Three local films hitting screens
The upcoming weekend is packed with new releases in Italy – at least ten – half of which are European.
Of the three Italian titles, first up is Carnera: The Walking Mountain [+see also:
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Mediaplex is bringing to six screens Claudio Sestieri’s Chiamami Salomè (“Call Me Salome”), which sets Oscar Wilde’s play in modern-day Naples, with Ernesto Mahieux as a Camorrista Herod and Elio Germano as John the Baptist. Produced by Pietro Innocenti for Star Plex, the film encountered a number of distribution problems and is finally being released two years after its completion.
Similar problems plagued Angelo Orlando’s third feature, Sfiorarsi, presented at the 2006 RomeFilmFest before screening in festivals worldwide. Co-starring and co-written by the director and Valentina Carnelutti, the film (produced by Alessandro Verdecchi) had half its budget slashed and is being released today in only one cinema (the Filmstudio in Rome).
After premiering in last year’s Venice Day, Emmanuel Mouret’s French film Shall We Kiss [+see also:
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The last (partially) European film of the week is a German co-production: Sergei Bodrov’s epic Mongol (on release through BIM), with Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano in the role of Genghis Khan.
(Translated from Italian)
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