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Filming commences on Francesca Archibugi's Vivere

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- Written with Francesco Piccolo and Paolo Virzì, the film stars Micaela Ramazzotti, Adriano Giannini and the Irish actress Roisin O'Donovan. Produced by Lotus and RAI Cinema

Filming commences on Francesca Archibugi's Vivere
Director Francesca Archibugi

Shooting is due to commence on the new film by Francesca Archibugi, Vivere [+see also:
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(working title: Un anno in Italia). After hitting our screens last year with Couch Potatoes [+see also:
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, the director of Mignon è partita and An Italian Name [+see also:
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is back on set with a story written with Francesco Piccolo and Paolo Virzi, and starring Micaela Ramazzotti (recently seen at Venice in Una storia senza nome [+see also:
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), Adriano Giannini and the young Irish actress Roisin O'Donovan.

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The film revolves around the Attorre family, who live in a decent suburb in a terraced house. Luca (Giannini), a freelance journalist and packager of coloured items, barely makes a living in the newspapers, while Susi (Ramazzotti), a dancer, has been reduced to teaching overweight ladies, and Lucilla, their six-year-old daughter, is quiet and imaginative but suffers from asthma. In a magnificent and incomprehensible Rome, multi-layered, maternal yet unkind, Mary Ann (O'Donovan), an Irish art history student, touches down to start a new job as an au pair to the little Lucilla. One year in Italy at the Attorre home will prove to be full of legitimate and illicit ties, friendship and love.

The film will be shot for eight weeks and also stars Massimo Ghini, Marcello Fonte (Best Actor at Cannes for Dogman [+see also:
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) Andrea Calligari, Valentina Cervi and Enrico Montesano.

Vivere was produced by Marco Belardi for Lotus Production (Leone Film Group) with RAI Cinema, in collaboration with 3 Marys Entertainment and will be distributed in Italian cinemas by 01 Distribution.

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(Translated from Italian)

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