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Italy Looks to ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’
Cinema Italiano is on a roll, as reflected by the fact that this year Italy has scored three Cannes competition slots. Despite the persisting sore spot that sees the country still lagging behind other European territories in terms of post-pandemic box office returns, Italy “continues to produce and invest heavily in film and…
True Tale of German Women Forced to Taste Hitler’s Food to Be Depicted by Silvio Soldini in ‘The Tasters’
Veteran Italian auteur Silvio Soldini (“Bread and Tulips,” “Emma”) is set to direct “The Tasters,” which will reconstruct the true untold story of the women conscripted to be Adolf Hitler’s food tasters…
Nanni Moretti’s ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’ Scores Slew of Sales – Watch Trailer in Which He Excoriates Netflix
Nanni Moretti’s “Il sol dell’avvenire” (“A Brighter Tomorrow”), a multi-layered love letter to filmmaking in the age of streaming giants, has scored a slew of sales ahead of it’s Cannes bow. French sales company Kinology has sealed deals to Moretti’s latest work with a slew of territories including…
Italy’s Eagle Pictures Swoops on Farah Nabulsi’s Palestine-Set ‘The Teacher’ As Goodfellas Launches Sales in Cannes
Palestinian-British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi’s upcoming drama “The Teacher,” which is shot and set in Palestine’s Left Bank, has been acquired by top Italian indie distributor Eagle Pictures just as Vincent Maraval’s Goodfellas launches sales on the timely title in Cannes.
‘Freaks vs. the Reich’ Director Gabriele Mainetti Shooting Rome-Set Kung Fu Movie
Italian director Gabriele Mainetti, known internationally for genre-bending titles “They Call Me Jeeg” and “Freaks vs. the Reich,” is shooting a kung fu movie set in Rome’s multi-ethnic Piazza Vittorio quarter. Cameras have just started rolling in Rome on Mainetti’s yet-to-be titled third feature that will see him riff on martial arts movie tropes,…
Childhood friends reunite as adult mountaineers to pay an emotional debt to their shared father figure in this sweeping Italian-language drama Pietro and Bruno are brothers in everything but blood. Their friendship was forged during one glorious pre-adolescent summer, when Pietro’s parents rented a house in the Aosta valley in the Italian Alps…
How Italy Drew ‘White Lotus’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ to Its Shores
As high-profile international productions continue to flock to Italy, its film commissions have joined forces, leaving producers’ old divide-and-conquer playbook in the dust. “We believe that the success of one member is the success of all members,” says Cristina Priarone, president of the Italian Film Commissions Assn.
Penélope Cruz on Trans Rights and Why She’s Been Preparing Her Whole Life for L’immensità
Throughout his career, director Emanuele Crialese has focused on telling stories about migration, both literal (his gorgeous Nuovomondo chronicles an Italian family’s journey to NYC during the turn of the century) and figurative (in Respiro, a woman rediscovers herself while battling mental illness). In L’immensità, he brings both dimensions into play by telling his most personal tale yet; an autobiography of sorts, set in 1970s Rome, in which the young Andrea (Luana Giuliani) begins to question their gender identity.
L’immensità, Starring Penélope Cruz, Explores a Trans Boyhood Story
L’immensità is a raw look at family: the good, the bad, and the in-betweens. It’s set in 1970s Rome and features a pretty well-off family.
Review: Imagining the possibilities of life in the touching Italian drama ‘L’immensità’
There is a certain beauty of childhood that many filmmakers struggle to materialize onscreen. To be a child is to exist inside a world within a world, one governed by its own forms and rituals as well as the vastness and curiosity of the unknown…