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Filming kicks off for La madre with Carmen Maura and Stefano Dionisi

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- The film is actor Angelo Maresca’s debut as a director and is based on Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda’s novel by the same name

Filming for La madre (meaning the mother in Italian, a provisional title) started in Rome on January 16. The film is loosely based on the similarly titled short novel by Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda. It will be a directing debut for stage, television and film actor Angelo Maresca and will star Spanish actress Carmen Maura (photo – recently seen in The Women on the 6th Floor [+see also:
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), Stefano Dionisi (Cocapop), Luigi Burruano and newcomer Laura Baldi.

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The screenplay, written by Dardano Sacchetti, Arcangelo Bonaccorso and Angelo Maresca, in collaboration with Laura Sabatino, tells the story of a man torn by passion and faithfulness and the morbid obsessions of a mother.

“We decided to transpose the story from 1930 to today, putting more emphasis on the erotic tension in the book,” explained film producer Flavia Parnasi from Combo Produzioni. The film will be shot in the Roman neighbourhood of Eur, in modern and cold surroundings suggestive of feelings of desolation.

Photography has been taken on by Vittorio Omodei Zorini (20 sigarette [+see also:
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), staging by Massimiliano Nocente (Saturn in Opposition), costumes by Andrea Cavalletto (Dieci inverni), and executive production by Mario Mazzarotto from Movimento Film, which will distribute the film. The Roman company coproduced The Future by Alicia Scherson, which will have its world premiere tomorrow, January 19, at the Sundance Film Festival (read the news story).

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(Translated from Italian)

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