L'innocenza di Clara in the running in Montreal
- The second feature film by Toni D’Angelo, the only Italian director with a film in competition, will be presented at the 36th Canadian World Film Festival. Eight other Italian films on the program
The only Italian film in competition, L'innocenza di Clara (photo), the second feature film by Toni D'Angelo (Una notte [+see also:
trailer
film profile]), will be screened as a world premiere tomorrow, Tuesday the 28th of August, at the 36th Montreal World Film Festival - (August 23rd – September 3rd).
The film, produced by 13 Dicembre and funded by theMinistry of Culture (MiBAC), is a film noir that takes place in the marble caves of Carrara and the forests Lunigiana, starring Chiara Conti (photo), Alberto Gimignani, Luca Lionello and Giulio Beranek.
The screenplay, written by the director together with Maurizio Braucci (Gomorra [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Domenico Procacci
interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Matteo Garrone
film profile], Tatanka [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Reality [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Matteo Garrone
film profile]), tells the story of Clara (Conti), a beautiful and restless woman who enters into the life of Maurizio (Gimignani). The two fall in love and get married, but she also becomes a part of Giovanni’s (Lionello’s) life, a friend of Maurizio disturbed by this new presence who is quickly revealed as a dark lady. Tired of the monotone life far from the city, Clara rekindles her flame with an old lover. The discovery of these clandestine meetings by her husband’s friend, who happens to also be attracted to her, sets in motion a series of threats, revenge and crime.
Eight other Italian films are part of the Montreal film festival’s program: out of competition, Magnifica presenza [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Ferzan Ozpetek and La moglie del sarto by Massimo Scaglione; in competition for Debut International feature, Ciliegine [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Laura Morante; in the Focus on World Cinema section, Appartamento ad Atene [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Ruggero Dipaola, Talking To the Trees [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Ilaria Borrelli and Guido Freddi, La guerra del maiale by David Maria Putorti, Com'è bello far l'amore [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Fausto Brizzi and E' nata una star [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Lucio Pellegrini.
(Translated from Italian)
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