(ANSA) - CANNES, MAY 16 - A powerful novel and scenario, a story of adolescent friendship and nostalgia, the one that takes you to the guts and no longer leaves you costing what it costs.
NOSTALGIA by Mario Martone from the novel of the same name by Ermanno Rea (Feltrinelli, 2016) starring Pierfrancesco Favino is the Italian flag bearer at the Cannes festival which opens on Tuesday 17 May with Michel Hazanavicius' zombies without Z.
It is the only film competing for the Palme d'Or with the tricolor flag, but our cinema is also scattered elsewhere, testifying to its international value and the circularity of talents.
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is Italian, from Turin, in competition with LESAMANDIERS in which she retraces her training experience at the famous theater school in Patrice Cherau near Paris and very Italian the two protagonists of THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS of the Belgians Charlotte Vanermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen, Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi from the book of the same name by Paolo Cognetti (Einaudi, 2017 Strega prize).
In the Cannes Premiere section there is the long-awaited EXTERNAL NIGHT by Marco Bellocchio, a TV series that also has a theatrical release in two parts, a story 'freely inspired' by the tragedy of the Moro sequestration.
Pietro Marcello will open the Quinzaine desRealisateurs with LE VELE SCARLATTE, his first film in France, with a French cast and an Italian co-production.
In the first world championship, Jasmine Trinca's directorial debut is expected-nellagiuria chaired by Vincent Lindon who will award the Palme d'Or on 28 May-with MARCEL starring Alba Rohrwacher, dedicated to her parents, presented in the SpecialScreening section.
VALERIA GOLINO is jury president at Un CertainRegard.
Alice Rohrwacher is at the festival, again this year, the protagonist of one of the Rendez Vous with the public.
It will bring the new unreleased short film LE PUPILLE produced by AlfonsoCuarón, shot in Super 16 and in 35mm format.
LAURA MORANTE is also in Nicolas Bedos' Masquerade out of competition.
For the CinefSelection the short film by Valerio Ferrara, produced by the centrosperimentale di cinematography, IL BARBIERE COMPLOTTISTA and aCannes XR the short MONTEGELATO by Davide Rapp, a production: -orama.
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