Paolo Sorrentino’s series is immensely spiritual insofar as it posits questions that man has long posited yet struggles to ask today.
You chose: the great beauty
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Last week, when Milena Canonero won a fourth Academy Award for Best Costume Design for her work on “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” the world’s attention was drawn yet again to Italy’s history of excellence in this category
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Based on his novel Il trono vuoto (The Vacant Throne), Roberto Andò’s film Viva la libertà appeared last year in Italy at a propitious moment, just as Florence mayor Matteo Renzi stormed to national political prominence and assumed the office of prime minister (the youngest in Italian history) in early 2014. Both the film and the reality deal with a moment of crisis of the left; but perhaps that is where the similarities end.
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First published in Italian in 2010, well before the world-wide success of La Grande Bellezza, this debut novel from one of Italy’s most famous movie directors is a brilliant cockeyed state-of-the-nation address that captures the brand of Italian modernity after the years of “Berlusconification.”
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The Neapolitan actress, who starred as Trumeau in The Great Beauty, stars as Tony Pagoda, a fictional Neapolitan singer who's the protagonist of Paolo Sorrentino's novel Hanno Tutti Ragione (Everybody's Right). The show is featured in the second edition of the In Scena Italian Theater Festival, (June 9-24)
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N.I.C.E. - New Italian Cinema Events – is back in the USA and its director discusses with i-Italy the difficulties of making cinema in a moment of economic and political crisis, the role of comedy, the new directors that are coming out and more.
