Courtesy of his Instagram account, Ferzan Ozpetek has revealed the first images from his fifteenth film which is currently in post-production, Diamanti [+lee también:
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Joining them in the cast are Stefano Accorsi (awarded a David di Donatello for Radiofreccia and Italian Race [+lee también:
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Produced by Marco Belardi on behalf of Greenboo Production, together with Faros Film and Vision Distribution in collaboration with Sky, the film was shot exclusively in Rome, based on a screenplay penned by Carlotta Corradi, Elisa Casseri and the director himself. Set in the present-day and in the 1970s, Diamanti explores the life events and romantic ups and downs of a group of women who gravitate around a significant film costume business directed by two sisters, who are as different as they are close-knit. The director’s note shared yesterday reads as follows: “A director calls upon his favourite actresses with whom he’s worked and whom he’s loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t give much away: he observes them and gleans inspiration, until his imagination catapults them into another era, a past time when the noise of sewing machines fills a workplace managed and populated by women, where men only play marginal roles and the story of cinema can be told from another point of view: that of its costumes. Amidst loneliness, passions, anxieties, heartrending shortcomings and unshakeable bonds, reality and fiction interweave, as do the lives of these actresses with those of their characters, competition with sisterhood and the visible with the invisible”.

Before his most recent films mentioned above, Ozpetek was known for Hamam: The Turkish Bath, Harem Suarè (selected for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section), His Secret Life (in competition in Berlin), Facing Windows [+lee también:
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The film’s director of photography is Gian Filippo Corticelli who’s been collaborating with the director for over twenty years, while set design comes courtesy of Deniz Kobanbay, costumes are by Stefano Ciammitti, editing by Pietro Morana (who also signed his name to Nuovo Olimpo and The Fortune Goddess), and the movie’s music is composed by Giuliano Taviani and Carmelo Travia. Vision Distribution are handling international sales for Diamanti, which is hitting Italian cinemas on 19 December courtesy of the same company.