Vasco Rossi and Ivan Cotroneo in Lucky Red’s catalogue
Questa storia qua, a documentary about Vasco Rossi (photo), and La kryptonite nella borsa, the first work by writer and screenwriter Ivan Cotroneo, are next season’s most anticipated releases for distribution and production house Lucky Rednews).
Questa storia qua, an intimate and unedited portrait of the greatest Italian rock star on the eve of his 60th birthday will be in cinemas from Wednesday, 7 September. "We are preparing a special event with a targeted launch," hinted Lucky Red’s President Andrea Occhipinti, "and the film will only be showing for two weeks". The documentary, produced by Indigo Film and directed by Alessandro Paris and Sibylle Righetti, may be presented at the next Venice Film Festival. br>
November will see the release of Ivan Cotroneo’s directing debut (screenwriter, amongst many, for I am Love [+see also:
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Other upcoming Lucky Red releases include Sex and Zen 3D, on 30 September, ("After that, we will not distribute any more 3D films," assured Occhipinti); Arietty by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by the master Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, on the 14 October; French films Little White Lies [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)
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