Hosted at various venues around Melbourne, Lavazza Italian Film Festival will be open with the highly lauded drama from writer/director Paolo Sorrentino and staring Italian actor Toni Servillo, The Great Beauty. Closing the festival will be a 1972 classic, Fellini’s Roma, legendary director Federico Fellini’s tribute to Rome.
This year will see Clara Ponsot, a high-demand European actress, attend the Melbourne screening of Soimo and Nicole, a drama where she plays a seductive young Frenchwoman beside Riccardo Scarmacio.
Other highlights of the festival include Balancing Act (Gli equilibristi) starring Valero Mastandrea (Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy, Things From Another World), controversial love-story Alì Blue Eyes (Ali ha gli occhi azzuri), Cannes nominated Un Certain Regard film Honey (Miele).
