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‘My Place Is Here’ Directors Talk Women’s Rights, Poverty in Post-War Italy as Trailer Debuts (EXCLUSIVE)
Italian period drama 'My Place Is Here' is being released in Italy by Adler Ent. on May 9, and is being sold at Cannes by Beta Cinema.
The film is particularly relevant now, Porto says, because of the rise of the right-wing in Italy, as well as other countries, which is threatening to force back women’s rights, in particular their access to abortion. Another aspect of the film is its depiction of poverty and a lack of opportunity in Southern Italy in that period, when hunger was common, and illiteracy kept people from improving their chances in life. The inspiration for the film’s depiction of Lorenzo was Marcello Mastroianni in “Una giornata particolare” by Ettore Scola, where he plays a gay man as “elegant, decent and full of dignity,” Bortone says.
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