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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…
‘L’immensità’ Review: Roman Holiday
Loosely based on the transgender director Emanuele Crialese’s transition, this Italian period drama is a sun-dappled nostalgia trip bristling with Oedipal tension.
‘The Eight Mountains’, ‘Exterior Night’ Take Top Honors At Italy’s David di Donatello Awards – Full Nominees and Winners List
Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s Italian-language drama The Eight Mountains and veteran Marco Bellocchio’s Exterior Night topped the 68th edition of Italy’s David di Donatello Awards on Wednesday evening. The Eight Mountains won best film as well as best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.
‘Beetlejuice 2’: Monica Bellucci Joins Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton
>Monica Bellucci, currently on screens in the comedy Mafia Mamma, is in negotiations to join the cast of bold-faced names in Beetlejuice 2.
‘The Eight Mountains’ Scores Top Honor at Italy’s David di Donatello Awards
“The Eight Mountains,” Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s Italian-language drama about friendship, mountains and growing up, scored the top prize at Italy’s 68th David di Donatello Awards. Besides winning best picture, the film also scooped statuettes for best non-original screenplay, photography and sound.
Cottage Core: the partners behind The Eight Mountains share the silly and sensual films they love
What’s a film that you have had a lifelong bond with? One you can go a long time without watching, and then return to as an old friend. CV : The Piano by Jane Campion opened up a world of intimacy and eroticism to me when I was thirteen. I remember watching it with my mother and her jumping on top of me to prevent me from watching when things got too tense. We both loved it…