02/04/2007

As with every year, at a little over a month before the opening of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27), the circle closes in on the possible Italian films that could make it to the Croisette.

While the out-of-competition presence seems certain of Ermanno Olmi’s Cento chiodi [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (One Hundred Nails), recently released in Italy, the others will just have to wait and see.

As previously announced in Cineuropa (see article), the number one contender for the competition section is Daniele Luchetti with Mio fratello è figlio unico [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Daniele Luchetti
interview: Riccardo Tozzi
film profile] (lit. “My Brother is an Only Child”), while Un certain regard may see the inclusion of French/Italian co-production L'abbuffata by Mimmo Calopresti, starring Gerard Depardieu as himself, alongside Calopresti’s muse, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (see news).

The Directors Fortnight could play host to Flying Lessons [+see also:
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film profile] by Francesca Archibugi, who was previously at Cannes in 1993 with The Great Pumpkin and in 2001 with Tomorrow (both in Un certain regard).

The success achieved in the Fortnight last year by Kim Rossi Stuart for his feature debut Along the Ridge [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kim Rossi Stuart
film profile] could be repeated by another actor-turned-director, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, whose comedy set in the music world entitled Lascia perdere Johnny (lit. “Forget About Johnny”) stars Valeria Golino and brothers Peppe and Tony Servillo.

Rossi Stuart himself might be back Cannes as the star of Riccardo Milani’s Il disco del mondo (Piano solo) [+see also:
trailer
film profile], on the life of jazz musician Luca Flores.

(Translated from Italian)