Mario Martone’s Cannes competition title NostalgiaIt has been chosen to represent Italy at the Oscars in the Best International Feature Film Category.
Based on Ermanno Rea’s book and written by Martone and Ippolita di Maio, Felice Favino plays Felice. She returns to Naples, where she discovers new codes and places, and faces a past which eats at him.
Francesco Di Leva and Tommaso Ragno are also included in the cast. Picomedia, Mad Entertainment with Medusa Film. It’s a co-production with Rosebud Entertainment Pictures. In May, the film was released by Medusa in Italy.
The film also marked Martone’s return to the Cannes competition section 27 years after his adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Truly a love storyIn 1995, he appeared on the Croisette. A native of Naples, he also screened The Scent of Blood in Directors’ Fortnight in 2004.
Deadline stated in a film review: “The Italian director splashes his teaming, boisterous, unruly native city of Naples across the screen in fulsome fashion in telling the story of a man who left as a teenager but, some 40 years later, is drawn back into its sinister embrace.”
These are the International Oscar entries thus far: