Isabella Rossellini AND Shigeru Umebayashi will receive the Award for Excellence during the eighteenth Rome Film Festival, which will take place from 18 to 29 October 2023 at the Ennio Morricone Auditorium Parco della Musica. This was announced by artistic director Paola Malanga, president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma Gian Luca Farinelli and general director Francesca Via.
Isabella Rossellini is a multifaceted nonconformist artist., daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini: The festival will celebrate her creative talent through meetings with the public and a retrospective of the works in which she was the protagonist as an outstanding director, screenwriter and actress. Along with some successes as a world-famous performer (from Blue velvet
David Lynch Death makes you beautiful Robert Zemeckis before Chimera Alice Rohrwacher), the public will be able to discover or rediscover her series about the animal world (Green porn, seduces me AND Mammas), combining brilliant irony and scientific rigor; I admire the documentary My dad is 100 years old Guy Maddin, which she wrote and performed in honor of the centenary of her father’s birth; a review of his television debut in Renzo Arbore’s L’Altra Domenica. Also among the planned works Stromboli (God’s Land) Roberto Rossellini, the director’s first film with Ingrid Bergman, and Autumn Symphony Ingmar Bergman, the last film starring Bergman. Also at the festival will be presented Season with Isabella Rossellini Marian Lacombe, a documentary film set between filming Chimera and Mama Farm, a regenerative agriculture company that Isabella Rossellini founded in 2013 in New York State and has been running for ten years with passionate determination.Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi. he is responsible for some of the most iconic soundtracks in the history of world cinema. His work, located at the intersection of Eastern and Western music, is unique, bright and intense. Thanks to his original and absolutely recognizable style, Shigeru Umebayashi collaborates, in particular, with outstanding directors such as Wong Kar-Wai (IIn the Mood for Love, 2046, Grandmaster), Zhang Yimou (Forest of Flying Daggers, Forbidden City) and Yuen Woo-ping (True Legend, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny). A much-loved author around the world, Umebayashi has also worked in film. lonely man
Tom Ford Hannibal Lecter – Origins of Evil Peter Webber and, in Italy, Roberta Torre (Black Sea) and Marco Simone Puccioni (Like the wind).Shigeru Umebayashi will be the main character of the meeting with the public; Film Festival viewers will also be able to rediscover some cult films such as In the mood for love.