Saverio Costanzo's new film
'Finalmente l'alba' (At Last The Dawn), presented in competitin
in Venice Friday, centres on the story of Wilma Montesi, an
aspiring actress whose grisly murder on a Rome beach in 1953
sparked a media feeding frenzy on alleged drug-fuelled orgies in
the Roman upper classes, and on the roaring years of 'Hollywood
on the Tiber' which climaxed with the 1963 movie Cleopatra
starring real-life lovers Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
"I tell the story of the cinema-dream and the actors, our
heroes," said Costanzo, known for his 2014 film Hungry Hearts
and for adapting and directing for TV Elena Ferrante's My
Brilliant Friend.
Also conquering the scene on the Lido Friday was an almost
always naked Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, a sort of female
Frankenstein brought back to life with a child's brain that
makes her "a very cute retard, the actress said in describing
the sex-discovering protagonist of Poor Creatures! by The
Lobster and Poor Things helmer Yorgos Lanthimos, also in the
running for the Golden Lion.
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