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Women Dominate Italy’s David di Donatello Awards: ‘Vermiglio’ Sweeps, ‘Art of Joy’ and ‘Gloria!’ Emerge as Big Winners
Women dominated Italy's David di Donatello awards as 'Vermiglio' dominated and 'Art of Joy,' and 'Gloria!' also emerged as big winners.
Women dominated Italy’s 70th David di Donatello Awards with Maura Delpero’s Venice Silver Lion winner “ Vermiglio ” taking top honors and Valeria Golino’s female empowerment drama “The Art of Joy” and Margherita Vicario’s directorial debut “Gloria!” also scoring multiple statuettes. “Vermiglio,” which is set at the end of World War II in an Alpine village where the arrival of a soldier causes disruption in the dynamics between three sisters, was the night’s big winner taking best picture, best director, screenplay, producer, cinematography, sound and the David’s newly introduced casting category. Golino’s “Art of Joy,” which is based on an epic, and highly erotic, feminist novel by the late Italian author and actor Goliarda Sapienza, took Davids for best non-original screenplay, best actress for rising star Tecla Insolia – who plays a woman named modesta who is born into an impoverished family in early 1900 and driven by a strong belief that she’s destined for a better life – and the non-supporting actress prize for Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
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