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‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ & ‘Io Capitano’ Lead Italy’s David Di Donatello Award Nominations
Italian actress and screenwriter Paola Cortellesi’s directorial feature debut, There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani), and Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano lead nominations at this year’s David Di Donatello Awards . There’s Still Tomorrow nabbed 19 noms, including best film while Io Capitano landed…
Paola Cortellesi’s ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ Leads Italy’s Donatello Awards Nominations
Her feature debut, which out-performed ‘Barbie’ at the Italian box office, earned 19 nominations at Italy’s answer to the Oscars, beating out Matteo Garrone’s Academy Award nominee ‘Io Capitano’ with 15.
‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ & ‘Io Capitano’ Lead Italy’s David Di Donatello Award Nominations
Italian actress and screenwriter Paola Cortellesi’s directorial feature debut, There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani), and Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano lead nominations at this year’s David Di Donatello Awards.
There’s Still Tomorrow nabbed 19 noms, including best film while Io Capitano landed 15, including best director for Garrone. Trailing the leading two is Alice Rohrwacher’s latest film, La Chimera, starring Josh O’Connor. Other leading films are Rapito (11), Comandante (10), Il Sol Dell’avvenire (7), and Adagio (5).
Marco Bellocchio’s Cannes Movie ‘Kidnapped’, About The Catholic Church’s Abduction Of Jewish Boy Edgardo Mortara, Sets U.S. Release Date
Cohen Media Group‘s well-received Cannes, TIFF and NYFF 2023 drama Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara is set to be released stateside on May 24.
The latest from respected Italian filmmaker Belloccio debuted in Competition at Cannes. It reconstructs the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the Papal state and forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th-Century Italy.
La Chimera’ is marvelous — right up to its most magical ending – NPR
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‘La Chimera’ Director Alice Rohrwacher and Isabella Rossellini on Excavating Italian Cinema (Exclusive)
The Italian writer and director Alice Rohrwacher’s fourth feature, La Chimera, is the story of an archeologist — known only as the Englishman in less reputable circles — with a penchant for plundering tombs and selling their buried treasures on the black market. In her filmmaking, Rohrwacher fancies herself something of an archeologist, too, albeit with less disturbing of the dead.
La Chimera Is the Perfect Kind of Film to Get Lost In
It’s rare these days to find yourself happily lost in a movie’s dream. We have plenty of allegedly fantastical pictures begging for our attentiveness: projects based on already existing gazillion-dollar intellectual properties, puzzle movies with complicated, outlandish plots, classy horror films that strive to remind us, as if we needed reminding, that they’re part of a genre that deserves to be taken seriously. But Alice Rohrwacher’s enigmatic and bracing La Chimera, its touch as glancing as a zephyr, asks more of us while demanding less. It’s the kind of movie you wake up from, as opposed to one you merely watch.
‘La Chimera’: Josh O’Connor Digs His Own Grave — and Comes Back a Star
The former ‘Crown’ actor officially starts his leading-man phase with this moody, magical-realist story of a tomb raider chasing a lost love
An Italian director on her own wavelength didn’t seek out the limelight — it found her
Josh O’Connor Lived in a Camper Van, Bathed in a Lake, and Chopped Wood to Star in ‘La Chimera’
The British actor, along with filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher and co-star Isabella Rossellini, tells IndieWire about his very Method approach to playing an archaeologist obsessed with the ghost of an old flame.