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Mario Martone the task of representing Italy, Together with the sisters Alice and Alba Rorhwacher, Exceptional jurors
(by Cannes Luigi Noira and Vittorio De Agrò (RS) with the kind collaboration of Eleonora Ono – the photos are published courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival)
The presence of Italian cinema in this 78th edition of the Festival par excellence is entrusted to Mario Martone
In fact, only one the Italian film in competition is that will represent us in less a week on the Croisette.
It is true that in the other competitive selection of emerging directors a Certain Regard are two Italian titles referred to in the following.
The art of joy is the fil rouge that unites the past edition when Valeria Golino presented the TV series of the same name during the meeting with Therry Fremaux. And now the same director has chosen the Mario Martone film on Goliarda Sapienza as a representative of Italy at the 78th edition
OUT by Mario Martone - The plot: Roma, 1980. The writer Goliarda Sapienza ends up in prison for stealing jewelry, But the meeting with some young prisoners proves to be an experience of rebirth for her. Prison exit, In a warm Roman summer, Women continue to frequent each other and Goliarda holds a deep bond with Roberta, habitual criminal and political activist. A relationship that no one, out, It can be able to understand but thanks to which Goliarda finds the joy of living and the push to write.
Martone grew up at the theater. The debut in the cinema took place in the 90s with the death of a Neapolitan mathematician , Renato Caccioppoli, Tormented scientist internally with interpreters Renato Carpentieri and an almost unknown Toni Servillo. He continues his research on his Naples where he describes the duplicity of Naples, archaic on the one hand, modern on the other.
Also in the 90s he was winner of David di Donatello with harassing love. But it is with the history of Italy where documentary and dramaturgy merge that over the years 2000 receives the well -deserved success with us we believed (2010), History of three southern boys involved in Giovine Italia against the Bourbons, followed by the fabulous young man with Elio Germano winner of various David di Donatello.
In 2018 presents in Venice Capri-Revolution starring Marianna Fontana, while of the 2019 It is the turn of the mayor of the Rione Sanità.
In 2021 Once again at the Venice Film Festival he presents here I laugh me, starring Toni Servillo in the role of the Neapolitan playwright and actor Eduardo Scarpetta. In 2022 He presents his transposition of the novel by Ermanno Rea Nitalgia to the Cannes Film Festival, with Favino protagonist who, however, does not convince. Finally to the Berlinal 2023 He pays homage to Massimo Troisi with a touching doc in memory of the artist who died prematurely.
Today drawing inspiration from the biography of the writer Goliarda Sapienza mixes reality with dramaturgy.
We put on him so much confidence for the previous works and the results obtained so far as Thierry Fremaux will have taken into account to use the choices of his selectionrs. Of course Martone will have to deal with cinema giants because the selection is truly remarkable with names loved by the festival such as Wes Anderson, Jean-Pierre e Luc Dardenne, Julia DUCOURNAU, Sergei LOZNITSA, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Kelly REICHARDT e Joachim TRIER, but he has the rigorous and documentary style that distinguishes him from his.
With these premises we hope that justice will be done on the failure to recognize the previous edition to Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino.
Then all we have to say is: Long live Italian Cinema, indeed Neapolitan!
But Italy is also represented with two other titles in the competition of new promises a Certain Regard:
The first is the cities of Pianura by Francesco Sossai
The director born in Feltre in 1989 He lives and works in Veneto. He studied direction at the Dffb Deutsche Film- and television academy di Berlino . Other cannibals is his first feature film when he graduated.
The film present in Cannes tells the story of Carlobianchi and Doriano, two paved fifty -year -olds with an obsession: Go drinking the last glass. One night, wandering in the car from one bar to another, they come across Giulio by chance, A shy architecture student: The encounter with these two improbable mentors will profoundly transform Giulio into his way of seeing the world and love, and to imagine the future.
The second is head or cross? by Matteo Zoppis and Alessio Rigo de Righi
It is a western on the butters in post -unification Italy; Two young lovers get on the run following the murder of her husband. Everyone is on their tracks but nobody knows the truth.
The two directors also signed King Crab selected at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs together 2021 Just in Cannes and Solego in 2016.
The two stories all Italian show the malaise of the Bel Paese which, however, is a source of interest of the French
We would like to remember that Italy will also be represented by the director Alice Rorhwacher as president of the jury who will assign the gold chamber to a new director of the following:
After the duo of last year with Emmanuelle Béart and Baloji, This year the Italian director and screenwriter Alice Rohrwacher was chosen to preside over the jury of the Caméra d'Or. This award rewards a work first presented in the official selection, The Critical Week Or Alla Quinzaine is Réislesurs.
Alice Rohrwacher, whose delicate work has blossomed in Cannes, will in turn reward a(a) director.
In 2024, the gold House went to Halfdn Tøndel for Armand, Previewed to a Certain Regard.
“The first few times are always important and accompany us throughout their lives”, Alice Rohrwacher said. How to enter an unknown room, approach the loved one for the first kiss or land on a foreign land. There is something golden that envelops these moments in our memory. This is why the most prestigious prize for first works is called Caméra d'Or?”
In his first feature film, Celestial body (Heavenly Body), PRESENTATO went fifteen directors nel 2011, Alice Rohrwacher has explored a relationship with the world made of discoveries and begins through the portrait of a thirteen -year -old girl. His second feature film, Wonders, was selected to compete at the Cannes Film Festival of 2014 where the Grand Prix won. Instead the third film Lazzaro Felice, presented in competition in Cannes in 2018, The prize for the best screenplay was awarded to ex Equo, By incorporating Alice Rohrwacher's singular writing talent. Of the Chimera, Considered by the director the conclusion of a trilogy formed with his two previous feature films, It was also presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023. Set against the background of the traffic of antiquity and a parable on our relationship with the past, The film analyzes the way the origins shape our relationship with others, with life and with the world.
But the director will be joined by his sister Alba who will be part of the international jury.
Among the most requested Italian actresses in the world, Alba Rohrwacher got noticed with I am Luca Guadagnino's love, The loneliness of the prime numbers of Saverio Costanzo, Sleeping Beauty by Marco Bellocchio and sworn virgin of Laura Bispuri. Habitual of the Cannes Film Festival, presented several films in competition, in particular with his sister, The director Alice Rohrwacher: Wonders (Grand Prix 2014), happy Lazarus (Prix du scene from-level 2018) and the chimera (2023); and also with the story of the stories of Matteo Garrone (2014) and three floors by Nanni Moretti (2020). In Lavorato or Arnaud Dsplechin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stéphane Brizé, Pablo Larraín, Noah Baumbach and Isabel Coixet. Has received numerous prizes, including a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, A gold Marc'Aurelio at the Rome Film Festival, Two David di Donatello, Two silver ribbons and two gold globe.
Ed: In total the titles proposed in the main competition, UCR and FC are 67, while in the collateral sections QZ, SdC and Acid are 39 Beyond Cannes Classics and Plage films.
Thanks in advance go to the RdC staff for their commitment.
luigi Noera