Two Italian films will be vying for
the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival on February
15-25, artistic director Carlo Chatrian said Monday.
They are Piero Messina's Another End and Margherita Vicario's
Gloria!.
They will make their world premieres in Berlin along with the
other 18 films in competition, said Chatrian.
Another End, described by Messina as a "love story, which lives
in secret, like a secret of the body," has an all-star cast
including Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo and
Olivia Williams.
Gloria! is the first work by singer-songwriter Vicario and stars
Galatea Bellugi, Carlotta Gamba, Veronica Lucchesi together with
leftwing comic Paolo Rossi and 'surreal rock' veteran Elio of
Elio e Le Storite Tese.
Chatrian said the film "takes us back to the 18th century, to an
era when classical music was glorious but women were only
considered good as secondary performers".
photo: Bernal in Another End
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