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‘Nostalgia’ Duo Mario Martone And Ippolita Di Majo Peel Back Layers Of Italy’s Oscar Entry – Contenders New York

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Italian director Mario Martone said that his latest film Nostalgia is very similar to his 1995 film L’amore molesto (Troubling Love).During a panel discussion at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event, Martone explained the connection between adapting Elena Ferrante’s first novel L’amore molesto and Ermanno Rea’s book Nostalgia for the big screen.  “In L’amore molesto we followed this woman,” Martone said. “We walk alongside her, and we enter into her past.

In Nostalgia, something similar happens. You have a man, and we walk with him and we enter into his past.”Nostalgia, which premiered this year at the Cannes Film Festival, follows Felice Lasco, played by Pierfrancesco Favino, who, after living 40 years abroad, returns to Naples and rediscovers places and codes of the city, facing a past that eats him away.

Last month Breaking, Glass Pictures acquired North American rights to Nostalgia, which is Italy’s entry for the International Feature Oscar.Rea’s book appealed to Martone for multiple reasons.“It’s a mysterious book,” he said. “Maybe you can think of it as a mobster story because of course there is a criminal situation between Felice and another character, but that is just one level of the story.

The sound of the story (was strong) and the character is not a hero.”Martone co-wrote Nostalgia with Ippolita Di Majo, who also found the book intriguingly complex.“I was also very impressed by the human side of Felice,” said Di Majo onstage. “(He is) somebody whose roots were torn.

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