15/04/2010

Daniele Luchetti returns to the Croisette after the success of his 2007 film My Brother Is an Only Child [+see also:
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It stars Elio Germano (My Brother Is an Only Child) as a working-class man in Rome, who must come to terms with a death caused by a traumatic event.

“The film mixes various horizons, such as life and profound pain. It is simultaneously furious and lively” Luchetti told press agency ANSA. “I worked less on lightening up the tone this time, in order to let the truth emerge”. He added that he had “a great desire look to at my country through a character that was not sweetened down; an ambitious working-class man who is full of life and dishonest.”

This will be Luchetti’s fourth time at Cannes. In 1991 he was in competition with Il Portaborse while his 1998 debut feature It’s Happening Tomorrow won a Camera D’Or mention in Un Certain Regard, the section in which My Brother… also screened.

Out of competition in the official selection will play Sabina Guzzanti’s documentary Draquila: L’Italia che Trema, on what has happened since last year’s earthquake in Aquila.

Also returning is jury member Giovanna Mezzogiorno, who was in Cannes last year with the film Vincere [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)