Italian auteur Marco Tullio Giordana, greatest identified internationally for sweeping terrorism-themed epic “The Better of Youth” (2003) is ready to quickly return behind the digital camera on “La Vita Accanto” a psychological drama a couple of proficient younger lady contending with profound rejection resulting from her appears to be like.
Capturing is ready to start out on June 5 in Vicenza, Northern Italy, on “Vita Accanto,” (the title will be translated as “the life beside”) which is co-written and produced by Marco Bellocchio – the Italian grasp who’s at present competing for a Cannes Palm d’Or with “Kidnapped.”
Italy’s Intramovies has began launching pre-sales on “Vita Accanto” in Cannes.
Giordana’s new undertaking is predicated on an eponymous prizewinning novel by Italian author Mariapia Veladiano a couple of lady named Rebecca who from the very second of start turns into ostracized by her household and the world round her “as a result of she doesn’t conform to aesthetic canons [of beauty],” Giordana instructed Selection.
“Her bodily look prompts nice perturbation in her mom, who rejects her after which plunges right into a deep melancholy,” the director stated.
“Her complete adolescence is marked by disgrace and wanting to cover from others.” However from an early age Rebecca reveals extraordinary musical skills. Her aunt – who’s her father’s twin – is a well-known live performance pianist who acknowledges her expertise, so Rebecca turns into her pupil.
The aunt, to be performed by ace Italian stage and display screen actor Sonia Bergamasco (“The Better of Youth”), Bergamasco can also be a educated classical pianist, turns into a kind of deputy mom for the lady whose bodily particularity within the movie can be represented by a really seen purple stain on her pores and skin, Giordana stated.
Paolo Pierobon, who gleefully performs Pope Pius IX in Bellocchio’s “Kidnapped,” has been solid as Rebecca’s well-to-do father, a outstanding gynecologist. Her mom can be performed by Valentina Belle’ who most just lately appeared in Disney+ unique collection “The Good Moms” that gained the Berlinale Sequence award.
For the function of Rebecca as an adolescent, Giordana has solid rising younger Italian pianist Beatrice Barison, making her performing debut.
“Vita Accanto,” which is ready between the late 1980’s and the yr 2000 can be shot in and round Vicenza which is thought for its Palladian structure.
Bellocchio, Giordana and Gloria Malatesta (“Kids of the Night time”) co-wrote the screenplay. Giordana stated that Bellocchio, whereas penning the script, made a number of drawings in it – as is customary for him – that he’ll use for example Rebecca’s diary within the movie.
“Vita Accanto” is being produced by Bellocchio and his producing associate Simone Gattoni through their Kavac Movie shingle in tandem with Rai Cinema and the Veneto Movie Fee.
Giordana’s more moderen works since “Better of Youth” – which gained the Cannes 2003 Un Sure Regard Award – comprise immigration drama “As soon as You Are Born You Can no Longer Conceal” that launched from Cannes in 2005; Monica Bellucci-starrer “Wild Blood,” which additionally bowed from Cannes in 2008; and darkish drama “Yara,” a reconstruction of the homicide of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio that was a 2021 Netflix Italy unique movie.
