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Taormina To Fete Monica Bellucci With Special Award To Mark ‘Malèna’ 25th Anniversary
Taormina To Fete Monica Bellucci With Special Award To Mark ‘Malèna’ 25th Anniversary Award
EXCLUSIVE: Taormina Film Festival will present Monica Bellucci with a Special International Award and celebrate the 25th anniversary of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Sicily-set drama Malèna in which she starred, at its upcoming edition later this month. The 2000 World War Two-set romantic drama stars Bellucci as a woman living on her own in a small Sicilian town, while her husband is away fighting, whose beauty and sensuality raises suspicion among the other townspeople. Taormina described Bellucci as one of the “most famous and fascinating icons of Italian and international cinema”, praising her “magnetic charisma, her innate elegance and a unique expressive intensity” and highlighting her credits such as The Passion of the Christ, Irreversible and Spectre.
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