Earlier this week Variety premiered the official trailer and leading up to 2023 Locarno Film Festival world premiere of The Beautiful Summer (August 4th) we’ve got your exclusive first look at the poster one-sheet featuring the film’s paired leads in Yile Yara Vianello and Deva Cassel. Filmmaker Laura Luchetti (part of our “Off Set series”) landed on our radar with the TIFF preemed 2018 Fipresci-winning Twin Flower and for her third feature film, she took on La bella estate – a loosely-based adaptation of Cesare Pavese’s award-winning and very much beloved 1949 novel. Currently filming one of the episodes for Netflix-backed “The Leopard,” Luchetti re-teamed with Cassel on this series currently in production.…...
- 8/1/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
New York-based Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Italian director Laura Luchetti’s “Twin Flower,” a dark tale of two teen runaways that launched last year from Toronto’s Discovery section and has since screened at a number of festivals, including London, Busan and Seattle.
The film was sold to Film Movement by Italy’s Fandango Sales, headed by Raffaella Di Giulio.
Set in Sardinia, Luchetti’s standout sophomore work pairs two 16-year-olds: Anna, whose father reluctantly works for an immigrants trafficker, and Basim who has arrived illegally on the Italian island from the Ivory Coast. They meet and hit the road together across Sardinia’s sun-scorched countryside, escaping from a menacing pursuer.
“With this timely drama, Laura Luchetti not only solidifies her reputation as one of the top Italian filmmakers to watch, but also as a director who can elicit incredibly moving, naturalistic performances from young acting talent,...
The film was sold to Film Movement by Italy’s Fandango Sales, headed by Raffaella Di Giulio.
Set in Sardinia, Luchetti’s standout sophomore work pairs two 16-year-olds: Anna, whose father reluctantly works for an immigrants trafficker, and Basim who has arrived illegally on the Italian island from the Ivory Coast. They meet and hit the road together across Sardinia’s sun-scorched countryside, escaping from a menacing pursuer.
“With this timely drama, Laura Luchetti not only solidifies her reputation as one of the top Italian filmmakers to watch, but also as a director who can elicit incredibly moving, naturalistic performances from young acting talent,...
- 6/12/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Lff 2018 Twin Flower Review Twin Flower (2018) Film Review from the 62nd Annual London Film Festival, a movie directed by Laura Luchetti, starring Anastasyia Bogach, Kalill Kone and Aniello Arena. Twin Flower’s simplicity is a double-edged sword. It’s a respectfully moving depiction of the harsh lives of two youngsters from Sardinia. Writer-director Laura Luchetti wants to enlighten viewers about [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Twin Flower: A Potent Romance in a World of Too Much Pain [Lff 2018]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Twin Flower: A Potent Romance in a World of Too Much Pain [Lff 2018]...
- 10/12/2018
- by Deyan Angelov
- Film-Book
Italian helmer Laura Luchetti‘s coming-of-ager both pairs and juxtaposes the harshness and beauty of the backdrop with the realities of displacement, running towards and away from something and while I’m certain there could be comparisons made between Happy as Lazzaro and Honorable Mention for Fipresci Prize at this year’s Tiff for Twin Flower, this Discovery programme selection appears to be less allegorical. Our photo session with Luchetti gave us the following:…...
- 9/24/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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