(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 14 - "I am proud and happy - adds Marco Bellocchio - to have been invited to the Cannes Festival and, now, calm not to be in competition. an exam at least I live it a bit like this) which I will face without taking a sedative "." It is great satisfaction for the inclusion of 'Outside night' by Marco Bellocchio in the official selection of the next Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes Premiere. In the cast Fabrizio Gifuni interprets the statesman Aldo Moro kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades in 19778 and also starring among others ToniServillo and Margherita Buy.
"It is a recognition, if ever there was still a need, for a master of cinema that the Festival has always loved, and the sign of attention to the serial story, which goes beyond the historical perimeter of cinema and now concerns audiovisual narration as such. ".
Thus the director of RaiFiction, Maria Pia Ammirati comments on the entry of the series'Esterno Notte 'in the selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
"This prestigious showcase - he continues - confirms the quality of a work that on the proposal of Bellocchio has combined Rai Fiction, The Apartment, a company of the Fremantle group, KavacFilm and Arte France. And it seems right to underline how 'Esternonotte' is a challenge under many points of view, for an undisputed authorship that tests itself on a new format, for the originality with which Bellocchio returns to face a dramatic passage in Italian history, for the ability of fiction to find in the contradictions of the past the strength and reasons for a present finally different. (ANSA).
