Venice: Fandango Takes Sales on Horizons Opener ‘Feeling Better,’ Reveals Moody New Clip (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Fandango Sales has taken global distribution rights outside Italy to “Feeling Better” (“Nonostante”), the hospital-set drama by Italian actor-director Valerio Mastandrea which will open the Venice Film Festival‘s Horizons section focusing on new trends in world cinema. “Feeling Better” – in which the Roman actor also stars – marks Mastandrea’s sophomore directorial effort following his 2018 feature debut “Laughing” (“Ride”) that launched from the Torino Film Festival and traveled on the festival circuit.
In “Feeling Better,” Mastandrea plays a man who “passes his days peacefully in a hospital with nothing much to worry about,” according to the provided synopsis.
He’s been there a while, sheltered from everything and everyone, with no responsibilities or problems, until a new patient – played by Argentina’s Dolores Fonzi (“Paulina”) – arrives in the ward.
The woman, whom he intersects with, is troubled and angry and accepts nothing about her medical condition. “She is not willing to wait and wants out of there, whether she has recovered or not,” the description says.
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