On August 24, “La bella Estate” based on the novel by Cesare Pavese will hit theaters – PiemonteTopNews

The film will be released in theaters on August 24. beautiful summer based on the novel by Cesare Pavese, directed by Laura Luchetti, author twin flower, a film that earned him a special mention at the Toronto Film Festival. Filmed almost exclusively in Piedmont (between Turin, Avigliana and Carignano lakes). beautiful summer The premiere took place on August 4 last year, at the same time as the 75th Locarno Film Festival, and will be distributed in Italian cinemas by Lucky Red. The cast includes young performers led by the protagonists Yile Yara Vianello (Celestial Body, Peacock Paradiseseries nude directed by Luchetti herself) and the new Virgo Cassel, born in 2004, daughter of Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci. Together with them, Nicolas Mopa (Sea, professor

), Alessandro Piavani (Gucci House Block 181), Adrian Dewitt (Opera, Balenciaga), Cosima Centurioni, Gabriele Graham Gasco, with special contributions from Anna Bellato and Andrea Bosca.

beautiful summer this is a great coming-of-age story, a piece of literature that examines and explores the moment of transition from adolescence to adulthood. Cesare Pavese manages to do this in the late 1940s, with a startlingly unfeminine sensibility, narrating the bonds of friendship between two young women, a worker and a model, who seem to have nothing in common but who, in fact, they share the same anxiety and indecision about what the future holds for them. More than seventy years later, the forty-nine-year-old Roman director collects Pavese’s so-modern proposals and filters them through the narrative power of close-up and very close-up.

As for the novel beautiful summer it was written by Pavese in 1940, but first published in 1949 (a year before the author’s suicide) in a volume that contained two other short novels: devil in the mountains

(1948), e Among lonely women (1949). With this collection, Pavese received the Strega Prize in 1950. From the same collection, Michelangelo Antonioni adapted the story in 1955. Among lonely women to the cinema FriendsWinner of the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Other story, devil in the mountainsinstead, I will be a 1985 TV movie directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. beautiful summer it was the only one of the three stories that had not yet had a film adaptation.

The action takes place in Turin in 1938. Ginia (Ile Vianello) is sixteen years old: the future seems to offer her endless possibilities, but the shadows of the Second World War hang over the present, and not only over her. A teenager, like everyone else, wants to fall in love and finds his man in a young artist. Lead her to the discovery of the artistic circles of Turin. Bohemian this is Amelia (Virgo Cassel, in her debut on camera), a sensual and provocative girl a little older than her, but different from all the people she has ever known in her life and ready to shake her confidence. Torn between a sense of duty and the discovery of a desire that confuses her, Genia is overwhelmed by emotions she dares not name. During her “beautiful summer”, she finally gives in to her feelings, celebrating the courage to be herself.

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