TORONTO – Nicknamed “Picchio” as a little boy by his father, Actor Pierfrancesco Favino was so enamoured with the moniker that he attempted to launch his career substituting it for his first name. Not surprisingly, he walked that idea back fairly quickly given how odd “Woodpecker” would have sounded being called out at auditions. Not the brightest idea for a stage name, nor entirely marketable. But why the nickname? He was vociferous as a child, given to fits and rages while often stomping on floors and banging walls – hence Picchio. But what his father might have shrugged off as childish petulance, revealed itself as steely determination and grit in his adulthood.
CITTÀ DEL VATICANO – C’è il presepe nipponico, fatto con la carta giapponese, i kimono di seta e le stuoie di tatami. E poi quello brasiliano, realizzato con le fibre di cocco e di banana. Ma anche quello napoletano, in legno e corteccia. Si preannuncia particolarmente originale la settima edizione dell’Esposizione Internazionale “100 Presepi in Vaticano”, una mostra che raccoglie opere realizzate da artisti di tutto il mondo, che hanno espresso la propria creatività nella rappresentazione delle scene della Natività…
TORONTO – Il regista italiano Paolo Sorrentino, il cui ultimo film Parthenope sta battendo i record al botteghino in Italia, ha annunciato che il suo prossimo film sarà un’altra collaborazione (l’ottava) con il quattro volte vincitore del David di Donatello Toni Servillo. I due hanno lavorato insieme per i film vincitori dell’Oscar La grande bellezza, La mano di Dio e Il Divo. Sorrentino non sta anticipando molto sul progetto, a parte il titolo, La Grazia, che dice sarà una “storia d’amore”…
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”.
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). →
