‘Vermiglio’ Director Maura Delpero on Winning Venice’s Silver Lion for the ‘Most Personal Film You Could Ever Imagine’: ‘It’s Really Magic’
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent For “Vermiglio” director Maura Delpero, winning Venice Film Festival‘s Silver Lion grand jury prize is a dream born from a dream.
The drama is set at the end of World War II in an Alpine village, where the arrival of a soldier causes disruption in the dynamics between three sisters. “Vermiglio” marks Delpero’s follow-up to “Maternal,” which takes place in an Argentinian refuge for teenage mothers run by nuns and made a splash on the festival circuit.
Venice jury president Isabelle Huppert praised “Vermiglio” for being a war story in which you never see war. “It’s like you have a great offscreen subject matter, but you get to see what’s going on only through a small eye, through the latch of a door,” she noted at a press conference.
Following its Venice bow, Delpero’s striking sophomore work is segueing to Toronto and has already been selected in a slew of other fests around the world.
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