Author: Cinema Made In Italy

Isabella Rossellini on ‘Conclave’ and How She Almost Didn’t Get ‘Death Becomes Her’ Role Because the Studio ‘Wanted Someone More Famous, More Established’

Despite a career with varying celebrated roles, Isabella Rossellini has never received an Academy Award nomination. This year, fans and critics alike are hoping that changes with her latest film, “Conclave.” At the Middleburg Film Festival, the iconic actress graced the grounds of the Salamander Resort to promote “Conclave,” directed by Edward Berger.

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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.

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First Trailer for Acclaimed Italian Film ‘Vermiglio’ Set in the Mountains

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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.

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European Film Awards Nominations: ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Substance,’ ‘The Room Next Door’ and More Up for Best Film

“Vermiglio” (Italy, France, Belgium) — feature film, directed by Maura Delpero, produced by Francesca Andreoli, Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli, Santiago Fondevila Sancet and Delpero

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‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig,’ ‘Room Next Door’ Lead European Film Award Nominations

Italy’s Oscar submission and Venice Golden Lion runner-up “Vermiglio” shows up also in the European Film and European Director (for Maura Delpero).

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European Film Awards: ‘Emilia Pérez’, ‘The Room Next Door’ Lead Nominations

A slew of films clinched two nominations including Maura Delpero’s Italian Oscar entry Vermiglio, Halfdan Ullmann Tondel’s Norwegian Oscar entry Armand as well as Andrea Arnold’s Bird and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance.

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VERMIGLIO: Maura Delpero’s Final Study of a Remote Italian Alpine Village at the End of World War II

Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 11/4/24 – On Sunday, October 26, at the AFI FEST 2024 was a screening of Vermiglio – a 2024 Italian drama film written and directed by Maura Delpero. The story takes place in 1944, in Vermiglio, a remote mountain village in Italy up in the Dolomites. Maura Delpero’s new film was a richly deserving winner of the Grand Jury prize at the Venice film festival this year and it has been designated as the Italian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. It is a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in the wartime Italian countryside, in the manner of Ermanno Olmi or the Taviani brothers. It is wonderfully acted with unaffected naturalism by its cast of professionals and newcomers and plays on the audience’s heartstrings. This is Italian director Maura Delpero’s follow-up to her Maternal (2019).

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AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Vermiglio is set in the eponymous alpine village during the waning days of WWII. Maura Delpero’s film, gorgeously shot by Leviathan cinematographer Mikhail Krichman, is a slow-moving fable that unfolds as a novelistic series of pastoral tableaus. The short chapters evoke Balzacian poetic realism and recall the sensual textures of last year’s The Taste of Things. But unlike that film, which exuded autumnal warmth and celebrated pleasure––therefore freedom––Vermiglio‘s stark, wintery beauty comes at the price of its characters’ desires. The painterly frames physically constrain subjects, especially women who suffer pointedly under the social restrictions of this time and place.

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‘Anora,’ ‘Babygirl,’ ‘Challengers’ Among Top Gotham Awards Nominees — Full List

“We are proud to announce the nominees for The Gothams, selected by nominating committees who bring their independent perspective to the selection process. This year’s nominations celebrate voices from across the globe, embodying the growing embrace of international cinema by audiences everywhere. We look forward to celebrating our nominees and our Gotham tributes in a few weeks,” said Gotham Film and Media Institute executive director Jeffrey Sharp.

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