Anybody going to Cannes? Coming up from May 15-26, two movies will represent Italy at the Film Festival, one in and one out of competition.
Paolo Sorrentino, who seems to like to keep us guessing with movies that seem nothing alike and gave us Il Divo in 2008, This Must Be The Place (2011)and Le Conseguenze Dell’amore (The Consequences of Love) in 2004 is sending one that sounds again very different, La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty), about “an aging writer who bitterly recollects his passionate, lost youth.” It stars Toni Servillo (who worked with Sorrentino on Il Divo and Le Conseguenze Dell’amore) and Sabrina Ferilli.
Sorrentino has already won twice at Cannes, the Jury Prize for Il Divo and the Ecumenical Jury Prize for This Must Be The Place. He brought Le Conseguenze Dell’amore to Cannes as well and served as the Jury President of the Un Certain Regard.
Out of competition (in the Un Certain Regard category), Valeria Golino and her boyfriend Riccardo Scarmarcio will arrive with Miele, a collaboration that CIAK magazine refers to as “Italian Factory” (I don’t get it). Directed by Golino, a first time director, it’s produced by her long-term (and much younger) love Scarmarcio, and stars Jasmine Trinca (La Meglio Gioventù).
In it, 32 year-old Irene is a normal young unattached woman who has occasional romantic flings but lives her life along. She decides to dedicate her life to helping people, and that help, with the code name “Miele” (honey) is in the form of assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
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