Day: 5 December 2024

Global Audiences Need More from Italy

TORONTO – Italian Director Paolo Sorrentino, whose latest movie Parthenope is breaking box office records in Italy, has announced that his next film will be another collaboration (his eighth) with four-time David Di Donatello Winner Toni Servillo. The two famously worked together on the Oscar Winning The Great Beauty, The Hand of God and Il Divo. Sorrentino is not divulging much about the project other than its title – La Grazia – which he says will be a “love story”.

Nativity scenes coming from 22 countries around the world: exhibition in the Vatican

VATICAN CITY – There is the Nativity scene from Japan, made with Japanese paper, silk kimonos and tatami mats. And then the Brazilian one, made with coconut and banana fibres. But also the Neapolitan one, in wood and bark. The seventh edition of the International Exhibition “100 Nativity Scenes in the Vatican” promises to be particularly original, with very particular and different artistic representations of the birth of Jesus Christ (that’s “Nativity” in the Catholic religion meaning: in Italy it’s called “Presepe” and it’s an ancient hallmark of the Italian Christmas).