TORONTO – Stefano Sardo, co-writer of the Roberto Baggio biopic The Divine Ponytail, is releasing his second film as a director with Muori di Lei. It stars Riccardo Scamarcio, Maria Chiara Giannetta and Mariela Garriga in an erotic thriller set against the recent pandemic lockdown – though Sardo insists it’s not a film about the lockdown.
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – A “heavy” endorsement for Mark Carney and the Canadian Liberals: U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he wouldn’t mind if the Liberal Party won the next Canadian election, saying that “I think it’s easier to deal actually with a Liberal and maybe they’re going to win, but I don’t really care. It doesn’t matter to me at all…”. →
TORONTO – Filmmaker Silvio Soldini, best known for his warm-hearted romantic comedy Bread and Tulips (2000), will soon be back in theatres with something much darker – The Tasters. This will be the director’s German language debut, an adaptation of Rosella Postorino’s International best-selling novel “At the Wolf’s Table”. The Calabrian author, Postorino, won the prestigious Campiello Prize, the Luigi Russo Prize and the Rapallo Prize for the 2018 work, titled Le Assaggiatrici. →
by Marzio Pelù
TORONTO – The experts had predicted it, and unfortunately they were right: the annual rate of inflation increased last month (February), rising to 2.6%, from 1.9% in January. Statistics Canada announced it today, noting that the end of the GST/HST suspension (the tax on commercial goods, suspended by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau before Christmas, until February 15), contributed “notable upward pressure to prices for eligible products”. →
TORONTO – Renzo Piano’s scarab-shaped music halls in Rome recently hosted the photocall for Director Alessandro Tonda’s new film Il Nibbio. The film stars Claudio Santamaria as the heroic secret service agent who died while saving journalist Giuliana Sgrena – kidnapped in 2005 by Iraqi terrorists in Baghdad. Rounding out the principal cast are Sonia Bergamesco (as Giuliana Sgrena) and Anna Ferzetti (as Rosa Calipari), who were also on site for the event at the Parco della Musica.
