FILM OF THE WEEK
INTERVIEW | Moretti and Tornatore top 2007 Nastro d'argento nominations |
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| Written by the editor | |
| Tuesday, 17 April 2007 | |
 Nanni Moretti's political satire Il caimano (The Caiman) and Guiseppe Tornatore's immigrant drama La sconosciuta (The Unknown) topped the nominations for the Silver Ribbons or Nastri d'argento, Italy's oldest film prizes awarded by the country's film journalists. Il caimano and La sconosciuta were both nominated in the Best Director category, with the former also grabbing a Best Producer nod (there is no Best Film category). Moretti's take on Italy under Berlusconi is further nominated in the categories Best Actor for Silvio Orlando, Best Actress for Margherita Buy (also for Saturno Contro), Best Cinematography for Arnoldo Catinari (also for L'aria salata/The Salty Air), Best Production Design and Best Sound. The awards will be handed out during the Taormina Film Festival in June.Tornatore's La Sconosciuta, which looks at the life and secret mission of an Eastern European immigrant in the coastal town of Trieste, further raked up nominations in the categories Best Script (by the director), Best Supporting Actor (Alessandro Haber, also for Le rose del deserto/The Roses of the Desert), Best Supporting Actress (Claudia Gerini, also for Viaggo secreto/Secret Journey), Best Costumes, Best Score and Best Sound. Should the director win, it will be a complete Tornatore party at the Taormina Film Festival on Sicily, which also dedicates its retrospective to the native Sicilian director this year. The other nominations in the Best Director category went to Marco Bellocchio for his Cannes entry Il regista di matrimoni (The Wedding Director); Saverio Costanzo for his Berlinale Competition film In memoria di me (In Memory of Myself); Emanuele Crialese for his Italian immigrant period drama Nuovomondo (Golden Door), which won the Revelation Silver Lion in Venice and Ferzan Ozpetek for his latest mosaic on love and friendship in Rome called Saturno contro. The films of Bellocchio and Ozpetek each had a total of six nominations including Best Actress for Donatella Finocchiaro and Margherita Buy respectively. Five nominations went to L'aria salata (The Salty Air), a prison drama; La guerra di Mario (Mario's War) a motherhood drama set in Naples and L'amico di famiglia (The Family Friend) a drama about avarice that played at Cannes last year. Four nomations each went to In memoria di me (In Memory of Myself), in which a young man enters a Jesuit novitiate in search of himself; Anche libero va bene (Along the Ridge), a dysfunctional family drama from and with Kim Rossi Stuart and Nuovomondo (Golden Door) in which Italian immigrants try to make it into the United States. In the category Best European Film, the nominees are the James Bond title Casino Royale from Martin Campbell; the Grande Chartreuse documentary Die grosse Stille (Into Great Silence) from German director Philip Gröning; the Cannes Golden Palm winner The Wind that Shakes the Barley from Ken Loach; Pedro Almodóvar's ubiquitous female drama Volver; Oscar nominee The Queen from Stephen Frears and the biting black comedy Adams æbler (Adam's Apples) from Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen. The full list of nominations can be found online here (in Italian). Related items: |
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