18/02/2022 - Set in Rome in the 1970s, Emanuele Crialese’s hotly anticipated film is currently in post-production

Penélope Cruz, who has just been nominated for the Oscars thanks to her part in Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers [+see also:
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It’s possible that the film will be selected for the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, where the Roman director won an award in the Critics’ Week line-up in 2002 for Grazia’s Island [+see also:
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L’immensità is set in Rome in the 1970s. The Borghetti family have just moved into one of the city’s countless, newly built apartment blocks. Despite their new living arrangement on the top floor of one such block, looking out across the entire city, Clara (Cruz) and Felice (Vincenzo Amato, recently seen in Tornare [+see also:
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The screenplay for the film was written by the director alongside Francesca Manieri and Vittorio Moroni, while photography was overseen by Gergely Poharnok (Sole [+see also:
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L’immensità is a co-production between Italy and France, helmed by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside (owned by Fremantle) and Dimitri Rassam for Chapter 2 and Warner Bros Pictures Italy, who are distributing the film. The movie enjoys the support of the Italian Ministry for Culture, Canal+ and France 3 Cinéma. Pathé will distribute the film in France and Switzerland while world sales fall to Pathé International.

(Translated from Italian)