Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Revered Italian auteur Paolo Taviani will soon be back in the director’s chair. Shooting is set to start in April on “Canto Delle Meduse,” a pandemic-themed drama helmed by Taviani with Polish-Italian actor Kasia Smutniak (“Domina”) attached to star.
The rest of the film’s cast is being kept under wraps. Fandango is launching sales at the EFM on the project, which is produced by Donatella Palermo’s Stemal Entertainment and RAI Cinema.
Taviani, who, with his late brother Vittorio, won the Berlin Golden Bear in 2012 with drama “Caesar Must Die,” and in 2022 competed at the Berlinale with solo work “Leonora Addio.” “Canto Delle Meduse,” which translates as “Chant of the Gorgons” — gorgons being the mythical Greek female creatures with snakes on their heads that can turn people into stone by looking at them — is a film that “depicts several days during lockdown that forced us to stay inside our homes like bad kids.
And the wish to go out and walk,” Taviani said in his directors’ statement. “But the silence outside was not a silence inside me.
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