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Jonas Carpignano on Eliciting Great Performances From Non-Professional Actors in ‘A Chiara’
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentJonas Carpignano has become known for a particular type of naturalism born from observing – and then depicting – life in contemporary Calabria, specifically in the coastal town of Gioia Tauro, known as an ‘Ndrangheta mob hotbed, in a trilogy that started with “Mediterranea,” which won the Critics Week Grand Prize in 2015, followed by “A Ciambra,” and more recently “A Chiara.”In his latest work the titular teenager, Chiara, gradually comes to discover that her close-knit family has ties to organized crime.
