Within the Antico Teatro within the Sicilian city of Taormina, the seventieth version of the Taormina Movie Competition bought off to a vigorous begin, with the Nastri d’Argento Awards ceremony, amid a mixture of comedy and controversy.
The comedy was readily available with the loudest applause of the night going to Carlo Verdone and Christian De Sica (above), two “pillars of Italian comedy” as they had been launched by Pilar Fogliati, star of “Confidenze,” and “Romeo Is Juliet.” Pilar herself was a recipient of her first Nastro d’Argento. The Nino Manfredi awards got by the late actor’s son and movie director Luca Manfredi to Emanuela Fanelli, final seen in Paola Cortellesi’s field workplace hit “There’s All the time Tomorrow” in addition to to Claudio Bisio, the actor-director who despatched a video message of thanks.
Different absent awardees had been Margherita Purchase and Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore who acquired a particular profession prize. One visitor who organizers may need wished had despatched a video message was Luca Barbareschi, the actor, director and producer of the David Mamet-scripted “The Penitent.” Bounding on stage, Barbareschi appeared first intent on livening up proceedings however quickly disconcerted host Laura Delli Colli with a rant about how movies must be extra entertaining and fewer political and a few common complaints concerning the state of the business earlier than dedicating his award to his “pricey associates” David Mamet and Roman Polanski, whose “The Palace” Barbareschi produced and appeared in. Other than his lengthy performing profession, Barbareschi was additionally a member of the Italian parliament, representing Silvio Berlusconi’s social gathering from 2008-13.
The award for greatest newcomers went to Beatrice Grannò, who appeared within the second season of “The White Lotus” (filmed in Taormina) and Nicolas Maupas, whose Rai-Netflix present “Mare Fouri” (The Sea Past) has made him right into a nationwide star. Alessio Vassallo, Maurizio Lombardi and Giovanni Veronesi additionally acquired prizes, that are given by the Union of Italian Movie Journalists.
The seventieth version of the Taormina Movie Competition runs from July 12-20.