Antongiulio Panizzi: Last News

Marta Balaga “I am a product of my dream. Even as a child, I wanted to be an actress and enter this world, even though it was very far from my reality,” said Monica Bellucci at the Torino Film Festival, where she accepted the Stella Della Mole Award for Artistic Innovation.Bellucci also held a masterclass at the National Cinema Museum of Turin, discussing her career alongside Antongiulio Panizzi, who directed her recently in “The Girl in the Fountain.” In the film, which screened for the first time at the festival, Bellucci plays Anita Ekberg, the Swedish star famous for her role in “La Dolce Vita.” “Back then, Italian women would exist mostly within the domestic world.

Marta Balaga Anita Ekberg, the Swedish star immortalized in Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita,” where her character decides to walk into the Trevi Fountain to the delight, and terror, of Marcello Mastroianni, has a “complicated” story, Italian director Antongiulio Panizzi tells Variety.In “The Girl in the Fountain,” produced by Dugong Films and Eagle Pictures, and presented at the Torino Film Festival alongside Panizzi’s documentary “Piano Lessons: The Life and Art of German Diez Nieto,” he implies that the iconic scene turned out to be a burden for the actor, who got to experience what Rita Hayworth meant when she said that “they go to bed with Gilda; they wake up with me.” “Anita was actually very famous already before ‘La Dolce Vita.’