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Italian Film Business Bounces Back With Production Percolating as Box Office Picks Up
Stronger box office, an Oscar nominee and emerging talent point to a strong Italian cinema sector.
In terms of film exports, Italy’s top seller is currently Garrone’s international Oscar-nominated drama “Io Capitano,” about the Homeric journey of two young African men, Seydou and Moussa, who decide to leave Senegal to reach Europe. Other Italian movies currently enjoying global visibility include Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera” in which “The Crown” star Josh O’Connor plays a British archeologist who gets involved with an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts. And Italy’s other 2023 Cannes competition title, Nanni Moretti’s “Il sol dell’avvenire” (“A Brighter Tomorrow”), a multilayered love letter to filmmaking in the age of streaming giants, sold well via France’s Kinology, scoring deals across Europe and Latin America.
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