He’s thirty-four today, this 2008 Shooting Star (European Film Promotion Award) lived up to this galactic prediction and went on to star in more successful movies than almost anyone working in Italy today.
As Giacomo in Mario Martone’s Il Giovane Favoloso, Accio in Daniele Luchetti’s Mio Fratello E’ Figlio Unico, and Pietro in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Magnifica Presenza, Elio proved himself as a major player in Italian cinema, but it was in Luchetti’s La Nostra Vita that he won me over.
Don’t take my word for it, he won best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his 2011 role as the grieving husband, Claudio De Rosa.
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