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Liliana Cavani is back on set shooting The Order of Time

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- Twenty years on from Ripley’s Game, the director is shooting a film based on physicist Carlo Rovelli’s homonymous best-seller, starring Alessandro Gassmann, Claudia Gerini and Angela Molina

Liliana Cavani is back on set shooting The Order of Time
Physicist Carlo Rovelli and director Liliana Cavani during the shoot of The Order of Time

A great name in Italian cinema, Liliana Cavani, who revealed herself to the world in the 70s and 80s via The Night Porter, starring Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde, Beyond Good and Evil and The Skin is stepping back behind the cameras.

Twenty years on from her last film Ripley’s Game [+see also:
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, starring John Malkovich, the director is back on set shooting The Order of Time [+see also:
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, which is based on the homonymous literary work by physicist Carlo Rovelli, who’s known for the loop quantum gravity theory and whose books are international bestsellers. The scientist collaborated on the screenplay penned by Cavani and Paolo Costella.

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The Order of Time, on which shooting is underway in Sabaudia (Rome) until mid-October, explores what happens to a group of long-term friends one night when, during their annual get-together to celebrate a birthday in a villa by the sea, they discover that the world might be ending within the space of a few hours. From that moment on, the time separating them from the possible end of their lives seems to flow differently, both speedily and never-endingly, over a summer’s night which will change their lives forever.

The cast stars Alessandro Gassmann (recently seen in Il Pataffio [+see also:
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and Thou Shalt Not Hate [+see also:
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, and whose third directorial effort The Great Silence [+see also:
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was presented in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori last year), Claudia Gerini (recently seen in Mancino naturale [+see also:
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, Diabolik [+see also:
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and her first directorial effort Tapirulàn [+see also:
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), Edoardo Leo (recently seen in 18 Presents [+see also:
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, Ritorno al crimine [+see also:
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and C’era una volta il crimine [+see also:
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, as well as in his new directorial effort Breaking Up in Rome [+see also:
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), Ksenia Rappoport (seen in last year’s Venice Film Festival via Mama, I’m Home [+see also:
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),  Richard Sammel, Valentina Cervi, Francesca Inaudi, Angeliqa Devi and Mariana Tamayo, with Belgium’s Fabrizio Rongione (recently see in Azor [+see also:
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and Happening [+see also:
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) also making an appearance, alongside Spain’s Angela Molina (seen this year in Piety [+see also:
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and Carta a mi madre para mi hijo, Carla Simón’s short film for Miu Miu and Giornate degli Autori in Venice).

The crew consists of director of photography Enrico Lucidi, editor Massimo Quaglia, set designer Maurizio Sabatini and costume designer Mariano Tufano.

The Order of Time is an Italian-Belgian co-production by Indiana ProductionGapbusters and Vision Distribution, which will be distributed in Italy and worldwide by the latter.

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(Translated from Italian)

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