Saverio Costanzo Wraps 1950s-Set ‘Finalemente L’Alba’ With Lily James, Joe Keery & Willem Dafoe; Talks Moving On From TV Hit ‘My Brilliant Friend’: “I Needed To Free Myself”
deadline.comItalian director and screenwriter Saverio Costanzo has just wrapped his upcoming film Finalemente L’Alba, starring newcomer Rebecca Antonaci alongside international cast Lily James, Joe Keery, Willem Dafoe and Rachel Sennott.
Set in the golden age of Rome’s historic Cinecittà in the 1950s, the feature follows teenage ingenue Mimosa (Antonici) over the course of one night after she is hired as an extra.
A dark shadow hangs over her personal voyage in the mysterious death of Wilma Montesi, a real-life young woman from Rome with acting aspirations, whose semi-naked body was found on a beach in 1953, on the nearby Lazio coastline.
A cause célèbre at the time, amid theories she had been caught up in a high society prostitution and drugs ring, Federico Fellini conjured up her spirit in the final scene of his 1960 classic La Dolce Vita, in the figure of the blond-haired girl who calls out to Marcello Mastroianni’s character on the beach.
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