Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio,” which recently won the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion and is Italy’s international Oscars contender, is scoring stellar returns at the local box office and fast becoming the country’s indie darling.
The intimate period drama, which is largely spoken in Northern Italian dialect and is playing with Italian-language subtitles in local cinemas, has been rapidly turning into a surprise local box office sensation, gradually going from a 26 screen micro-release on Sept.
19 via distributor Lucky Red to a much wider 340-screen outing this past weekend. “Vermiglio,” now in its third frame, this past weekend clocked in second only to “Joker: Folie à Deux,” according to national box office compiler Cinetel.
The film has so far pulled €1.2 million ($1.3 million), which makes it “the top Italian indie film of 2024,” said Lucky Red head of theatrical Gabriele D’Andrea.
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