Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorIn a first for an Italian movie in over a decade, Daniele Luchetti’s Lacci has been set to open the Venice Film Festival’s 77th edition on September 2.
The drama is based on the novel by Domenico Starnone and stars Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Adriano Giannini and Linda Cadri.
It will screen out of competition.“Recently, we have all feared that cinema might become extinct,” says Luchetti. “Yet during the quarantine it gave us comfort, like a light gleaming in a cavern.
Today we have understood something else: that films, television series, novels, are indispensable in our lives. Long live festivals, then, which allow.
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