Emanuele Crialese, 58, director of the cult film Respiro (Critics’ Week Award at Cannes in 2002) was born in Rome to Sicilian parents, studied at NYU and made his debut with Once We Were Strangers in 1997. Before that, he had already transitioned from female to male, from Emanuela to Emanuele.
Respiro was a success in France and then worldwide, and Crialese followed it up, four years later, with Golden Door, which took the Revelation Silver Lion award in Venice in 2006. Five years after that, Crialese’s Terraferma won Venice’s special jury prize. Now, a decade later, Crialese is back with L’Immensità, an autobiographical story set in 1970s Rome of a child who does not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. The child’s mother is played by a magnificent Penelope Cruz, the father by Crialese’s alter-ego, Vincenzo Amato. After last year’s Venice premiere, L’Immensità screened at...
Respiro was a success in France and then worldwide, and Crialese followed it up, four years later, with Golden Door, which took the Revelation Silver Lion award in Venice in 2006. Five years after that, Crialese’s Terraferma won Venice’s special jury prize. Now, a decade later, Crialese is back with L’Immensità, an autobiographical story set in 1970s Rome of a child who does not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. The child’s mother is played by a magnificent Penelope Cruz, the father by Crialese’s alter-ego, Vincenzo Amato. After last year’s Venice premiere, L’Immensità screened at...
- 6/2/2023
- by Concita De Gregorio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Tuesday, a new development was added to the decades-long mystery surrounding the disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl, as the missing girl’s brother met with a Vatican investigator authorized by Pope Francis to pursue the case wherever it may lead, regardless of the consequences.
Emanuela Orlandi, then 15, was a Vatican teenager who mysteriously vanished on her way home from a flute lesson on June 22, 1983. Her family were residents of Vatican City, where her father was a lay employee in the papal household.
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Emanuela’s brother, Pietro, had been passionately fighting for a reopening of the case for some time. After several requests from him and the Orlandi’s family lawyer, Laura Sgrò, it was confirmed by The Vatican’s promoter of justice, Alessandro Diddi, that the case that has gripped the nation of Italy for years was back under formal investigation.
Emanuela Orlandi, then 15, was a Vatican teenager who mysteriously vanished on her way home from a flute lesson on June 22, 1983. Her family were residents of Vatican City, where her father was a lay employee in the papal household.
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Emanuela’s brother, Pietro, had been passionately fighting for a reopening of the case for some time. After several requests from him and the Orlandi’s family lawyer, Laura Sgrò, it was confirmed by The Vatican’s promoter of justice, Alessandro Diddi, that the case that has gripped the nation of Italy for years was back under formal investigation.
- 4/12/2023
- by Joshua Spielman
- Uinterview
Netflix has announced high-profile Italian original documentary series “Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi,” written and directed by Britain’s Mark Lewis, who won an Emmy for the docu-series “Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer.”
The streaming giant has also dropped a trailer for the docuseries, produced by British TV production company Raw. The show will premiere globally on Netflix on Oct. 20.
The series is the latest probe into a case that started on June 22, 1983, when Emanuela Orlandi, a 15 year-old girl living in Vatican City, disappeared under mysterious circumstances that are believed to have involved the Vatican. The case made headlines around the world.
Orlandi vanished on her way home from a music lesson. Since then her family and investigators have struggled to solve the mystery. Various theories have linked the girl’s presumed abduction to intrigue involving secret services of various countries, the Italian mob, and the Vatican,...
The streaming giant has also dropped a trailer for the docuseries, produced by British TV production company Raw. The show will premiere globally on Netflix on Oct. 20.
The series is the latest probe into a case that started on June 22, 1983, when Emanuela Orlandi, a 15 year-old girl living in Vatican City, disappeared under mysterious circumstances that are believed to have involved the Vatican. The case made headlines around the world.
Orlandi vanished on her way home from a music lesson. Since then her family and investigators have struggled to solve the mystery. Various theories have linked the girl’s presumed abduction to intrigue involving secret services of various countries, the Italian mob, and the Vatican,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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