ITALIAN CINEMA REVIVAL

Italian cinema is presently enjoying a revival with theatre audiences and international coverage similar to those enjoyed during the times of masters like Fellini, Bertolucci, Rossini etc. .

The present success was crowned at the recent Golden Globe nominations, voted by the Italian Foreign Press Association, and awarded in a glittering ceremony in the gardens of Villa Massimo, seat of the German Academy in Rome.

Uncontested winners of the top awards were two nonconventional films: Paola Cortellesi's international hit “C'e Ancora Domani” (“There's Still Tomorrow”) set in the grim years in Rome after WW11 and filmed (surprisingly) in black & white, and “Io, il Capitano” by Matteo Garrone, starring two young Senegalese actors who risk the perilous immigrants' journey to Italy over the desert and speak their own language (Wolof) throughout .

A long list of other prize winners involved many celebrated film makers, as well as actors and actresses, set designers and documentary producers. The prestigious 2024 Golden Globe for the Career was awarded to Monica Bellucci.

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