Stefano Accorsi and Matilda De Angelis - who played the race car driver siblings in Italian Race [+lire aussi :
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Following her debut with Rovere, which won her the Italian critics’ Biraghi Prize for Best Newcomer at the Nastri d’Argento Awards, 2018 European Shooting Star Matilda De Angelis embarked on a brilliant artistic career (winning the 2021 David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress via Rose Island [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. Accorsi and De Angelis are joined in the cast by Marlon Joubert (The Hand of God [+lire aussi :
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Mordini is back on set following his Italian-British co-production Race for Glory [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. His previous films have been selected in the Berlinale (his first fiction film Smalltown Italy screening in competition), in Venice (Steel [+lire aussi :
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Based on Marco Franzoso’s homonymous novel, La lezione sees Mordini adapting a literary work for the second time, following on from The Catholic School, and signing his name to another screenplay with Luca Infascelli. The film follows a brilliant, young lawyer from Trieste who’s contacted by a charismatic university professor, whom she previously successfully defended against an accusation of sexual violence, to sue his university which has reinstated him but relegated him to a marginal role. Meanwhile, her past comes back to haunt her: strange signs, a fleeting sense of a presence and an ongoing threatening feeling lead her to believe that her ex-partner - who was abusive and obsessive over her, to the point of being convicted of stalking – is once again harassing her. As the line between reality and imagination blurs, Elisabetta decides to uncover the truth, in a crescendo of tension which ends with her being alone and calling everything she thought she knew into question.

Shot between Trieste and Rome, La lezione was produced by Roberto Sessa on behalf of Picomedia and Vision Distribution, in collaboration with Sky, with backing from the Film and Audiovisual Investment Development Fund managed by the Italian Ministry for Culture’s Film and Audiovisual Department and from the FVG Film Commission – PromoTurismoFVG. Vision Distribution will handle world sales and distribution in Italy.