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Italy Looks to ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’

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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Cinema Italiano is on a roll, as reflected by the fact that this year Italy has scored three Cannes competition slots.

Despite the persisting sore spot that sees the country still lagging behind other European territories in terms of post-pandemic box office returns, Italy “continues to produce and invest heavily in film and is overcoming the crisis,” noted Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux after announcing the lineup.

The robust Croisette contingent marks the second time in 20 years that Italy lands three Cannes competition berths. Though the trio of selected directors — Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti and Alice Rohrwacher — are all Cannes regulars “they represent three different generations of auteurs,” said Paolo Del Brocco, chief of state broadcaster RAI’s RAI Cinema arm that co-produced all three titles.

And each of these films, he went on to point out, displays “very different ideas and cinematic visions.” Moretti is back on the Croisette with “Il sol dell’avvenire” (A Brighter Tomorrow) a multi-layered love letter to filmmaking and to the “Caro Diario” helmer’s longstanding personal and political obsessions.

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