Comedy and controversy intertwined because the seventieth Taormina Movie Competition kicked off with the Nastri d’Argento Awards on the Antico Theater within the small city of Taormina, Sicily.
The comedy acquired the loudest applause of the evening, with Carlo Verdone and Christian De Sica (above) two of the “pillars of Italian comedy”, Confidential and Romeo is Juliet ‘s star Pilar Fogliati launched them. Pilar herself can also be the recipient of her first Nastro d’Argento. The Nino Manfredi Award was offered by Luca Manfredi, the late actor’s son and movie director, to Emanuela Fanelli (final seen in Paola Cortesi’s box-office hit There’s At all times Tomorrow “Some”) and actor and director Claudio Bisio, who despatched a video message thanking him.
Different absentee winners included Margherita Purchase and Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore, who acquired a particular profession award. One visitor organizers might wish to ship a video message to is Luca Barbareschi, actor and director of David Mamet’s “The Penitent.” Additionally a producer. On stage, Barbareschi appeared to be making an attempt to liven issues up at first, however shortly upset host Laura Delli Colli, ranting that the film wanted to be extra entertaining, much less political and made some normal complaints concerning the present state of the movie business earlier than awarding the award to his “expensive associates” David Mamet and Roman Polanski, Barbareschi Produced and starred of their “Palace.”
The Greatest Newcomer Award went to Beatrice Grannò, who starred within the second season of “White Lotus” (filmed in Taormina), and Nicolas Maupas, The latter’s Rai-Netflix present “Mare Fouri” (Past the Sea) made him a nationwide star. Alessio Vassallo, Maurizio Lombardi and Giovanni Veronesi additionally acquired awards from the Italian Federation of Movie Journalists.
The seventieth Taormina Movie Competition will probably be held from July twelfth to twentieth.
