Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The Locarno Film Festival has set Alpine elegy movie “Fiore Mio” (“A Flower of Mine”) as its pre-opening event.
It marks the first film written and directed by bestselling Italian novelist Paolo Cognetti (“The Eight Mountains”), who also stars.
Besides writing “Eight Mountains,” Cognetti was also “on set” when Belgian directors Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch shot the film adaptation of his book, which won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2022.
In “Flower of Mine,” Cognetti returns to similar Alpine settings, bringing along “Eight Mountains” cinematographer Ruben Impens as his DP.
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