In 1980, Italian writer and director Marco Tullio Giordana won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for his first feature film. Damn I will love youThis year, he returns for the 77th edition of the Swiss festival with Life next door (Life apart). And he’s back to collect another honor.
Marco Tullio Giordana was awarded a special Leopard in “tribute to his career” at the out-of-competition premiere of his new film in the picturesque Swiss city on Monday afternoon, festival organizers said.
“The 1980s, an Italian city of art, a wealthy family,” reads the description of the new film on the Locarno website. “Rebecca is born with a red spot on her face that generates rejection, cruelty and tormented love in the family. Music will be her refuge.”
Based on the novel of the same name by Maria Pia Veladiano, Giordana wrote the screenplay with Italian author Marco Bellocchio and Gloria Malatesta. The cast includes Sonia Bergamasco, Paolo Pierobon, Valentina Bellè, Italian pianist Beatrice Barison in her first feature film, Sara Ciocca and Michela Cescon.
Check out a clip from the film below.
“Locarno is a festival that is close to my heart because 44 years ago I received the Golden Leopard for my first film and since then I have returned several times,” said Giordana. THR “It’s a very friendly festival, compared to others that tend to be a whirlwind of activity, people coming and going. At Locarno, you can enjoy the films, meet old friends and maybe make new ones too.”
The filmmaker said he has always been fascinated by Italy’s many cities and towns, with their different cultures and traditions. “I feel like by making my films that are set in different regions of Italy, I’ve kind of taken a journey through my own country, discovering my own country,” he shared.
The setting of his new film, beautiful Vicenza, was one of the elements that attracted him to the project. “There was also the family bond, a theme that I have already addressed in several of my previous films,” he said. “But here, the setting and the family environment are more restricted, more bourgeois, more exclusive, which proves that being rich does not necessarily mean being happy and fulfilled.”
Why is family a recurring theme in Italian films? “In Italy, family is really a very important part of our culture,” Giordana said. THR. “And with this, I don’t just think of the happy little family, but of all the degeneration that can occur in family bonds and relationships.” Among the images shared, there is for example that of the Italian mother. “In a certain way, when we talk about the family in Italy, we are talking about Italian society. It’s like observing it under a microscope,…
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