Italy’s Taormina Film Festival can pay homage to its Sicilian setting by celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of Giuseppe Tornatore’s steamy interval drama “Malena” that launched Monica Bellucci‘s worldwide profession.
The storied occasion, now headed as soon as once more by advertising and marketing guru Tiziana Rocca, will host a screening of a restored copy of the movie a couple of 13-year-old boy’s obsession with a small-town siren in World War II Sicily that turns into the unhappy odyssey of a lady punished for her magnificence, and is that includes a nonetheless of Bellucci in “Malena” on its poster.
“On the 25th anniversary of the release of Malena, we are happy and proud to dedicate this year’s Taormina Film Festival poster to one of the most iconic films in contemporary Italian cinema,” stated Rocca in a press release, including that “Malena” “has left an indelible mark on the collective imagination, portraying with extraordinary delicacy and poetry the story of a woman, her allure, and her solitude.”
Under Rocca’s new mandate the fest can be divided into three sections: worldwide characteristic movie competitors, an out-of-competition part, and particular occasions.
Feature movies accomplished after Oct. 1, 2024, and offered solely as an Italian premiere are eligible for the competitors choice. An worldwide jury will award the next prizes: greatest movie, greatest actress, and greatest actor.
Held for the reason that mid-Nineteen Fifties within the Sicilian resort identified to U.S. audiences as the placement of “The White Lotus” Season 2, the summer time fest boasts an 8,000-seat open-air historical Greek amphitheater within the shadow of Sicily’s energetic Mt. Etna volcano. Guests have included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Steven Spielberg, Federico Fellini, Pedro Almodovar and Tom Cruise.
The 71st version of the Taormina Film Festival will run June 10-14
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