An old tagline goes, “If you want to capture someone’s attention, whisper.” Director Maura Delpero’s World War II–era drama Vermiglio holds attention rapt with its silences. Grand themes of birth, death, destiny, and scandal play out against a hushed rural milieu of family, religion, and detailed domestic life. Outside, massive mountain ranges loom, hinting at a wider world and multitudes within. Delpero’s vision is intimate yet sweeping—the film is Italy’s deserving contender for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award.
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