Paolo Taviani On New Film ‘Leonora Addio,’ Sold By Italy’s Fandango in Toronto (EXCLUSIVE)

, of revered filmmaking duo the Taviani brothers, is back behind the camera — this time without his brother Vittorio, who died in 2018.

Co-produced by Donatella Palermo’s Stemal Entertainment and Rai Cinema with France’s Les Films d’Ici, “Leonora” started a first leg of principal photography late last year. Shooting was subsequently interrupted by COVID-19, but is now expected to wrap in October.The Taviani brothers previously drew from Pirandello for their 1984 drama “Kaos.” This film draws from a Pirandello novella titled “Il Chiodo” “that inspired me by how surreal and grotesque it is,” Paolo Taviani said.

The complex narrative interweaves a tale of three surreal Pirandello funerals with the story of the murder of a young Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn, inspired by the novella “Il Chiodo” which was published shortly before Pirandello’s death. The film’s cast comprises Fabrizio Ferracane, who recently won a David di Donatello award for his role in Marco Bellocchio’s “The Traitor,” prominent stage and screen actor Massimo Popolizio, and several child actors who Taviani said “are amazing.”Taviani said one component of the film involves archive materials tracing Italian history through the decades from the 1940s onwards, and also clips from Italian cinema classics celebrating the post-war golden era of Italian cinema.

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