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Pierfrancesco Favino Studied Up On Two Languages For Lead Role In ‘Nostalgia’ – Contenders International

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Pierfrancesco Favino is best known internationally for strong male character roles such as mobster Tommaso Buscetta in The Traitor, disgraced politician Bettino Craxi in Hammamet and terrorist-targeted vice-police chief Alfonso Noce in Padrenostro, for which he won Venice’s Volpi Cup for Best Actor.

In Mario Martone’s drama Nostalgia, he plays the gentler, less defined figure of Felice, a man in his 50s who returns from 40 years in the Middle East to his mysterious, layered home neighborhood in Naples to reconnect with his elderly mother and confront a past wrong.  RELATED: The – Deadline’s Full Coverage “What was interesting to me was this relationship with his mother and the tenderness of this man and how gentle he is.

It’s quite rare to see a man’s masculinity portrayed in that way,” Favino told a Contenders International panel Saturday. “I have to say he resembles me much more than The Traitor,” he added. “With The Traitor, I had to do a step towards something that’s really far from me.

In this occasion, I could think he’s something that belongs to me quite quickly.” A key challenge in the role for Rome-born and -based Favino was learning Neapolitan, which typically is spoken in parts of the city. “In Italy, there’s huge respect for the Neapolitan language,” he said. “All of our playwrights come from Naples.

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