A great name in Italian cinema, Liliana Cavani, who revealed herself to the world in the 70s and 80s via The Night Porter, starring Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde, Beyond Good and Evil and The Skin is stepping back behind the cameras.

Twenty years on from her last film Ripley’s Game [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which is based on the homonymous literary work by physicist Carlo Rovelli, who’s known for the loop quantum gravity theory and whose books are international bestsellers. The scientist collaborated on the screenplay penned by Cavani and Paolo Costella.

The Order of Time, on which shooting is underway in Sabaudia (Rome) until mid-October, explores what happens to a group of long-term friends one night when, during their annual get-together to celebrate a birthday in a villa by the sea, they discover that the world might be ending within the space of a few hours. From that moment on, the time separating them from the possible end of their lives seems to flow differently, both speedily and never-endingly, over a summer’s night which will change their lives forever.

The cast stars Alessandro Gassmann (recently seen in Il Pataffio [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mauro Mancini
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ficha de la película], as well as in his new directorial effort Breaking Up in Rome [+lee también:
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The crew consists of director of photography Enrico Lucidi, editor Massimo Quaglia, set designer Maurizio Sabatini and costume designer Mariano Tufano.

The Order of Time is an Italian-Belgian co-production by Indiana Production, Gapbusters and Vision Distribution, which will be distributed in Italy and worldwide by the latter.