There’s a trend in Italian cinema that has become quite clear: internationalism. Its stories grow more international with each year passing, both in genres and themes, and Italian filmmakers are more and more appreciated abroad.
Just one example: Luca Guadagnino. The Sicilian director guides his fellow ‘international-Italian’ filmmakers at the VFF. His Bones and All is a sentimental horror filmed in deep America starring Timothée Chalamet. An intimist movie on part of Andrea Pallaoro: his Monica is set in the American Midwest and tells the story of a formerly estranged daughter who, twenty years after her last contact, travels back to her hometown to visit her ailing mother. Much awaited for is The Hanging Sun by Francesco Carrozzini, at his debut in fiction film. His picture is a thriller drama shot in Norway. The protagonist in John (Alessandro Borghi); he betrays, and later flees from, his boss (Peter Mullan) who is also his father. For as many Italians looking abroad, there are foreigners looking at Italy: at Venice Days, Abel Ferrara will present his portrait of Padre Pio (Shia LaBeouf) and Mark Cousins his document film Marcia su Roma, starring Alba Rohrwacher.
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD FOR AN EMERGING ACTOR/ACTRESS: Taylor Russell
An adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ novel of the same name, Bones and All is the story of a disturbing first love: that of Maren, a young woman who lives at the margins ...
After a very long time, trans woman Monica visits her family home in Ohio, which she left years before. The occasion is a visit to her ill mother, and to the rest of the family as well. To meet her mother again means, for Monica, a journey through pain and fear, needs and desi...
Inspired by Jo Nesbø’s novel Midnight Sun, this noir thriller is set in the Norwegian summer, between past and present. John (Alessandro Borghi), is running from his father, a powerful mob boss whom he betrayed. After finding shelter in a forest close to a remote v...
